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23rd Feb 2015
Success for British Cycling at ethnic diversity sports awards
British Cycling enjoyed success at the inaugural British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on Saturday 21st February.
Breeze champion Maryam Amatullah, one of three British Cycling nominees to be shortlisted, won the Unsung Hero category for her work in Leicester where she encourages women from all backgrounds to take up cycling.
Breeze is British Cycling’s programme to get more women into riding bikes for fun and is supported by a network of over a thousand female volunteers known as Breeze champions.
The BEDSA awards were the first of an annual ceremony celebrating excellence among black, asian and minority ethnic sports men and women and were attended by Minister for Sport, Tourism and Equalities, Helen Grant MP.
British Cycling sprint star Kian Emadi was nominated for Sportsman of the Year alongside Adam Gemili and Moeen Ali. Kian was nominated after a year which saw him win his first medal on the international stage, after winning silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow alongside Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes.
Peckham BMX club was nominated in the Community Sports Project Category, which has seen thousands of young people inspired to take up BMX though British Cycling’s industry-supported Go-Ride programme.
Breeze champion Maryam Amatullah, one of three British Cycling nominees to be shortlisted, won the Unsung Hero category for her work in Leicester where she encourages women from all backgrounds to take up cycling.
Breeze is British Cycling’s programme to get more women into riding bikes for fun and is supported by a network of over a thousand female volunteers known as Breeze champions.
The BEDSA awards were the first of an annual ceremony celebrating excellence among black, asian and minority ethnic sports men and women and were attended by Minister for Sport, Tourism and Equalities, Helen Grant MP.
British Cycling sprint star Kian Emadi was nominated for Sportsman of the Year alongside Adam Gemili and Moeen Ali. Kian was nominated after a year which saw him win his first medal on the international stage, after winning silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow alongside Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes.
Peckham BMX club was nominated in the Community Sports Project Category, which has seen thousands of young people inspired to take up BMX though British Cycling’s industry-supported Go-Ride programme.
