BMX Champion Sarah Jane Nichols Comes Back To Racing 30 Years Later

BMX Champion Sarah Jane Nichols from the Uk came back to BMX racing after 30 years. She BMX British BMX Racing champion back in 1986 and left the sport on a high. Now at age 53 she’s back at again! She was featured on CBS Saturday Morning after she competed at this year’s UCI BMX Worlds. She came in 2nd place in the women’s 40&Over at the worlds

Huge congratulations to our British BMX Hall of Fame class of 2022 inductee, Sarah-Jane Nichols who continues to make British BMX history placing 2nd place at the UCI World Championships in Rock Hill over in the US this past weekend.

Let’s look a little deeper at her World Championships history.

Sarah placed 4th at the Jag World Championships in Burbank, California in 1983.

3 years later, we all know what happened at the IBMXF 1986 Slough World Championships with Sarah’s legendary race coming from last to first in the final to become World Champion in front of an amazing home crowd.

And now 38 years after getting back into racing less than 2 years ago, Sarah-Jane placed 2nd at Rock Hill, South Carolina UCI BMX World Championships in the 40 and Over Women’s Cruiser Class racing women 10 plus years her junior. An amazing result especially being out of the sport for over 3 decades.

Take a bow, Sarah-Jane Nichols.

~British BMX Hall Of Fame