Natalya Diehm

Natalya Diehm started in the sport at the age of eight years at a local skatepark on her ride home from school.

After missing the 2018 season after undergoing a fourth knee reconstruction surgery, Natalya soared in 2019, firstly winning the 2019 Vans BMX Pro Cup which featured events in the USA, Australia, Germany and Mexico.

Later in the year, while on her Australian team debut at the 2019 Urban World Championships in China, she finished sixth. 
In November, Natalya won the inaugural Oceania Championships before adding a maiden national title to her resume. 

In 2020, the Queensland-based athlete would retain the crown and despite a fractured wrist ahead of the 2021 National Championships, Diehm would stake her claim as the premier female BMX Freestyle rider in the country with her third straight Australian title.

National success would see Diehm named to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. However, two weeks before the major event, Diehm ruptured her ACL for the fifth time in her career. Amazingly, she still went on to compete and finished fifth in the final.

After sitting out the whole of 2022 as she underwent rehabilitation, the Queensland athlete came back with a vengeance in 2023 as she claimed a silver at the Oceania Continental Championships, gold at the national championships and fourth place at the UCI World Cup in Bazhong, China. 

At her second Olympic Games in Paris, Diehm won her first medal in a major international competition. After qualifying for the final in eighth place, her first run of 88.80 resisted all but two challengers. That performance earned her bronze, making her Australia's first-ever Olympic medallist in women's BMX freestyle.