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Charlotte Worthington (born 26 June 1996) is a British cyclist who competes internationally in Freestyle BMX.
Worthington was born in 1996 and she only took up BMX seriously at the age of 20, and had been working full-time as a chef at a Mexican restaurant near Chorlton for three years when Freestyle BMX was added to the Olympics in 2017. Worthington was accepted on to the Great Britain Cycling Team programme in Freestyle Park and 2019 saw her win the inaugural British and European titles, before she became the first ever British woman to win a world medal in the discipline, taking bronze at the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in Chengdu behind Hannah Roberts of the USA and the Chilean rider Macarena Perez Grasset. She now lives and trains full-time in Corby, Northamptonshire, which is home to 'Adrenaline Alley’ skate park. She also trains at the Asylum skate park near Nottingham. In June 2021 she won bronze in Women's BMX Park at the 2021 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in Montpellier, again behind Hannah Roberts with Nikita Ducarroz in silver.
Worthington was chosen to be part of the UK's 26 strong cycling squad for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she will contest the BMX Freestyle Park.
Olympics Gold 2020 TeamGB BMX Freestyle |