Buchanan third in Switzerland!

Rounds 7 and 8 of the European BMX Championship were held in Winterthur Switzerland over the weekend.

Having the recent World Cup held in Holland last weekend my coach Wade Bootes decided it would be good for the Australian team to stay in Europe an extra week, collect UCI world ranking points and get world cup level race competition.

The week in between these two events the Australian team spent three days training on the Copenhagen (Denmark) track in preparation for the BMX World Championships being held there in seven weeks time.

While we were there Sam Willoughby, Khalen Young, Luke Madill, Lauren Reynolds, Rach Bracken, Melinda Mcloud and myself ran a coaching clinic for roughly 60 local Copenhagen riders from all ages.

It was nice to come back to Switzerland again this is one of my favorite places in Europe.

The level of competition at these European rounds is very hard..with the Australian girls being here and Columbians it was World Cup racing without the Americans.

Day 1: I was riding good in my races leading up to the semifinal where I didn't have the smoothest lap and lost a photo finish for fourth qualifying spot for the final and didn't progress through into the final.

Day 2: The whole Australian team was feeling feeling pretty worn out after the last two weeks we have practiced and raced in Holland (where I made the shadow squad for the Australian Olympic team!) then rode for three days in Denmark then practiced and raced again in Switzerland.

I won all of my races leading into the semi final where I we drew four of the top five girls from the last World Cup in Holland.

I came fourth in the semifinal, progressing through to the final.

Mariana got out in the lead early with Magalie pushing me wide on the 1st turn I slotted into 3rd place. I almost passed Magalie on the last corner but couldn't quite pull it off and ended up with 3rd place on the podium :)

Results:
1st: Mariana Pajon COL
2nd: Magalie Pottier FRA
3rd: Caroline Buchanan AUS

The countdown has started to the BMX World Championships being held in Copenhagen Denmark in seven weeks time. Next stop for me America where I will compete in Rockford near Chicago in 2 weeks time... will keep you posted!

Source: http://www.unitriders.com/united-states/news-and-culture/blog/2011/6/8/buchanan-third-in-switzerland/index.htm

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