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Exequiel Torres from Argentina is training with us for a few weeks so I decided to film us train & hang out.

Euro cup in Zolder, two sessions in Papendal, to ride the track before the World Cup in June, it was fun.. very fun, we shot some footages, just enough to make a little edit... Hope you are gonna enjoy it!

This year eight UCI BMX Racing World Cup races will be held at 3 locations. Here the Dutch riders can score important points for the UCI ranking. Two of those World Cup competitions will take place at Papendal on 11 and 12 June. This is the 10th time that the organization of a World Cup is in the hands of Papendal. A UCI BMX Racing World Cup round will be held on both Saturday 11 June and Sunday 12 June. Friday is reserved for training. A new class has also been added: 'under 23', which means that 2 extra finals (U23 men and U23 women) have been added in this class on both days. This new class offers riders the opportunity to compete in the UCI BMX Supercross series without having to race the Elite riders right away. The format is the same as that of the Elite riders.

Results 2021 UCI BMX Racing World Championships, Papendal, Netherlands 22 August 2021.
Elite Women:
1 SHRIEVER Bethany GBR 35.110
2 BAAUW Judy NED 36.375
3 SMULDERS Laura NED 36.468
4 PAJON Mariana COL 37.315
5 REYNOLDS Lauren AUS 49.056
6 WILLOUGHBY Alise USA 1:37.122

The competent authorities of the Netherlands have confirmed that both the Elite and Junior races for men and women at the 2021 UCI BMX World Championships shall go ahead as scheduled on 21 and 22 August in Papendal. However, due to the current pandemic (Covid-19) linked to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the Challenge races for amateurs will be cancelled.

Still an expected 300 participants will race for the 2021 Elite Men, Elite Women as well as the Junior Men and Junior Women World titles that come with the UCI rainbow jersey. No Amateur classes, no U23, and no Master classes will be on the program for 21/22 August 2021.

How my normal training routine looks like at Papendal.

It's not easy organising an event these days. The Dutch BMX Race championships were brought back from a 2-day happening with 700-1000 entries, to a one-day event with 150 athletes in the top classes. No crowd was allowed access. Everyone had to sign a waiver to prove they weren't ill and wearing a mouth mask as well as keeping 1,5m distance was mandatory. Add a bit of rain from time to time and you would think it was a horrible day at the BMX track. But guess what, it wasn't

For some racers it was the first race of the year, and it's probably the only one this year. At least the only one with a title on the line. Just being together at an actual race is what people had missed. The vibe was positive and a lot of catching up was done.

Without a doubt the people at Papendal are a professional bunch. When they called for a press conference and we received the invite, it was time to get up early on the Sunday and head towards Arnhem for the showdown. At 9am, the big room at Hotel Papendal was filled with interested people. A wild guesstimate would say 70 people showed up indicating that it was time for BMX fans to come together after not much happening over the past 5 months. People from the city, the fastest BMX Racers from the Netherlands and the organizing committee of the 2021 UCI World Champs to be held at Papendal, explained the importance of the event and the struggles that Covid-19 is bringing in getting the job done.

Join us for a behind the scenes look back to Papendal 2017 with backstage riders interviews and, of course, all the action.

Due to the current pneumonia epidemic (Covid-19) linked to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) must announce that the next two rounds of the 2020 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup which were to take place in Manchester (Great Britain) on 18 and 19 April and in Papendal, Netherlands, on 2 and 3 May, will not take place on the scheduled dates. In line with its recommendations made last Sunday to organisers from countries identified at risk by health authorities, the UCI is fully supportive of the decisions taken by the British and Dutch organising committees to postpone the events based on directives adopted by their governments to counter the spread of the virus.