Merel Smulders
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| Born | 23 January 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | BMX racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Merel Smulders (born 23 January 1998 in Horssen) is a Dutch BMX racing rider.
Career
[edit]She was the silver medal winner at the 2018 UCI BMX World Championships behind her sister Laura Smulders. Prior to this became junior World Time Trial Champion at the 2016 UCI BMX World Championships.[1][2] At the 2020 Summer Games BMX Race she won the bronze medal.[3]
She was selected for the 2024 Paris Olympics.[4]
She won the silver medal at the 2025 European BMX Championships in Valmiera, Latvia behind Beth Shriever but ahead of her sister Laura in bronze.[5]
Personal life
[edit]She is the younger sister of Laura Smulders, who won bronze in BMX at the 2012 Olympics.
References
[edit]- ↑ "BMX Cycling - Merel Smulders (Netherlands)". www.the-sports.org.
- ↑ "BMX rider Merel Smulders battles for Olympic ticket". 8 May 2021.
- ↑ Friday 30 July 2021 21:16, UK (30 July 2021). "Tokyo Olympics: Team GB's Beth Shriever wins gold in women's BMX racing | UK News | Sky News". News.sky.com. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "BMX'sters Veenstra, Baauw en Merel Smulders stranden op WK". nieuws. 18 May 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ↑ Stafford, Katie (12 July 2025). "GB's Shriever clinches European BMX gold in Latvia". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
External links
[edit]- Merel Smulders at UCI
- Merel Smulders at UCI BMX Racing World Cup
- Merel Smulders at Cycling Archives (archive)
- Merel Smulders at Olympics.com
- Merel Smulders at Olympedia
- Merel Smulders at InterSportStats
- Merel Smulders at The-Sports.org
- Merel Smulders at TeamNL (in Dutch)
- Merel Smulders on Instagram
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