Ten of the 13 Americans in this weekends BMX Supercross World Cup event in Papendal, including all three of the US women, reached the Sunday knockout rounds after advancing from qualifying. All of the top riders advanced, though not all comfortably. Shealen Reno took a DNF in her first of three qualifying runs but overcame the slow start with back-to-back second place finishes to qualify in the 15th of 24 spots to advance to the quarterfinals. In the time trial portion Alise Post had the second best time in the field of eight.

The best men in qualifying were Barry Nobles and Jeffrey Upshaw who each won two of their three qualifying heats and qualified in 9th and 11th. Tanner Sebesta was the last American to qualify finishing 37th among the 48 qualifiers. Tyler Faoro missed out on qualifying after finishing fifth in his final qualifying run having won his second run. Corben Sharrah finished eighth of the 16 time trial participants.

The rest of the event will take place on Sunday with knockout rounds leading to the hotly contested finals. The US has taken at least one medal in each of the first two events of the year and placed multiple riders in the final in both men’s and women’s competition.

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