Red Bull UCI Pump Track World Championships qualifier Australia

Jun 16, 2021

Written by Bart de Jong

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With 8 woman on the start list and one of them being Australia's top Woman BMX athlete Saya Sakakibara in the mix it was going to be some hot racing. Down to our final 4 riders the race between MTB’r Cassie Voysey and BMX’r Johanna Jephcott would come down to 3/100ths of a second to decide 3rd and 4th place with spoils going to Cassie Voysey.

The finals saw a bigger gap between a solid and smooth looking Annaliese Rokov and Top BMXer Saya Sakakibara, both having clean runs it was the experience and power of Sakaibara that would take top honours by just over 1.5 seconds.

Womans results:

1st Saya Sakakibara

2nd Annaliese Rokov

3rd Cassie Voysey

4th Johanna Jephcott

Mens Competions saw a good mix of MTB v BMX bikes in the field but it would be the small wheels and skills of the BMX riders who would take the top spot. MTB’r Coby Morton slipped rear wheel between the 2nd and 3rd turn and ended up on the ground giving the 3rd place trophy to Jaiden Bombski.

The finals had two BMXers line up with Kyah Elburn-Tabone setting the fastest time we have seen on the track during racing going just over 20 seconds with a time of 20.078. putting all the pressure on Jayce Cunning who would set a track record and go under the 20 second mark with a 19.801 clinching his own winner ticket to the world finals.

Mens Results: