Hannah Roberts (born August 10, 2001) is an American BMX freestyle cyclist. She is a five time world champion in the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships and silver medalist in freestyle BMX at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
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Early life
Roberts was born in South Bend, Indiana. Roberts’ mother is Betty Roberts. Roberts grew up in Buchanan, Michigan where she graduated from Buchanan High School in 2019.[1]
Roberts began riding BMX at age 9.[1] Roberts entered her first BMX competition in 2012.[1]
Career
Urban World Championships
In 2017, Roberts competed in Chengdu, China at the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships where she won gold and became world champion.[2][3] After earning bronze in 2018, Roberts won her second BMX world title in 2019[4] and a third world title in 2021.[5]
Olympics
Roberts became the first American to qualify in BMX freestyle for the 2020 Summer Olympics, for the first Olympics the event would be included[4] Going into the event, Roberts was seeded first and was a favorite to win.[6] She had the highest score in the first round with a score of 96.10. For her second run, she needed to improve to a score of 97.50 to win gold, but after a poor landing she stopped the run, accepting a silver medal.[7][8]
References
External links
- Hannah Roberts at Olympics.com
- Hannah Roberts at Olympedia
- Hannah Roberts at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (archived)
- Hannah Roberts at USA Cycling
- Hannah Roberts on Facebook
