Kye's Profile

Whyte's trajectory towards the very top of the BMX world was confirmed with a European championship silver and a world cup victory in 2018 and 2019

BMX racing has always been a family affair for Whyte who appeared destined for a career at the top of the sport almost from birth.

It is a path that has led to a European Championship silver medal in 2018 and a home World Cup victory in 2019, as well as selection for the delayed Tokyo Olympic squad in 2021.

But, given his pedigree, that should probably have come as no surprise. Whyte was introduced to the sport at the age of three at the legendary Peckham BMX Club in London where his father was a coach, his mother the secretary and his older brothers Daniel and Tre regularly competed.

After winning a host of British junior titles, he followed in the wheels of brother Tre and joined the Great Britain Cycling Team in 2017, the eighth member of the Peckham club to have reached those heights.

And in his first season of senior competition, his development continued, most notably in August 2018 when he held off French world champion Sylvain Andre to claim silver behind team-mate Kyle Evans in the UEC European BMX Championships in Glasgow.

The following year saw Whyte record his first ever UCI BMX Supercross World Cup victory in April 2019, fittingly on the Manchester track he now calls home, beating a field that included former world champion Andre.

Unfortunately, he was less lucky in that year’s UCI World Championships, held in Heusden-Zolder in Belgium, when Whyte was caught behind a crash in an incident which saw him drop to fifth place, one place lower than he had finished in the UEC European Championships in Valmeira, Latvia, earlier in July.

The original Olympic year of 2020 opened with Whyte picking up a second-place finish in the UCI BMX World Cup in Bathurst, Australia, before the Covid-19 pandemic brought the season to a close.

But May 2021 saw the young rider return to World Cup action with a fourth in Verona, Italy, as he continued his preparations for Tokyo.

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