electrical mountain bike Mountain Bike World Championships: GB’s Danny Hart bidding for third profession rainbow jersey
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Nice Britain’s Danny Hart will start his bid for his third rainbow jersey on Friday on the Mountain Bike World Championships in Austria.
Hart goes in qualification in males’s downhill, with two-time silver medallist Tahnee Seagrave additionally beginning her marketing campaign for a maiden world title within the ladies’s occasion.
Within the males’s U23 class Tom Pidcock will purpose to win his second gold of the week when he strains up within the cross-country remaining.
Pidcock, a brand new signing for the Ineos Grenadiers street staff, won the electric pedal-assist E-MTB event on Wednesday.
These riders are amongst 32 elite and age-group British Biking representatives who travelled to Leogang for the championships.
5-time downhill world champion Rachel Atherton, who has not competed in additional than a yr after snapping her Achilles tendon, had deliberate to make use of the occasion to make her comeback.
Nevertheless, she determined to withdraw following medical recommendation that her harm was not prepared for competitors.
Which means Seagrave, who has come second in every of the final two editions, may very well be Britain’s finest hope for downhill gold.
The 25 year-old, although, can also be coming back from her personal harm troubles, having suffered a double leg break and ankle dislocation in a coaching run earlier this yr.
Ought to Seagrave and Hart efficiently navigate Friday’s qualifying they may go within the remaining on Sunday.
On Saturday it’s the flip of the Olympic cross-country self-discipline, the place Annie Final will purpose so as to add world gold to the Commonwealth Video games gold she received in 2018.
Within the males’s subject, 2019 British champion Frazer Clacherty is GB’s solely senior consultant.
Efficiency Director Stephen Park mentioned: “We now have some sturdy podium contenders throughout the squad and having a model new course provides to the joy of the occasion.”
Nice Britain Crew for the 2020 Mountain Bike World Championships
Cross Nation
Elite Males
Frazer Clacherty
Elite Ladies
Annie Final
Evie Richards
Isla Quick
Beneath-23 Males
Charlie Aldridge
Harry Birchall
Sean Flynn
Tom Pidcock
Beneath-23 Ladies
Hattie Harnden
Anna McGorum
Junior Males
Corran Carrick Anderson
Rory McGuire
Junior Ladies
Anna Flynn
Eleana McGorum
Downhill
Elite Males
Danny Hart
Charlie Hatton
Bernard Kerr
Laurie Greenland
Matt Walker
Greg Williamson
Reece Wilson
Elite Ladies
Maya Atkinson
Stacey Fisher
Mikayla Parton
Tahnée Seagrave
Junior Males
Ethan Craik
James Elliott
Dennis Luffman
Luke Mumford
Dan Slack
Connor Smith
Luke Williamson
