Tracey Hannah
Personal information | |
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Born |
Cairns, Australia | June 13, 1988
Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
Weight | 116 lb (53 kg) |
Team information | |
Current team | UR Team Racing |
Discipline | Downhill |
Role | Downhill |
Rider type | Downhill |
Tracey Hannah (born 13 June 1988 in Cairns, Australia) is a Professional Downhill bike rider and Mick Hannah little sister. She raced her first national BMX titles when she was 4 years old. Tracey love to do MTB when she saw Mick Hannah (her eldest brother of four) was racing down a hill very fast on a MTB camp in 1997.
When she was 13 her parents let her to do downhill riding. As soon as she was 14, she race the national titles in elite and she came in 2nd place. For 7 years she was Australian National Champion. After that she started racing overseas and her results were; First in the NORBA Series overall, A Junior World Championship, Third in a World Cup overall, Third in Elite World Championships, and she have won a World Cup Round.
In 2012 her best places were 1st and 2nd out of 7 rounds of the World Cup Series, she finished 4th Overall. However she missed out on racing the 6th, and 7th rounds. During practice at the 6th round she crashed and was helicoptered out to the nearest hospital. she broke her femur, collarbone, bruised a lung and had a hematoma.
Her first race back since her injury was 7 months later in February 2013. This was the Australian National Championships and sje took out the win. She is the current National Champion for 2013.
Team
Tracey Hannah currently racing for the Polygon UR team as Bike Downhill rider.
Achievement
- 2014 1st Australian Champs
- 1st Crankworx Air DH
- 4th Overall UCI World Cup
- 2013 3rd World Champs Pietermaritzburg
- 1st City Downhill Bratislava
- 2012 4th Overall UCI World Cup
- 2006 1st Junior World Champs