Sarah Walker (BMX rider)
Walker (right) at the 2007 Supercross World Cup
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| Full name | Sarah Louise Walker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Shazza | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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10 July 1988 New Zealand |
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| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team NZ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | BMX | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Racer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Off road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Sarah Walker (born 10 July 1988) is a New Zealand BMX racer of Māori and European descent. A competitor at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, she won silver in the Women's BMX at the latter event. Missing out on selection for the 2016 Summer Olympics due to injury, she was elected onto the IOC Athletes' Commission during those Games.
Walker was born in Whakatane in the Bay of Plenty, and grew up in nearby Kawerau. Of Māori descent, she attended Kawerau South School and Trident High School in Whakatane.
Walker took up BMX due to sibling rivalry; she wanted to be able to do what her younger brother could do, and do it better than him. In the 2008 season UCI Rounds, Walker won seven races, came second in one race and didn't race two races. She was ranked number one in the world by the UCI in 2008, and was one of the favourites to win the BMX women's event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, in the end she finished fourth. Walker has won a total of twelve New Zealand 20" titles from 1999 to 2011.
On 25 July 2009, Walker won the BMX World Championship in Adelaide, Australia in both the Elite Women and the Elite Cruiser Women events.
At the 2010 BMX World Championship in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Walker finished second in the Elite Women's event, with first place going to Shanaze Reade. A crash during the Elite Cruiser event meant that Walker was not able hold on to her 2009 championship title.
In 2011, Walker made the podium in three out of four World Cup events to win the overall World Cup title, winning the Papendal Supercross in the Netherlands, second at the Test Event in London and third in South Africa. The fourth event was in USA where she finished sixth.
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