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| Nickname | Redcar Rocket | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 September 1991 Redcar, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Continental GT | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | MTB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rider type | DH | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Maxxis Cup International #1 – Gouveia [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Danny Hart (born 20 September 1991) is a British downhill mountain biker who currently rides for Continental GT. He won the 2011 [2] and 2016 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.
Hart was educated at Rye Hills School in Redcar. [3] He had received financial support from Redcar and Cleveland Young People's Trust as a junior rider. [4] In October 2011, after winning the World Championships, Hart and former Olympic triple-jumper Jonathan Edwards and world paratriathlete Charlotte Ellis helped launch a £31m project to build a leisure centre in Redcar. [5]
Hart won the 2007 youth national championship at Rheola, Wales in conditions he described as 'really terrible'. [6] In 2008, when 16, he began competing the elite class internationally, with a best DH World Cup result of 22nd at Vallnord, Andorra in June. [7] In 2009 he won the Maxxis Cup in Vigo, Spain, [8] and came second in the junior national championship at Innerleithen, Scotland, [9] third at the junior world championship in Canberra, Australia [10] and 20th in the Elite class at the Fort William, Scotland [11] round of the World Cup in June of that year.
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