title: Merel Smulders
text: # Merel Smulders
  
  Merel Smulders (born 23 January 1998 in Horssen) is a Dutch BMX rider.
  
  ## Career
  
  She was the silver medal winner at the 2018 UCI BMX World Championships behind her sister Laura Smulders. Prior to this became junior World Time Trial Champion at the 2016 UCI BMX World Championships. At the 2020 Summer Games BMX Race she won the bronze medal.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  She is the younger sister of Laura Smulders, who won bronze in BMX at the 2012 Olympics.
  
  