Malene Kejlstrup
Danish BMX rider (born 2002)
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Malene Kejlstrup Sørenson (born 6 June 2002) is a Danish BMX rider. She was a European Championship silver medalist in 2023, and was selected for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Malene Kejlstrup (Denmark) during heat 1 of the quarter-finals of the women's under-23 event at Round 1 of the 2022 UCI BMX Racing World Cup in Glasgow. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 6 June 2002 Randers[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | BMX racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
Her father was a BMX rider and she started in 2012 after he took her and her brother along to a track. She studied for her Higher Preparatory Examination (HF) with a mixture of remote learning and classroom learning so she could compete internationally.[2]
Career
2022
She became European U23 champion in Dessel in July 2022 at the 2022 European BMX Championships. The following week, she became U23 world champion at the 2022 UCI BMX World Championships in Nantes.[3] In September 2022, she broke both elbows after a crash during training, and was out of action for a few months due to the subsequent operation.[4] In December 2022, she was given Denmarks oldest sport award.[5]
2023
She made the step-up to elite racing in 2023.[6] She was a silver medalist in the elite women's race at the 2023 European BMX Championships in Besançon, France.[7] She competed at the 2023 World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, but crashed out at the quarter final stage.[8]
2024
She was selected to represent Denmark at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[9]