Here are the final results of the european championships. In the Elite Men class it was Thomas Allier who made the best overall score and in the Junior Men class Yvan Lapraz won the European Challenge. Click the excel icon to download the results.

I found some nice pics of the track where the finals of the European Championship is being held. Click here to watch.

Here are the results of the European championships after 4 rounds.

ELITE MEN
1. Thomas ALLIER - FRA [140 pts], 2. Henrik BALTERZEN - DEN [108 pts], 3. Maris STROMBERGS - LAT [105 pts], 4. Rob VAN DEN WILDENBERG - NED [101 pts], 5. Pablo GUTIERREZ - FRA [93 pts], 5. Arturs MATISONS - LAT [93 pts], 5. Ivo VAN DER PUTTEN - NED [93 pts], 8. Thomas HAMON - FRA [89 pts]
ELITE WOMEN
1. Laëtitia LE CORGUILLE - FRA [117 points], 2. Aneta HLADIKOVA - CZE [80 points], 3. Willy KANIS - NED [ 79 points], 4. Jana HORAKOVA - CZE [66 pts], 5. Blandine COTTEREAU - FRA [66 pts], 6. cécile LAZZAROTTO - FRA [55 pts], 7. Amélie DESPEAUX - FRA [53 pts], 8. Cyrielle CONVERT - FRA [49 pts]
JUNIOR MEN
1. Yvan LAPRAZ - SUI [144 pts], 2. Vincent PELLUARD - FRA [104 pts], 3. Jan ŠVUB - CZE [98 pts], 4. Toms SKUJINS - LAT [97 pts], 4. Liam PHILLIPS - UK [97 pts], 6. Stepan TUMPACH - CZE [94 pts], 7. Olivier HENRY - FRA [90 pts], 8. Mike KALTOFT - DEN [86 pts]
JUNIOR WOMEN
1. Romana LABOUNKOVA - CZE [ 105 points], 2. Magalie POTTIER - FRA [96 points], 3. Joyce SEESING [92 points], 4. Eva AILLOUD - FRA [89 pts], 5. Manon VALENTINO - FRA [65 pts], 6. Dana SPRENGERS - NED [62 pts], 7. Regula RUNGE - GER [55 pts], 8. Gaëlle CHARPENTIER - FRA [51pts]

Here are the results of the junior and elite class of the european championships at Habay-La-Neuve.

Saturday

ELITE MEN
1. Henrik BALTERSEN (DAN), 2. Arthur MATISSON (LAT), 3. Michal PROKOP (CZE), 4. Arnaud DUBOIS (BEL), 5 Mathieu DESPEAUX (FRA), 6. Thomas HAMON (FRA), 7. Martijn SCHERPEN (NED), 8. Maris STROMBERGS (LAT)
ELITE WOMEN
1. Shanaze READE (GB), 2. Laëtitia LE CORGUILLE (FRA), 3. Jana HORAKOVA (CZE) , 4. Anne Caroline CHAUSSON (FRA), 5. Aurélia DON (FRA), 6. Aneta HLADIKOVA (CZE), 7. Joanne GOUGH (GB), Sarah WALKER (NZ)
JUNIOR MEN
1. Yvan LAPRAZ (SUI), 2. Stephan TUMPACH (CHZ), 3. Kristaps KONRADS (LAT), 4. Liam PHILLIPS (GB), 5. Florian DUHAMEL (FRA), 6. Vincent PELLUARD (FRA), 7. ???, 8. Mike KALTOFT (DAN)
JUNIOR WOMEN
1. Magalie POTTIER (FRA), 2. Eva AILLOUD (FRA), 3. Joyce SEESING (NED), 4. Romana LABOUNKOVA (CHZ), 5. Dana SPRENGERS (NED), 6. Gaëlle CHARPENTIER (FRA), 7. Lieke KLAUS (NED), 8. Manon VALENTINO (FRA)

Sunday

ELITE MEN
1. Thomas ALLIER (FRA), 2. Roger RINDERKNECHT (SUI) , 3. Arthur MATISSON (LAT), 4. Ivo VAN DER PUTTEN (NED), 5. Arnaud DUBOIS (BEL), 6. Kelvin BATEY (ENG), 7. Rob VAN DEN WILDENBERG (NED), 8. Pablo Gutierrez (FRA)
ELITE WOMEN
1. Laëtitia LE CORGUILLE (FRA), 2. Sarah WALKER (NZ), 3. Blandine COTTEREAU (FRA) , 4. Aneta HLADIKOVA (CZE), 5. Anne Caroline CHAUSSON (FRA), 6. Amélie DESPEAUX (FRA), 7. Cécile LAZZAROTTO (FRA), 8. Shanaze READE (GB)
JUNIOR MEN
1. Yvan LAPRAZ (SUI), 2. Olivier HENRY (FRA), 3. Thomas ZESCHAN (FRA), 4. Toms SKUJINS (LAT), 5. Kaspars ERNSTSONS (LAT), 6. Kenny VERSTREPEN (BEL), 7. Anthony POTTIER (BEL), 8. Toms MANKUS ( LAT)
JUNIOR WOMEN
1. Romana LABOUNKOVA (CHZ), 2. Eva AILLOUD (FRA), 3. Joyce SEESING (NED), 4. Manon VALENTINO (FRA), 5. Regula RUNGE (GER), 6. Dana SPRENGERS (NED), 7. Lucie CROZET (FRA), 8. Jenny FAHNDRICH (SUI)

This weekend round 1 and 2 of the European championships will take place in Belgium. BMXgalaxy will host the event. For more info go to www.BMXgalaxy2007.be

The best bikers of the world will compete in Juan Carlos I Auditory the 13th and 14th of April.

This sport, inspired by motocross, will be olympic in 2008.

Extreme sports lovers will have an mandatory appointment this mid April with the first round of the BMX Supercross World Cup, sponnsored by UCI. The Juan Carlos I Auditory will hold this spectacular competition, in which all the best riders of the world will take part. An incredible show of ligths, and music will complete this espectacular event. The best urban music, hip hop, Freestyle exhibitions, Bike Trial and Half Pipe will amuse everybody between rounds. The competition will take place in a dirt track especially designed for this event.

Madrid will be the first round of the BMX Supercross World Cup calendar, an adaptation of superocross to the cycling wolrd, a discipline that will be olympic in Pekin 2008. The competition format will be knock out rounds of 8 riders in a track with a great starting hill and full of jumps and banked areas to enssure the success of the show.

It will be the first time that Spain hostes a BMX supercross wolrd cup event, a new olympic sport that will for sure impress all extreme sport fans. For such an important event, the organization has chossen the Juan Carlos I Auditory with more than 9.000 spectators capacity with an easy and quick access by public or private tranportation.

BMX Supercross World Cup
13th and 14th of April 2007
Juan Carlos I Auditory (Avd, Capital de España, s/n) – Campo de las Naciones (Madrid)

Madrid will held on April 13th and 14th, the first round of the BMX Supercross World Cup, an exciting competition that has never been celebrated in Spain. The visitors will enjoy themselves not only with the competition but also with Flatland (tricks on the land) and Dirt Jump (freestyle jumps) exhibitions.

Click here for the bmx track with all the distances.

UCI is pleased to announce the BMX track layout, which will be used for the XXIX Beijing Olympic Games 20-21 August 2008.

With the inclusion of BMX racing in the Olympic Games, UCI has been determined to present BMX racing in a new exciting format, with a unique purpose build track for the very best BMX athletes in the world.

The track features a massive 8 meter high starting ramp, including two separate straight-aways for Men and Women. The track will be slightly downhill with a length of app. 370 meter for Men and 350 meters for Women. Rider will complete one run in less than 35 seconds.

This article is an excerpt from the book BMX Training: A Scientific Approach.

by M. Doug McGuff, M.D.
BMX is probably one of the most demanding and complicated sports in existence. As a result, it is very difficult to set up a proper training program. As we shall see later, training for one element of the sport can result in harming another element of your performance (training for the endurance to make it through 16 motos per day can also rob you of the power you need for a good gate start). Let us take a look at the general characteristics that can define any sport, and see how hard it is to chategorize BMX. (Source ultimate-exercise.com)

The early years
Kuwahara was founded in Osaka, Japan in 1918 by Sentaro Kuwahara. It was a family run business with help from his wife and eight children that made and sold bicycles and bike parts at first in his neighborhood, then growing and expanding more. In 1925 Kuwahara began to export bicycles and parts to Russia, China and Southeast Asia. Kuwahara closed their doors for business temporarily from 1940 till 1945 due to World War II. In 1947 Kuwahara reopened again for business and Sentaro Kuwahara became the first chairman of the board of directors of the first bicycle wholesale association in Japan. In 1959 the very first and small shipment of bicycles were delivered to the USA. Sadly in 1960 founding company president Sentaro Kuwahara passed away and his Son, Masao Kuwahara took over in his place. In 1962 Kuwahara sent it's first shipment of APOLLO brand sport (10speed or 12speed road racing) bicycles to Canada. In 1968 Kuwahara started exporting bicycles to the USA as private label bikes for other companies such as Schwinn, Takara, Puch, Concord, Apollo, Azuki and others. Kuwahara had never produced their own Kuwahara brand bike outside of Japan until 1972 when Kuwahara began developing BMX bicycles for the US, Canada, European and Australian markets. During the middle 1970's the BMX boom had started and Kuwahara was regularly exporting Kuwahara brand BMX's to these countries.

1979
In 1979 Takuo Kuwahara became the new (and present) President of Kuwahara. He started up a Factory Kuwahara BMX team each in The US, Canada, Europe and Australia.

Howie Cohen started Kuwahara distribution through Everything Bicycle, a distributorship that Howie himself started. Everything Bicycles coincidentally was located just around the corner from Wizard Publications, the folks responsible for Bicycle Motocross Action magazine.

Intense/Phantom/On-Trac sweeps first North American UCI Event in World Class fashion!

With several of the United States’ best riders on the team roster, it was to be expected that the Intense/Phantom/On-Trac squad would make their way to Boulder City, Nevada where the first two events of 6 UCI qualifying races for the U.S. squad were being held. The stakes were high as top scores were needed so the riders could earn the right to represent the United States at the UCI BMX Worlds in Victoria, Canada this summer.

With a limited number of positions open in each of the Challenge and Elite classes, all the riders were focused and ready to compete. When the weekend ended, virtually all of the dozen riders who took part found themselves in excellent positions early in the qualifying process and it is a certainty that the Intense/Phantom/On-Trac riders will play a major part in the American team’s bid to win this year’s world championship title.