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Nickname | Redcar Rocket | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1991-09-20) 20 September 1991 (age 33) Redcar, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Continental GT | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | MTB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | DH | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Major wins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maxxis Cup International #1 – Gouveia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Danny Hart (born 20 September 1991) is a British downhill mountain biker who currently rides for Continental GT. He won the 2011 and 2016 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.
Career
Hart was educated at Rye Hills School in Redcar. He had received financial support from Redcar and Cleveland Young People's Trust as a junior rider. In October 2011, after winning the World Championships, Hart and former Olympic triple-jumper Jonathan Edwards and world paratriathlete Charlotte Ellis helped launch a £31m project to build a leisure centre in Redcar.
Hart won the 2007 youth national championship at Rheola, Wales in conditions he described as 'really terrible'. In 2008, when 16, he began competing the elite class internationally, with a best DH World Cup result of 22nd at Vallnord, Andorra in June. In 2009 he won the Maxxis Cup in Vigo, Spain, and came second in the junior national championship at Innerleithen, Scotland, third at the junior world championship in Canberra, Australia and 20th in the Elite class at the Fort William, Scotland round of the World Cup in June of that year.
Major results
- 2011
- 1st UCI World Downhill Championships
- 4th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
- 2nd Fort William
- 2nd Val di Sole
- 2012
- 7th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
- 2nd Fort William
- 3rd Mont Sainte-Anne
- 2013
- 9th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
- 2nd Hafjell
- 2014
- 1st Red Bull Hardline
- 8th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
- 3rd Fort William
- 3rd Mont Sainte-Anne
- 2015
- 1st National Downhill Championships
- 2016
- 1st UCI World Downhill Championships
- 2nd National Downhill Championships
- 2nd Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
- 1st Lenzerheide
- 1st Mont Sainte-Anne
- 1st Vallnord
- 3rd Lourdes
- 3rd Fort William
- 2017
- 3rd National Downhill Championships
- 6th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
- 3rd Vallnord
- 3rd Lenzerheide
- 3rd Mont Sainte-Anne
- 2018
- 2nd National Downhill Championships
- 2nd Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
- 3rd Val di Sole
- 3rd Mont Sainte-Anne
- 2019
- 1st National Downhill Championships
- 4th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
- 2021
- 3rd National Downhill Championships
References
- "Ranking – Mountain Bike 2011". UCI. Archived from the original on 2 November 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
- "2011 UCI Downhill World Championships: Danny Hart Wins in Dominant Fashion". Bikemag.com. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- "Giant Bicycles – Danny Hart rider profile". Giant Bicycles. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- "Redcar & Cleveland CYPT – Making A Difference". Redcar & Cleveland Children & Young People's Trust. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- "Danny Hart helps launch £31m redcar sports project". The Gazette. 17 October 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- "Fox Racing Shox British National Downhill Championships Results 2007". British Cycling. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- "UCI MTB World Cup DH Vallnord Results 2008". British Cycling. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- "Maxxis Cup International DH Vigo Results 2009". British Cycling. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- "MSC Bikes National DH Championships Results 2009". British Cycling. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- "UCI World MTB DH Championships Results 2009". British Cycling. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- "UCI MTB World Cup DH Round 4 Results 2009". British Cycling. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- "Lenzerheide World Cup 2016 men's results".
- "GB's Atherton & Hart win in Switzerland". BBC Sport.
- "Hart wins Mont Sainte Anne downhill". cyclingnews.com. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
- "FINAL RESULTS: 🏁 2019 Snowshoe World Cup Downhill and Overall". vitalmtb.com. sspomer. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- "Danny HART (elt)". rootsandrain.com. Roots and Rain. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
External links
UCI Mountain Bike World Champions – Men's downhill | |
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