WCMX (sport)

WCMX is a sport in which wheelchair athletes performs trick adapted from skateboarding and BMX, usually performed at a skatepark.[1] It was invented by Aaron Fotheringham.[2]

Wheelchair skater Delmace Mayo on top of a skate ramp

Overview

The sport has its own competitions and custom wheelchairs.[3]

History

The term WCMX, a mash-up of wheelchair and BMX,[3] was coined by Fotheringham.[4] Fotheringham landed the first wheelchair backflip and the first double backflip.[5]

UK

Lily Rice was the first person in the UK to land a backflip.[6] She won her first world championship in September 2019.[7][8]

The first WCMX meet-up in the UK was in early 2019.[9]

References
  1. http://ic.ufabc.edu.br/simposios/index.php?conference=EIC&schedConf=9EIC2019&page=paper&op=viewPaper&path%5B%5D=4113
  2. https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/original-series/detail/body/body-season-season-1/episodes/meet-aaron-wheelz-fotheringham-the-godfather-of-extreme-wheelchair-sports/
  3. https://www.newmobility.com/2014/01/meet-wcmx-riders/
  4. Our Lives: Defying Gravity, BBC1, 17 June 2020, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k592
  5. https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2014/01/18/wmcx-wheelchair-sports
  6. https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/18514126.wcmx-world-champ-lily-rice-features-bbc-ones-lives-series/
  7. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/disability-sport/51031189
  8. https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/17875465.lily-rice-manorbier-strikes-gold-wcmx-world-women-39-s-championships/
  9. BBC Newsround, "WCMX: 'I like when you go really fast'" https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47792219
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