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Rachel Atherton

Personal information

Full name

Rachel Laura Atherton

Nickname

Waynehead

Born

(1987-12-06) December 6, 1987 (age 37)

England

United Kingdom

Height

170 cm (5 ft 7 in)

Weight

65 kg (143 lb)

Team information

Current team

Trek Factory Racing

Discipline

BMX & MTB

Role

Rider

Rider type

Professional teams

2007-2011

Animal Commençal

2011-2015

2015-

Trek Factory Racing

Major wins

GBR DH National Champion (2 Wins)

EUR DH European Champion (2 Wins)
UCI DH World Champion (3 Wins)
UCI DH Junior World Champion (1 Win)
UCI DH World Cup (27 Wins)
UCI DH World Cup Overall (4 Wins)

Medal record

Representing United Kingdom

Mountain Bike
Junior World Championships
	2005 Livigno	Downhill
	2004 Les Gets	Downhill
World Championships
	2008 Val Di Sol	Downhill
	2013 Pietermaritzburg	Downhill
	2015 Vallnord	Downhill
	2007 Fort William	Downhill
	2011 Champery	Downhill
	2014 Hafjell	Downhill
	2006 Rotorua	Downhill

Rachel Laura Atherton (born 6 December 1987, near Salisbury) is a professional racing cyclist specialising in downhill mountain bike racing, and is a multiple national champion.

Atherton began riding BMX at the age of 8 and mountain biking at the age of 11. She was both Sunday Times' Sportswoman of the Year and BBC Midlands Junior Sportswoman of the Year in 2005, and then BBC Midlands Sportswoman of the Year in 2008. In October 2015, a video of Atherton overtaking 91 competitors in five minutes during a race went semi viral.

Career

Since 2007 Rachel Atherton has been part of the Animal Commençal race team along with brothers Dan Atherton and Gee Atherton. In 2012, Rachel along with brothers Dan, Gee and Marc Beaumont signed with GT Bicycles.

In June 2008 Rachel Atherton became the first British woman to win the Elite UCI Downhill World Championship, defeating second placed Sabrina Jonnier by 11.99 seconds in the final.

Rachel Atherton was involved in an accident with a pickup truck whilst on a time trial training ride with brothers Dan and Gee in Santa Cruz, California, on January 18, 2009. She sustained a dislocated shoulder which, after later needing a nerve graft, ruled her out of the 2009 racing season, including the September World Championships in Canberra.

In September 2012, Rachel Atherton took the final World Cup round on a diverse and testing Norwegian track and clinched the overall title, despite missing the opening race of the season. The Norwegian race was the final round of a seven round series in which Atherton claimed a win in 5 of the 6 events she raced.