This feels like a medal for all South Americans. Find free bmx bicycles for sale with a large selection of new and used bicycles at Local Bike Trader. “The first medal was incredible, but the second medal was more emotional,” she said. 30 April 2016: Free Agent BMXs Two-time Olympic Gold medalist Maris Strombergs (81) during USA BMXs Mile High Nationals at Grand Valley BMX in Grand.
Colombia selected her to be the flag-bearer for the country during the opening ceremony at the 2012 Summer Games in London. She will have her eyes on an Olympic medal in Tokyo. In her latest world championship outing, she placed fourth in Montpellier. That same year, she was invited to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Youth Camp so she could prepare for the next Olympics. One of two USA competitors in the BMX freestyle final, 26-year-old Perris Benegas will be hoping to return to the top of the podium, after claiming gold at the 2018 Urban Cycling World Championships. Although KHS' main focus has been in mountain bikes, it has offerings in road bikes, folding bikes, tandem bikes, cruiser bikes (under the Manhattan brand name), single speed bikes and BMX bikes (under the FreeAgent brand name). In 20, she won the Colombian Junior Sports Woman of the Year award. KHS Bicycles is a bicycle manufacturer founded in 1974 with main operations in the United States and Taiwan.Its bicycles are distributed in over 30 countries. The daughter and sister of two BMX riders, Pajón began racing at 4 and won her first world championship five years later. I think smiling and happiness is the best doping you can have.” “Sacrifice and hard work,” she said of how she achieved this level of success at such a young age at the news conference after the Rio race.
Since the 2008 Olympics, Bennett continued to ride for Free Agent and. So beloved is Pajón that a racetrack in Medellin, Colombia, is named after her. Bennett was a gold-medal contender in Beijing, but did not medal due to a dislocated shoulder suffered during the semifinals. Then 24 years old, Pajón is the only Colombian to win two Olympic gold medals, and she was born on this day in 1991. The Colombian BMX star’s celebrity helped fill X Park with masses of Colombians who turned out in yellow, blue and red attire to support their countrywoman as she defended her 2012 Olympic gold medal. While the remainder of the field quickly showed it wasn’t in the same league as the “Queen of the BMX,” Pajón gracefully made her way over every bump, hill and curve on the course. Mariana Pajón lifted her BMX bike above her head and broke out a huge smile after gliding to an easy gold-medal finish at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.