Sarah Walker


Country
Birth date
Age
10/07/1988 - WHAKATANE (NZL) 
24
Height
Weight
Gender
176 cm / 5'9" 
76 kg / 168 lbs 
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Sport
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RankEventYearLocation
Olympic Games
4Individual2008Beijing, CHN
UCI World Championships
1Individual2009Adelaide, SA, AUS
2Individual2011Copenhagen, DEN
2Individual2010Pietermaritzburg, RSA
2Individual2007Victoria, BC, CAN
3Individual2008Taiyuan, CHN
4Time trial2011Copenhagen, DEN
8Time trial2012Birmingham, GBR
SemifinalIndividual2012Birmingham, GBR
BMX Supercross World Cup
1Individual2011Papendal, NED
1Individual2010Frejus, FRA
1Individual2009Pietermaritzburg, RSA
2Individual2011London, GBR
2Individual2010Copenhagen, DEN
3Individual2011Pietermaritzburg, RSA
BMX Supercross World Cup (Ranking)
1Individual2011
3Individual2010
3Individual2008

Language(s) spoken

English

Coach

Ken Cools [national] (stuff.co.nz, 16 May 2012)

Injuries

She dislocated her shoulder at an April 2012 race in Oslo, Norway. (stuff.co.nz, 08 Jun 2012; 3news.co.nz, 24 Jun 2012)

Additional information

Start of sporting career
She took up the sport in 1999 aged ten. After two months she raced in her first ever national championship and won. (sarahwalker96.com, 30 Jul 2007)

Reason for taking up this sport
She tried because she was bored at one of her brother's races. (sarahwalker96.com, 30 Jul 2007)

Ambitions
To win a medal at the 2012 Olympic Games. (sarahwalker96.com, 04 Jan 2012)

Hero
Her brother, Matt. (sarahwalker96.com, 30 Jul 2007)

Most influential person in career
Her mother and father, and her brother for teaching her how to jump. (BMXStars, 27 Jul 2007)

General
BMX AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES
She says she was considering switching sports in pursuit of her Olympic dream, but when she found out that BMX was to be included in the 2008 Olympic programme she was ecstatic. "When I found out that it was going to become an Olympic sport, I was stoked. It's going to make BMX a bigger sport too - as it will now be recognised in more places and more people will actually know what it is. So there will be more money and more sponsors attracted and BMX will be bigger than ever." (sarahwalker96.com, 30 Jul 2007)

Previous Olympics

Beijing 2008


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