Declan Brooks OLY (born 10 July 1996) is a British Olympic bronze medalist winning cyclist who competes in Freestyle BMX.
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| Full name | Declan Brooks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 July 1996 Portsmouth, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Freestyle BMX | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Brooks was born in Portsmouth and attended Cams Hill School and would practice at the Southsea skate park. He won a bronze medal at the European BMX Championships in Valmiera, and a silver in the freestyle World Cup in 2019, and achieved a tenth-place finish at the 2019 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships, in Chengdu.[1][2]
In June 2021 he was confirmed on the Great Britain team for the delayed 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.[3] On August 1 he won the bronze medal in the BMX Freestyle.[4]
Personal life
editIn 2017, Brooks appeared as a contestant on the ITV dating gameshow Take Me Out.[5]
Contest history
edit- 2019 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships - Park: 3rd
- 2019 UEC BMX Freestyle Park European Championships - 3rd
References
edit- ^ "Declan Brooks - Great Britain Cycling Team Rider Profile". Britishcycling.org.uk.
- ^ ""Crazy tricks, crazy air time, loads of spins, almost like gymnastics with a bike." Declan Brooks on freestyle BMX's Olympic debut". Sportsgazette.co.uk. 20 January 2020.
- ^ [1] [dead link]
- ^ "GB's Worthington wins thrilling BMX gold". BBC Sport.
- ^ "DECLAN BROOKS: Appearing on Take Me Out". Rideukbmx.com.
External links
edit- Declan Brooks at British Cycling
- Declan Brooks at Team GB
- Declan Brooks at the X Games
- Declan Brooks at Olympics.com
- Declan Brooks at Olympedia
- Declan Brooks on Instagram
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