Rebecca Petch
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Born | Te Awamutu | 9 July 1998||||||||||||||
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Discipline | BMX racing, Track cycling | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Rebecca Petch (born 9 July 1998) is a New Zealand cyclist who competes in BMX Racing and track cycling. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's BMX race. [1]
From Te Awamutu, Petch started riding BMX aged 3. At the UCI BMX World Championships she came 15th at Rock Hill in 2017, she finished 11th in Baku in 2018, and 25th in Heusden-Zolder in 2019.[2]
On 17 June 2021, Petch was selected in her country's Olympic squad as New Zealand's sole BMX rider for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Summer Games.[3]
Petch was a gold medalist at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the Women’s Team sprint competition.[4]
References
- ^ "Cycling BMX Racing PETCH Rebecca - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". olympics.com. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ "Rebecca Petch". Cycling New Zealand. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- ^ "Rebecca Petch overtakes her BMX inspiration to compete at Tokyo Olympics". Stuff. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- ^ "Two golds in an hour! Kiwi cyclists go on Comm Games medal blitz".
External links
- Rebecca Petch at UCI BMX Supercross World Cup
- Rebecca Petch at Olympedia
- Rebecca Petch at Olympics.com
- Rebecca Petch at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
Kategorien:
- 1998 births
- Living people
- BMX riders
- New Zealand female cyclists
- Olympic cyclists for New Zealand
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Te Awamutu
- 21st-century New Zealand women
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- New Zealand cycling biography stubs