Nice Britain’s BMX world champion Kieran Reilly moved nearer to his first Olympics after ending third within the first leg of the Olympic Qualifier Collection in Shanghai.
Reilly, who received the boys’s elite BMX freestyle park title in Glasgow final 12 months, turning into Britain’s first world champion within the sport, scored 89.28 to complete behind France’s Anthony Jeanjean (93.54) and Olympic champion Logan Martin of Australia (92.65).
The occasion in China, which additionally contains breaking, skateboarding and sport climbing, is the primary of two legs through which athletes may have the prospect to earn rating factors in the direction of Olympic quota spots, with the second occasion to happen in Budapest from 20-23 June.
Reilly’s third place gave him 41 out of a doable 50 rating factors whereas compatriot Jude Jones was fourth to provide him 38 factors, and Dylan Hessey twelfth.
Within the girls’s occasion, teenager Sasha Pardoe completed eleventh, one place forward of Olympic champion Charlotte Worthington.
Worthington is again in motion after she took a break from competitors as she struggled to regain her love for the game after her 2021 Tokyo win.
In sport climbing, GB duo Hamish McArthur and Erin McNeice are into Sunday’s boulder and lead finals however skate boarders Tommy Calvert, George O’Neill, Andy Macdonald and Lily Strachan all did not advance to the semi-finals of the park occasions.
Olympic bronze medallist Sky Brown missed the occasion with a knee damage however hopes to be match to return in Budapest.
