{"id":812405,"date":"2026-07-19T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812405\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:55:09","slug":"lucas-zhou-wins-canadas-1st-bmx-racing-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812405\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Zhou wins Canada&#8217;s 1st BMX racing world title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian teenager Lucas Zhou captured the junior men&#8217;s world title Sunday at the UCI BMX Racing World Championships in Brisbane, Australia, becoming the first Canadian to win a BMX racing world championship.<\/p>\n<p>B.C. rider improves on bronze medal from 2025 Copenhagen championships<\/p>\n<p>CBC Sports  \u00b7 Posted: Jul 19, 2026 10:35 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Lucas Zhou of Canada, right, competes during the 2026 BMX Racing World Championships at the Sleeman Sports Complex on Saturday in Brisbane, Australia.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784476509_900_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Lucas Zhou of Canada, right, competes during the 2026 BMX Racing World Championships at the Sleeman Sports Complex on Saturday in Brisbane, Australia. (Albert Perez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Canadian teenager Lucas Zhou captured the junior men&#8217;s world title Sunday at the UCI BMX Racing World Championships in Brisbane, Australia, becoming the first Canadian to win a BMX racing world championship. <\/p>\n<p>The British Columbia rider dominated the competition, winning every race from the opening round through the final to claim the gold. <\/p>\n<p>The victory comes one year after Zhou earned bronze in the junior men&#8217;s event at the 2025 world championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. <\/p>\n<p>With files from Cycling Canada<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian teenager Lucas Zhou captured the junior men&#8217;s world title Sunday at the UCI BMX Racing World Championships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-812405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}