Guide: Great Britain Cycling Team at Sarasota UCI BMX Supercross World Cup

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Published: 4 October 2016

Great Britain Cycling Team’s Kyle Evans, Tre Whyte and Bethany Shriever will race in Sarasota, USA, at the final UCI BMX Supercross World Cup of the 2016 season.

Coming just one week after the fourth round in Rock Hill, South Carolina, racing takes place from Saturday 8-Sunday 9 October at the new addition to the world cup circuit.

Team

Kyle Evans and Tre Whyte make up Great Britain Cycling Team’s challenge in the elite men’s event with Curtis Manaton also racing for Britain.

Evans and Whyte both exited in the quarter-finals in Rock Hill and will be keen to get over that frustration with a strong finish to the world cup season.

Tre Whyte racing at the Rock Hill UCI BMX Supercross World Cup

Rio Olympian Evans, 23, has his best ever world cup result in Manchester earlier this year with second place and as one of the top-16 riders, will contest the time trial on Saturday before joining racing on Sunday.

Evans sits in tenth overall and has an outside chance of making the top three if he can deliver a strong result in Florida.

Twenty-two-year-old Whyte will have to quality his way through Saturday’s motos if he is to make it to Sunday.

Bethany Shriever racing at the Rock Hill UCI BMX Supercross World Cup

Junior rider Bethany Shriever performed excellently in Rock Hill in her second UCI BMX Supercross World Cup appearance.

The 17-year-old, a junior world time trial silver medallist, was just one place from qualifying for the elite women’s semi-finals and will hope to make that leap in Florida.

Shriever’s best world cup result to date came in her debut in Manchester, when she reached the semi-finals at the National Cycling Centre.

Venue

One of the oldest BMX tracks in the USA dating back to the 1970s, work to transform the Sarasota venue into a world-class supercross track began in October 2015.

The Sarasota BMX track