Nikita Ducarroz (born 12 August 1996 in Nice, France) is a Swiss Freestyle BMX Olympic bronze medalist.

In 2019 she also finished fifth at the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships, fourth at the UCI Freestyle BMX World Cup and then won the 2020 BMX Simple Session in Tallinn, Estonia. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ducarroz was in lockdown at the Daniel Dhers Action Sports Complex training facility in Holly Springs, North Carolina. She won the silver medal at the 2021 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in the Freestyle BMX, and again in 2022.

Nikita Ducarroz

Early life

Born in Nice, France to a Swiss French father and an American mother of Chaldean and Sicilian descent, she grew up in Glen Ellen, California. At the age of 11, she began suffering from crippling anxiety which forced her to quit playing association football and attend online school. Her mother wanted her to pursue another sport. Through YouTube, Ducarroz found BMX.

Nikita Ducarroz

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1996 births

Living people

BMX riders

Swiss female cyclists

Sportspeople from Nice

Swiss people of American descent

Swiss people of Italian descent

Swiss people of Iraqi descent

Olympic cyclists for Switzerland

Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland

Olympic medalists in cycling

European Games competitors for Switzerland

Cyclists at the 2023 European Games

21st-century Swiss women

Nikita Ducarroz