Hannah Roberts (BMX cyclist)

Hannah Roberts (born August 10, 2001) is an American BMX freestyle cyclist. She is a five time world champion in the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships and silver medalist in freestyle BMX at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Early life
Roberts was born in South Bend, Indiana. Roberts’ mother is Betty Roberts. Roberts grew up in Buchanan, Michigan where she graduated from Buchanan High School in 2019.

Roberts began riding BMX at age 9. Roberts entered her first BMX competition in 2012.

Urban World Championships
In 2017, Roberts competed in Chengdu, China at the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships where she won gold and became world champion. After earning bronze in 2018, Roberts won her second BMX world title in 2019 and a third world title in 2021.

Olympics
Roberts became the first American to qualify in BMX freestyle for the 2020 Summer Olympics, for the first Olympics the event would be included Going into the event, Roberts was seeded first and was a favorite to win. She had the highest score in the first round with a score of 96.10. For her second run, she needed to improve to a score of 97.50 to win gold, but after a poor landing she stopped the run, accepting a silver medal.