Charlie Hatton
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| Born | 23 February 1998 | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Atherton Continental | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Downhill | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Charlie Hatton (born 23 February 1998)[1] is a British cyclist. In 2023 he became the World Champion in Downhill mountain biking.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Hatton is from the Forest of Dean and started mountain biking with his older brothers Sam and Joe.[2]
Career
[edit | edit source]Hatton started on the Atherton Racing program in 2018.[3] In 2021 Hatton competed at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup for Atherton Bikes.[4] In 2022 he signed a three contract with Continental Atherton.[5] Hatton described signing the contract as a "no-brainer" and he reportedly helped the Atherton siblings, Rachel Atherton and Gee Atherton, develop Atherton Downhill Bikes.[6]
Competing at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Fort William in August 2023, Hatton won the downhill mountain bike gold medal representing Great Britain.[7][8] Hatton had started the event ranked seventeenth in the world but finished the course in a time of four minutes 26.747 seconds to finish 0.6sec ahead of Andreas Kolb (his Atherton team mate) of Austria with Hatton's compatriot Laurie Greenland winning bronze.[9]
Recent Results
[edit | edit source]| Date[10] | Event | Venue | Category | Position | Beat % | Result |
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| 5 August 2023 | UCI - DHI World Championships '23 | Fort William | Elite | 1 / 82 | 100% | 04:26.8 |
| 1 July 2023 | 2023 UCI World Cup DH #3 | Val di Sole | Elite (Elites) | DNF / 166 | 0% | DNF |
| 17 June 2023 | 2023 UCI World Cup DH #2 | Leogang | Elite (Elites) | 16 / 181 | 92% | 03:03.4 |
| 10 June 2023 | 2023 UCI World Cup DH #1 | Lenzerheide | Elite (Elites) | 10 / 198 | 95% | 02:43.1 |
| 7 May 2023 | 2023 British Cycling DH National Series #2 | Fort William | Elite | 3 / 50 | 96% | 04:30.3 |
| 23 April 2023 | UCI - 2023 ESO/Discovery DH Test Event | Lourdes | Elite | DNS / 31 | 0% | DNS |
| 16 April 2023 | 2023 British Cycling DH National Series #1 | Rheola | Elite | 2 / 37 | 97% | 02:48.8 |
| 2 April 2023 | 2023 Gravity Events UK DH #1 | Rheola | Elite | 3 / 16 | 87% | 02:43.8 |
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