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EDITION 54, SEPTEMBER 2014
Gordonvales’ Future World Champion? Gordonvale has over the years produced many stars on the sporting field, but none as small as pint sized Portia Eden, 6 years of age. Described by her school as softly spoken and amazing, Portia is a real competitor on the BMX track. In July this year Portia competed in the BMX world titles in Rotterdam where she crowned second place in the 7 year old division. Portia started her beloved sport BMX at the tender age of 2 and from there has been unstoppable, her love for the sport quickly developed into a serious obsession with riding. Because of this obsession, Portias’ whole family came on board to support her dream of going to a World title to see how she would go against other young BMX champions. In 2013 Portia raced her first World titles in New Zealand after taking out the Australian championships. Portia came home from New Zealand as World ranked number 3, so it was inevitable that she was going to go a long way in the sport, which gave her the drive to try again in 2014 and better her world number 3 achievement. After finding out that the 2014 World titles would be held in Rotterdam, Portias’ supporters started fundraising, as the cost to get her to Rotterdam was mind blowing, but with local support from a few wonderful businesses, Hindquarter quality meats, Supercuts, Cairns Hardware, Babinda Bakery, and the general public it helped make a dream become reality. Taking another step up the podium this year was amazing, especially as she raced against girls from what's known as the bicycle capital of the world. Her achievement in Rotterdam also means Portia has automatically qualified for 2015 BMX World titles, which will be held in Belgium. So it is back to fund raising to get the early bird flights to secure
her place in next years’ event. The Eden family would like to thank BP service station for their wonderful homecoming notice board message that bought a massive smile to Portias’ face. She couldn't have done it without the support of the community. Portia is already back in training for state titles and then Australian titles before taking on the worlds’ best again in 2015 where she hopes to bring home another world plate. We don’t want to put pressure on such a young talent, so whatever the future for Portia in BMX we are very proud of your achievements to date and are proud to call you a Gordonvale product.
Cindy Barber BCom 58 Norman Street GORDONVALE Ph: 3040 2120
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