Haley Batten (born September 19, 1998) is a Professional cross-country mountain biker and Olympic silver medalist. She has represented the United States at the elite level since 2021. Currently on the Specialized Factory Racing team, she rides the S-Works series of mountain bikes.
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| Born | September 19, 1998 Park City, Utah, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Specialized Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Mountain Bike | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rider type | Cross-Country | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Whole Athlete Specialized | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2016–2019 | Clif Pro Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019—2021 | Trinity Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021– | Specialized Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Career
editBatten won national titles as a junior and another at the U23 level. She won a U23 World Cup, and was part of the USA team relay at the 2019 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships where they earned a silver medal in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada.[1] Batten rode for the Clif Pro Team from 2016 to 2019, Trinity Racing from 2019 to 2021, and Specialized Factory Racing from 2022 to present. Batten rode to a third-place finish at her first elite World Cup XCO race in Albstadt, Germany.[2] On Friday 14 May 2021 Batten won the short-track cross-country MTB World Cup race in the Czech Republic.[3][4] She followed this up finishing in 2nd place at the Nové Město XCO World Cup race punching her ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as the finish met USA Cycling’s automatic criteria for making the team.[5][6]
During the first World Cups of 2024 in Brazil, Batten won a bronze in Maripora XCO and the following weekend in Araxa she was 1st in the XCC and XCO.[7] These podiums in Brazil put Batten into both XCC and XCO leader jerseys. During the 3rd World Cup in Nove Mesto Na Morave she placed 3rd in the XCC and 2nd in the XCO. She would continue on to the 4th World Cup at Val d' Sole ranked 1st in XCO.
Batten's results in Brazil qualified her for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Competing at the Games, she won the silver medal, the United States' first in mountain biking.[8][9]
Major results
edit- 2015
- 1st
Cross-country, National Junior Championships
- 2016
- 2nd Cross-country, National Junior Championships
- 2017
- 1st
- 2018
- 2nd Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
- 2019
- UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup
- 1st Nové Město
- 3rd Albstadt
- 3rd Lenzerheide
- Pan American Championships
- 1st
Under-23 Cross-country
- 2nd
Team relay
- 1st
- 2nd
Team relay, UCI World Championships
- 2020
- 1st
- UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup
- 3rd Nové Město I
- 2021
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 2nd Nové Město
- 3rd Albstadt
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Nove Mesto
- 9th Cross-country, Olympic Games Tokyo
- 2022
- 1st
Overall Cape Epic (with Sofía Gómez Villafañe)
- UCI World Championships
- 3rd
Cross-country
- 3rd
- 3rd
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 3rd Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 2023
- Shimano Super Cup
- 1st Banyoles
- XCO French Cup
- 2nd Lons-le-Saunier
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 4th Les Gets
- 2024
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Araxá
- 2nd Nové Město
- 3rd Mairiporã
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Araxá
- 3rd Nové Město
- 2nd
Cross-country, Olympic Games Paris
References
edit- ^ "Haley Batten | Mountain Bike Pro". USA Cycling.
- ^ "Inside Haley Batten's podium ride at the Albstadt MTB World Cup". May 12, 2021.
- ^ "Haley Batten wins World Cup short track MTB in Nové Město". May 14, 2021.
- ^ "Haley Batten wins muddy Short Track World Cup in Nove Mesto". Canadian Cycling Magazine. May 14, 2021.
- ^ "Olympics 2021: Why the Nové Město World Cup matters for America's Olympic MTB hopefuls". May 13, 2021.
- ^ "Hayley Batten finishes second behind Loana Lecomte in Nové Město World Cup". May 16, 2021.
- ^ "Final Elite XC Results & Overall Standings from the Araxá XC World Cup 2024". pinkbike.com. April 22, 2024.
- ^ Moultrie, James (July 28, 2024). "Paris Olympics: Pauline Ferrand-Prévot takes stunning women's cross-country mountain bike gold for France". Cycling News. Retrieved July 28, 2024.
- ^ "Haley Batten Wins Team USA's First Olympic Silver Medal in Mountain Biking". www.teamusa.com. July 28, 2024. Retrieved July 28, 2024.
External links
edit- Haley Batten at Cycling Archives
- Haley Batten at CycleBase
- Haley Batten at MTB Data
- Haley Batten at Olympedia