Declan Brooks (born 10 July 1996) is a British Olympic bronze medalist winning cyclist who competes in Freestyle BMX.

Brooks was born in Portsmouth and attended Cams Hill School and would practise at the Southsea skate park. He won a bronze medal at the European BMX Championships in Valmiera, and a silver in the freestyle World Cup in 2019, and achieved a tenth-place finish at the 2019 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships, in Chengdu.

Declan Brooks

In June 2021 he was confirmed on the Great Britain team for the delayed 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. On 1 August he won the bronze medal in the BMX Freestyle.

Declan Brooks

Personal life

In 2017, Brooks appeared as a contestant on the ITV dating gameshow Take Me Out.

Declan Brooks

Contest history

2019 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships - Park: 3rd

2019 UEC BMX Freestyle Park European Championships - 3rd

References

1996 births

Living people

British male cyclists

BMX riders

Olympic cyclists for Great Britain

Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain

Olympic medalists in cycling

English Olympic medallists

Sportspeople from Portsmouth

European Games bronze medalists for Great Britain

Cyclists at the 2023 European Games

European Games medalists in cycling

21st-century British people