Declan Brooks
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| Full name | Declan Brooks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 July 1996 Portsmouth, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Freestyle BMX | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Declan Brooks OLY (born 10 July 1996) is a British Olympic bronze medalist winning cyclist who competes in Freestyle BMX.
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
[edit]In 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 (archive)
- Declan Brooks on Instagram
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