Haley Batten
Personal information | |
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Born | Park City, Utah | September 19, 1998
Team information | |
Current team | Trinity Racing |
Discipline | Mountain bike |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Cross-country |
Professional teams | |
2016–2019 | Clif Pro Team |
2020 | Specialized Racing |
2021– | Trinity Racing |
Haley Batten (born September 19, 1998) is an American cross-country and mountain bike cyclist.
From Park City, Utah, Batten studied at Quest University, Canada. Batten won national titles as a junior and another at U23 level, and 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 and Specialized Racing for 2020, and Trinity Racing in 2021. 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 with 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]
Major results[]
- 2015
- 1st National Junior XCO Championships
- 2016
- 2nd National Junior XCO Championships
- 2017
- 1st National Under-23 XCO Championships
- 2018
- 2nd National Under-23 XCO Championships
- 2019
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- 1st Under-23 XCO
- 2nd Mixed relay
- 2nd Mixed relay, UCI World Championships
- 2021
- UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
- 2nd Nové Město
- 3rd Albstadt
References[]
- ^ "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.
- 1998 births
- Living people
- American female cyclists
- Sportspeople from Utah
- UCI Mountain Bike World Champions (women)
- Cross-country mountain bikers
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of the United States
- 21st-century American women
- Cyclists from Utah
- American cycling biography stubs