After picking up her brothers bike at the age of three, Des’ree taught herself to ride unaided around the families back yard determined to ride on a BMX Track. From that day in 2005 Des’ree has been riding, training and racing, looking to make her own story for the history books.

In 2009 the UCI BMX World Championships were held in Adelaide South Australia, Des’ree’s home town at the time where She won her first Challenge Class World Title at the age of six. During this event Des’ree was given the name ‘Desi-Racer’ by the commentator, a name that has stuck and becoming well known in the BMX World. Since 2009, on a family promise, Des’ree has followed the World Championships across the globe achieving an additional Four World Titles.

Des’ree moved from Adelaide to Redland Bay Queensland when she was Seven (2010) with her family which was a blessing in disguise presenting some amazing tracks to ride and now with a World Class BMX Supercross facility at Sleeman Sport Complex. Sleeman SX Track is frequented and loved by Desi and just twenty minutes from home allowing her to hone her skills on one of the most technical tracks in the world

Des’ree Barnes is a seriously competitive individual and has been from a very young age whether riding her bike, running or just getting to the door in front of the next person. Although Des’ree has learnt how to win in her BMX career thus far, she also knows what it’s like to be beaten, a key element to the growth of any successful athlete.

Since 2010 Des’ree worked with her strength and condition coach learning the movements and skills to build a strong foundation as she grows. In addition to Des'ree's impressive BMX results she has also represented Australia for Olympic weightlifting at the Oceania and comm Championships in 2017, 2018 & 2019 with silver medals. Desree has also recently started track cycling and won the elite team sprint national title at the end of 2020. 

There is a fire that burns deep within ‘Desi-Racer’ that cannot be doused, her results, motivation and future goals are testament to this.

Des'ee is focussed on the following goals for 2021 :

• Compete at the BMX world championships first year elite.

• Qualify for comm games weightlifting.

Des'ree has a number of future goals which include :

• Compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics in BMX/ track cycling

• Compete at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Olympic weightlifting

RESULTS

SPONSORS

AMBASSADORSHIPS

Des'ree is available for the following :

• Ambassador roles

• Sponsorship and brand representation

• Guest speaking roles

• Sports modelling

• Photo shoots

• Sports blogging

• Charity roles

• School visits