Smulders beats Shriever to BMX World Cup title as Claessens wins Sarasota finale

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Nov 1, 2026
An Olympic bronze medalist,
multiple World Cup winner, Zoe Carson of Switzerland.
In three, it's your current world champion,
a four times world champion, an Olympic gold medalist
from Great Britain, Bethany Schreiber.
In two, on the podium in Changli,
European champion out of New Zealand, Lila Walker.
And in lane number one,
For the umpteenth time, 32 times, World Cup winner,
European champion, Laura Smulders.
Ready, watch the gate.
In Sarasota, Bethany Schreiber, Zoe Karsens and Laura Smulders.
It's Karsens, Laura, that's got the gap at the moment.
Smulders in two, Bethany Schreiber in three.
Karsens starting to open up just a little bit.
She's got lots of space in front of her.
Laura Smulders right on the cocktail.
Bethany Schreiber starting to pull up now.
Taylor Rufus, Lila Walker in it as well.
Here goes Karsens. Zoe Karsens in the lead now.
Laura Smulders in two, Bethany Schreiber in three.
What's going to happen here with Lila Walker?
Lila Walker's going to hit him.
50, Schreiber, that's going to be important for the overall.
It's going to be Klausitz, Smolensk, Lina, Walcott.
It looks like Everhardt in four and Schreiber in five.
Could that mean that Laura Smulders has taken the overall?
We'll have to wait and do the mathematics,
but right now it's all about Klausitz.
The Olympics bronze medal winner, multiple World Cup,
We'll be
right back.
It feels crazy
to win today,
yesterday I did
so much
so I was not very
happy but today
feels so good to win.
I did a semi-final, it was the first semi-final of the year
and I was really not happy and today I tried to do better and to win,
it was really incredible.
But now she gets to get the trophy from Mr. Norman Cairn from the UCI,
your winner's trophy for the Elite Women Overall Series winner of 2026.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
Yeah, that's crazy, so crazy, so proud of this one.
I've had such a good time this season.
It was a big battle with the girls
and it well came down to that last one and
I think there was a pretty cool final pretty cool
first straight real battle down the first straight
and well I thought Bethany was behind me in third
and I was only going to get her with one point but
unfortunately just not on the box but yeah it means a lot.
It's unbelievable. I'm so proud of her.
I'm super happy to be standing at the top again.
The sixth time sounds crazy, but I think this one is the best.
Laura Smulders, thank you very much. Congratulations.
Thank you, Al.
