Manon Carpenter
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Full name | Manon Rose Carpenter | ||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Wales United Kingdom | 11 March 1993||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Madison Saracen | ||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | MTB | ||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | DH,4X, Dual Slalom, Gravity Enduro | ||||||||||||||||||
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2011– | |||||||||||||||||||
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GBR DH National Champion UCI DH World Champion Junior UCI DH World Cup Champion Junior UCI DH World Champion UCI DH World Cup Champion | |||||||||||||||||||
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Infobox last updated on 20 September 2014 |
Manon Rose Carpenter (born 11 March 1993)[1] is a professional racing cyclist specialising in downhill mountain bike racing, riding for the Madison Saracen Downhill team.
Biography
Carpenter is from Caerphilly, South Wales.[2] She was inspired to take up the sport by her father, Jason, a BMX track builder who is also her coach. Carpenter attended St. Martin's Comprehensive School, Caerphilly and is taking a gap year to concentrate on her sport before studying a science and Spanish degree in Manchester.[3]
In 2011, Manon Carpenter won the Junior UCI Downhill World Championship and the Junior UCI Mountain Bike World Cup overall. In 2013, Manon came third in the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup overall. In 2014 Manon took the world cup overall title and completed the season with the world championship at Hafjell earning the rainbow colour jersey.
She became a double world champion in 2014, winning the UCI Mountain Bike World Championship and the UCI World Cup Mountain Bike Downhill Series. She was also named Elite Cyclist of the Year at the USN Welsh Cycling Awards.[2]
Palmarès
- 2011
- 1st DH, Junior British National Mountain Biking Championships
- 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships Junior, Champéry, France
- 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Series Overall Junior
- 2012
- 1st DH, British National Mountain Biking Championships
- 2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 1, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
- 3rd DH, UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships Elite, Leogang, Austria
- 2013
- 2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 1, Fort William, Scotland
- 3rd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Series Overall
- 2014
- 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 1, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
- 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 4, Leogang, Austria
- 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 5, Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada
- 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Series Overall
- 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, Hafjell, Norway
References
- ↑ "Manon Carpenter Rider Profile". Madison. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Caerphilly’s world champion rider named Elite Cyclist of the Year at Welsh Cycling Awards". Caerphilly Observer. 30 October 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
- ↑ Gavin Thomas (24 October 2011). "Downhill bike world champion Manon Carpenter's dilemma". BBC. Retrieved 4 January 2012.