List of professional mountain bikers
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Professional Mountain Bikers
- Visionaries
- Charlie Peat
- Charlie Baggaz
- Keith BontragerKeith BontragerKeith Bontrager is a motorcycle racer who became a pioneer in development of modern mountain bike. Between 1980 and 1995 he was president of Bontrager Cycles...
- Gary FisherGary FisherGary Christopher Fisher is considered one of the inventors of the modern mountain bike.Fisher started competing in road and track races at 12. He was suspended in 1968 because race organizers cited a rule that his hair was too long. By 1972 this rule had been repealed and Fisher's career continued...
- Victor Vincente of America
- Charlie CunninghamCharlie CunninghamCharlie Cunningham is a mountain biking pioneer from Fairfax, California.With schooling in mechanical/aeronautical engineering, he rode a modified skinny tire ten speed bicycle up and down Mt Tamalpais, valuing nimbleness and gear selection over the ungainly 1930s ballooners then in vogue...
- John TomacJohn TomacJohn Tomac is a retired professional cyclist who competed in multiple disciplines in road racing and mountain biking during a successful senior career that spanned twenty years. He is regarded as a mountain biking icon and was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1991...
- Daniel Davey
- Ethan Collinson
- Matt " Mr Alex" Rogers
- James WardJames Ward- Sports :*James Ward , part-time footballer*James Ward , British tennis player*Jamie Ward , English footballer*Jim Ward , American football coach...
(Squeaky Horse Crew) - Josh Bairstow
- Sam Meath (Squeaky Horse Crew)
- Cross Country Racers
- Alison DunlapAlison DunlapAlison Dunlap is an American professional cyclist. She won the world cross-country mountain bike championship in 2001 and two Mountain Bike World Cup races...
- Juli FurtadoJuli FurtadoJuliana Furtado is an American mountain biker, who began her sports career in skiing. From 1980 to 1987, she was the youngest member of the U.S...
- Gunn-Rita Dahle FlesjåGunn-Rita Dahle FlesjåGunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå is a Norwegian cross-country and marathon mountain biker. She won the women's cross-country gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games and is a multiple World Champion. She has won six World Championships and six European championships. Dahle has also won four UCI World Cup XC in...
- Ned OverendNed OverendEdmund Overend , the son of a U.S. diplomat, started in mountain biking in the early 1980s. He appeared in "the world's first mountain biking video, aptly named, The Great Mountain Biking Video," released in 1988 by New & Unique Videos of San Diego, California...
(Specialized) - Paola PezzoPaola PezzoPaola Pezzo is a cross-country mountain bike racer from Verona, Italy.Pezzo won the female World Mountain Bike Championship title in both 1993 and 1997. In 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, in the U.S., she won the Olympic gold medal in mountain biking, when the event made its debut...
- Warren CarneWarren CarneWarren James Carne born 14 October 1975 in Bulawayo, Matabeleland, Rhodesia is a former Zimbabwean Mountain biker.-Early years:...
(huffy factory team) - Sue HaywoodSue HaywoodSue Haywood born 9 October 1971 is a retired professional mountain bike racer. She raced for team Trek Volkswagen along with notables Jeremiah Bishop, Travis Brown, Chris Eatough, Lea Davison and Ross Schnell....
- Mark WeirMark WeirMark Anthony Weir is an English mixed martial artist usually fighting in the middleweight division at 185 lbs. He has fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Pride Fighting Championships, and is the former Cage Rage British middleweight champion- Biography :Mark Weir lives in...
(Santa Cruz) - Cristoph Sauser (Specialized)
- Alison Dunlap
- Downhill Racers
- Fabien Barel (Mondraker)
- Adam Streather (Bexhill)
- Greg HerboldGreg HerboldGreg "H-Ball" Herbold is an american mountain bike racer. He was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1996.Greg Herbold won the first dual slalom race at Mammoth Mountain in 1987...
- Ethan Collinson
- Matt Rogers(Specialized)
- James WardJames Ward- Sports :*James Ward , part-time footballer*James Ward , British tennis player*Jamie Ward , English footballer*Jim Ward , American football coach...
(Squeaky Horse Crew) - Josh Bairstow(Santa Cruz)
- Sam Meath (Squeaky Horse Crew)
- Charlie Kelly (malvern star)
- Steve PeatSteve PeatSteve Peat , nicknamed "Sheffield Steel" or more commonly just plain "Peaty", is a professional downhill mountain biker who was born and lives in Chapeltown, Sheffield, England. Prior to his career as a professional downhill cyclist Peat was employed as a plumber by James Lamb...
(Santa Cruz Syndicate) - Nathan RennieNathan RennieNathan Rennie is an Australian professional downhill mountain bike racer. He started riding at the age of 5. In 2008, he became national champion downhill. He won a bronze medal in the downhill category at the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships in 2006...
(Morewood/BOS) - Chris KovarikChris KovarikChris Kovarik , is an Australian professional racing cyclist specialising in downhill mountain biking and four cross mountain bike racing...
(Nukeproof/Chain Reaction Cycles) - Tom RitcheyTom RitcheyTom Ritchey is an American bicycle frame builder, designer, welder and founder of Ritchey Design. He is an accomplished road and mountain bicycle racer.-Early years:...
- John TomacJohn TomacJohn Tomac is a retired professional cyclist who competed in multiple disciplines in road racing and mountain biking during a successful senior career that spanned twenty years. He is regarded as a mountain biking icon and was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1991...
(Tomac) - Jacquie PhelanJacquie PhelanJacquie "Alice B. Toeclips" Phelan was the NORBA Champion three consecutive years - 1983, 1984, and 1985.She is married to inventor Charlie Cunningham, the pioneering bicycle framebuilder whose aluminum bikes and patented brakes allowed Phelan to race unbeaten for six years...
- Nicolas VouillozNicolas VouillozNicolas Vouilloz is a French former professional mountain biker and rally driver.He won the Downhill Mountain Bike World Championships ten times, starting as a junior in 1992 and finishing his career with the his 10th victory in 2002, only placing lower in 2000 finishing 8th...
(Lapierre/BOS) - Jared GravesJared GravesJared Graves is an Australian cyclist who has represented Australia in BMX, 4x and DH mountain biking.In 2006, he finished second in the mountain bike 4x world cup series...
(Yeti Cycles) - Rob WarnerRob Warner (mountain biker)Rob Warner is a retired professional downhill mountain biker born in Reading, England.Before turning professional in 1993 Warner worked for 6 months at the Rover plant in Oxford on a production line building the Rover 800 series car...
- Shaun PalmerShaun PalmerShaun Palmer is an American professional snowboarder, skier, mountain biker, and motocross rider. "Palm Daddy" is known as one of the forefathers of extreme sports.-Early life:...
(Intense) - Scott BeaumontScott BeaumontScott Beaumont, nicknamed Boom Boom, is an English pro mountain bike racer, specialising in the disciplines of downhill and fourcross. He lives in Kidderminster.Beaumont was born on 2 June 1978, in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire...
- Anne-Caroline ChaussonAnne-Caroline ChaussonAnne-Caroline Chausson is a French Olympic gold medalist in BMX, and downhill time trial and cross-country mass start, dual, and four-cross mountain bicycle racer, best known for having won thirteen Union Cycliste Internationale senior world championship rainbow jerseys, fourteen continental...
(Turner) - Cedric GraciaCedric GraciaCédric Gracia is a French mountain biker.Cédric Gracia is a French mountain biker who now lives in Andorra. He started his career as an athlete at 6 years old as a BMX rider and then a freestyle ski pro. Cedric Gracia, years later, became a mountain bike rider...
(CG Racing Brigade/Santa Cruz) - Eric CarterEric CarterEric Robert Carter is a former American professional "Old/Mid School" Bicycle Motocross racer whose prime competitive years were from 1983 to 1998...
- Brian LopesBrian LopesBrian Thomas Lopes is a professional mountain bike racer who specializes in four-cross. Lopes started riding BMX in his childhood and turned professional at seventeen years old....
(Ibis) - Greg MinnaarGreg MinnaarGreg Minnaar is a South African World Champion mountain bike racer competing in downhill cycling. Greg first started to get noticed as a world class downhill racer at the age of 17, in 1999, racing select World Cups on a local shop team, aboard a Kona Stab Dee-Lux bike with a...
(Santa Cruz Syndicate) - Sam Hill (mountain biker)Sam Hill (mountain biker)Sam Hill in Viveash, WA, is an Australian professional downhill mountain biker. He was two time consecutive UCI World Downhill Champion during years 2006-2007 for Iron Horse racing team. . He won the 2010 world championships in Mont Saint Anne, riding for the Monster Energy Specialized team on a...
(Specialized/Monster Energy) - Johann Potgieter
- Sabrina Jonnier (Maxxis/Rocky Mountain)
- Michael Hannah (GT Cycles)
- Tracey Hannah (Orange)
- Tara LlanesTara LlanesTara Janelle Llanes was an American "Mid School" Bicycle Motocross racer whose prime competitive years were from 1990-1993. She later became a champion Mountain Bike racer...
- Ruaridh Cunningham (Intense/Chain Reaction Cycles)
- Matti LehikoinenMatti LehikoinenMatti Lehikoinen is Finland's leading downhill cyclist. His previous achievements include 2001 junior European championship from Italy's Livigno and top-ten placings in the downhill World Cup during 2002-2004...
(Intense/Chain Reaction Cycles) - Sam Blenkinsop (Lapierre)
- Aaron GwinAaron GwinAaron Holmes Gwin is an American professional downhill mountain biker from Morongo Valley, California. He is recently known for breaking on to the international World Cup scene after about 8 months of riding downhill...
(Trek World Racing) - Andrew Neethling (Giant Cycles)
- Danny HartDanny Hart (cyclist)Danny Hart is a British Downhill mountain biker who rides for the Giant Factory Off-Road Team. In 2011 he became the UCI Mountain Bike World Champion....
(Giant Cycles) - Justin Leov (Trek World Racing)
- Gee AthertonGee AthertonGeorge David Atherton, known as Gee Atherton is a professional racing cyclist specialising in downhill and four cross mountain bike racing, and is a multiple national champion, multiple World Cup winner, and 2010 downhill World Cup Champion.Since 2007, Gee has been one third of the Animal...
(Animal Commencal) - Dan AthertonDan AthertonDaniel Simon Atherton, known as Dan Atherton is a professional racing cyclist specialising in downhill and four cross mountain bike racing, and is a former national champion of Great Britain...
(Animal Commencal) - Rachel AthertonRachel AthertonRachel Laura Atherton is a professional racing cyclist specialising in downhill mountain bike racing, and is a multiple national champion. She began riding BMX at the age of 8 and mountain biking at the age of 11...
(Animal Commencal) - Robert BaileyRobert BaileyRobert Martin Bailey is a former American football cornerback who played eleven seasons for six teams, the Los Angeles Rams, the Dallas Cowboys, the Washington Redskins, the Detroit Lions, and the Baltimore Ravens from 1991 to 2001 in the National Football League.Bailey played college football at...
(Commencal) - Steve Smith (Devinci Cycles)
- Brendon Fairclough (Specialized/Monster Energy)
- Filip Polc (Evil MS-Racing)
- Páli Ákos Specialized/Red Bull
- Trials Riders
- Hans ReyHans ReyHansjörg Rey, aka Hans "No Way" Rey . Rey is a pioneer in mountain bike trials and extreme mountain biking. Rey began riding in the late 70s. Since 1987, he has ridden exclusively on GT bikes...
(GT) - Ryan LeechRyan LeechRyan Leech is a professional trials mountain bike rider. At age 14 he began racing cross-country mountain bikes, inspired by Team ORB. Leech began getting increasingly involved in trials riding throughout the mid 90's...
(Norco) - Neil Tunnicliffe (Echo)
- Danny MacAskillDanny MacAskillDanny MacAskill, also known as 'Danny MegaSkill', is a Scottish trials cyclist, from Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye. He is 176 centimeters tall and works professionally as a street trials pro rider for Inspired Bicycles Ltd. He released , a five-and-a-half-minute street trials video, filmed by his...
- Dylan Korba (Norco)
- Jeff LenoskyJeff LenoskyJeff Lenosky is an American world class professional Freeride and Trials Mountain Bicycle Rider.Among his many athletic high points is the world record for the Bunny hop, a high jump event using a full size mountain bicycle...
(Giant) - Libor Karas (Cannondale)
- Hans Rey
- Dirt Jumpers/ Freeriders
- Mike MetzgerMike MetzgerMike Metzger is an American Freestyle Motocross rider. In the 2002 X-Games he won the Freestyle and Big Air events and got second place in Step Up, earning him an estimated $100,000 in three days. In 2003 he also got first place in Big Air...
{Transition} - Andreu LacondeguyAndreu LacondeguyAndreu Lacondeguy is a professional freestyle mountain biker from Barcelona, Spain. He began riding mountain bikes at the age of 10 and is famous for being the third person to ever land a double backflip in a contest. He is also known for his wild personality and reckless riding style. His...
(Kona Clump) - Colter Lee
- Tal Haslam
- Brett Tippie (Rocky Mountain Bicycles)
- Ben Boyko (Norco)
- Darren Berrecloth (Specialized)
- Josh Bender (Karpiel)
- Wade SimmonsWade SimmonsWade Simmons is a mountain biker from Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada who has won the Red Bull Rampage Utah 2001 and placed second in the same year in the Red Bull Rampage Australia...
(Rocky Mountain) - Richey Schley (Rotwild)
- Steve Romaniuk (Mongoose)
- Chris Cheers (Charge)
- Kurt Sorge (Giant)
- Robbie BourdonRobbie BourdonRobbie Bourdon is a freeride mountain biker from Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. He is sponsored by Intense Cycles, Red Bull and Oakley. A former member of the Kona Clump Team, he has appeared in all the New World Disorder videos...
(Intense) - Lluis Lacondeguy (Kona Clump)
- Paul Basagoitia (Kona Clump)
- Brandon Semenuk (Trek)
- Alex Prochazka (Commencal)
- Dave WatsonDave WatsonDavid "Dave" Watson is an English former professional footballer who made 12 appearances for the English national team. He is now the youth team coach at Newcastle United.-Playing career:...
(Kona Clump) - Damian 'Div' Devlin
- Cameron McCaul (Trek)
- Thomas Vanderham (Evil Bikes)
- Matt HunterMatt HunterMatt Hunter is an Canadian professional mountain biker. Matt Hunter's professional career began when he won the 2003 "Ultimate Freeride Challenge"....
(Specialized) - Aaron Leete (Blk Mrkt Inc.)
- Aaron Chase (Cannondale)
- Adam HauckAdam HauckAdam Hauck is a writer, producer, and director, living and working in Los Angeles, California.-Biography:Adam Hauck studied creative writing at San Diego State University, and briefly pursued a career in journalism before moving to Los Angeles to work in television and film production...
(Blk Mrkt Inc.) - Benny Korthaus (Specialized)
- Trond Hansen (Specialized)
- Grant Fielder (Kona Clump)
- Kirt Voreis (Santa Cruz Syndicate)
- Jamie Goldman (Sana Cruz Syndicate)
- Wayne GossWayne GossWayne Keith Goss was Premier of Queensland from 7 December 1989 until 19 February 1996.-Early life:He was born at Mundubbera, Queensland and educated at Inala High School and the University of Queensland...
(Kona) - Eric PorterEric PorterEric Richard Porter was an English actor of stage, film and television.-Early life:Porter was born in Shepherd's Bush, London, to Richard John Porter and Phoebe Elizabeth Spall...
(Haro) - Sam Pilgrim (NS Bikes)
- Mike Metzger
- Top mountain bike coaches
- Gene HamiltonGene HamiltonGene Hamilton is a professional mountain bike racer and a licensed USA Cycling Expert Coach. He is a three time medalist at the UCI World Masters Championships...
- Daamiann Skelton
- Joan Jones
- Damion Smith (Yeti Cycles)
- Andrew ShandroAndrew ShandroAndrew Shandro is a professional mountain biker. Shandro has starred in many films and featured in mountain bike magazines worldwide. The majority of Shandro's pictures are taken by his close friend Sterling Lawrence. Andrew was born and raised on the North Shore, British Columbia...
(Trek)
- Gene Hamilton