Sasha Pardoe
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| Full name | Sasha Pardoe | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 January 2006[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle BMX | ||||||||||||||
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Sasha Pardoe (born 19 January 2006) is a British cyclist who competes in Freestyle BMX. She won gold at the 2024 European BMX Championships.
Early and personal life
[edit]From Stourbridge, she is coached by her father, Gavin, a former time trial road racer for Great Britain.[2] As a teenager she was in the Army Cadet Force.[3] In 2023, she was completing an apprenticeship to train as a chef.[2]
Career
[edit]She competed in the Freestyle Park for Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2022 European Championships in her major championship debut, and placed sixth overall.[4][5] That year, she finished second behind Charlotte Worthington at the British National Championships.[2]
Her second competitive senior international competition was the 2023 World Championships in Glasgow, in which she also qualified for the final.[2]
In July 2024, she became British national champion.[6] She won gold at the 2024 European BMX Championships in Cadenazzo, Switzerland in September 2024.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sasha Pardoe". ec2022. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ^ a b c d Thomas, Fiona (17 August 2023). "Teenage tricks: Sasha Pardoe is Great Britain's next BMX medal hope". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ^ "Spotlight: Sasha Pardoe". thebloombmx. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ^ "Sasha Pardoe enters BMX big time at European Championships". Stoirbridge News. 15 August 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ^ "Pardoe warns there is more to come in BMX final". Glasgow Times. 12 August 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ^ "REILLY AND PARDOE CLAIM NATIONAL TITLES AS BRITS ROCK THE TRACK". British Cycling. 26 July 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ^ "GB's Pardoe and Reilly win European BMX gold". BBC Sport. 21 September 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.