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| Full name | Cédric Gracia | ||||||||||||
| Nickname | CG | ||||||||||||
| Born | May 23, 1978 Pau, France |
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| Current team | CG Racing Brigade | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Mountain Bike | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | DH, 4x, Freeride, Slopestyle | ||||||||||||
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| Infobox last updated on October 21, 2009 |
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Cédric Gracia (born 23 May 1978 in Pau, France) 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. He entered the professional mountain biking scene in 2001, then part of the Volvo/Cannondale team.
He races in downhill and four-cross (4X) on the UCI World circuit. Gracia rode for the Rainer-Wurz Siemens Cannondale team between 1999 and 2005, before joining the Commencal team in 2006. In 2003 Cedric won the Red Bull Rampage, a big-mountain freeride competition in Utah.
In 2008 he took part as a guest editor for the 20th anniversary issue of Mountain Biking UK (MBUK) magazine. In 2008, he also participated in the new Red Bull Rampage: Evolution. In addition, he recently won the Crankworx 4X competition. He also recently won the Urban Race in Brazil, Paris, Chile.[1]
In 2010 Gracia started his own team, the CG Racing Brigade. During 2010 he was the only rider on the team but in 2011 Marcelo Guttierez, the Colombian National Champion, was added to the ranks. They are two of very few riders outside the Santa Cruz Syndicate to be using the carbon V-10 downhill bike during the 2011 season.