On the hottest day of the year so far, 44 children from seven schools competed in the final of Bikeability Olympics 2025 at Sports Central, Milton Keynes.
The event was the culmination of Heat 1, Heat 2 and Heat 3, involving a total of 83 local children aged 9-11.
The children each participated in five contests, collecting a maximum of five points for their school from each contest:
- Bike Detectives
- Obstacle Course
- Pump Relay
- Slow Race
- Road Ride.
Two Mile Ash won the Gold School Trophy
with Glebe Farm and Bushfield taking Silver and Bronze respectively.
Results were as follows (full results here):
| School | Points |
| Two Mile Ash 2 | 73 |
| Two Mile Ash 1 | 65 |
| Glebe Farm | 60 |
| Bushfield | 53 |
| Broughton Fields 2 | 50 |
| The Premier Academy | 45 |
| Broughton Fields 1 | 43 |
| Caroline Haslett | 31 |
| Giffard Park | 29 |
The trophies and medals were presented by MK Mayor James Lancaster (centre below), supported by former Mayor Bradburn and Bicycling Youth Mayor Cody Jackson.
The trophies were designed and fabricated by Cycle Saviours from bicycle parts. Each of the school trophy winners will be presented with their engraved trophies at the start of the MK Peace & Unity Ride on Thursday 10th July.
Individual winners of medals in each event were as follows:
- Bike Detectives: Gold, Nataniel, The Premier Academy; Silver, Eric, Broughton Fields; Bronze, Lucy, Giffard Park.
- Obstacle Course: Gold, Dan, Two Mile Ash; Silver, Yusuf, Two Mile Ash; Bronze, Ayla, Two Mile Ash.
- Slow Race: Gold, Herby, Caroline Haslett; Silver, Iona, Broughton Fields; Bronze, Vignesh, Two Mile Ash.
- Pump Relay: Gold, Adam, The Premier Academy; Silver, Ayla, Two Mile Ash; Bronze, Luke, Glebe Farm.
- Road Ride: Gold, Meredith, Broughton Fields; Silver, Henry, Bushfield; Bronze, Morris, Broughton Fields.
All the children competed given the difficult conditions.
With thanks to Sports Central for hosting and MK City Council’s Bikeability instructors, who organised the Olympics, and Cycle Saviours for supporting.
(Photos by Cody Jackson, Ian McCormack, Maria Riding, Nicky Newlands. Videos by Ian McCormack.)