Haley Batten

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Haley Batten
Haley Batten with Silver Medal - 2024 Olympics (53924215702) (cropped).jpg
Batten with her silver medal from the 2024 Summer Olympic Games
Personal information
Born (1998-09-19) September 19, 1998 (age 25)
Team information
Current teamSpecialized Racing
DisciplineMountain Bike
RoleRider
Rider typeCross-Country
Amateur teams
White Pine Touring
Whole Athlete Specialized
Professional teams
2016–2019Clif Pro Team
2019—2021 Trinity Racing
2021–Specialized Racing
Major wins
Mountain bike
XC World Cup
1 win (2024)
XCC World Cup
1 win (2024)
Cape Epic (2023)
Medal record
Women's mountain bike racing
Representing the Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Olympic Games
Olympic rings.svg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Paris Cross-country
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Vallnord Mixed relay
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Les Gets Cross-country

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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Career

Batten 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

2015
1st MaillotUSA.PNG Cross-country, National Junior Championships
2016
2nd Cross-country, National Junior Championships
2017
1st MaillotUSA.PNG Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
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 Gold medal america.svg Under-23 Cross-country
2nd Silver medal america.svg Team relay
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team relay, UCI World Championships
2020
1st MaillotUSA.PNG Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
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 Jersey orange Cape Epic.svg Overall Cape Epic (with Sofía Gómez Villafañe)
UCI World Championships
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Cross-country
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team relay
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 Silver medal olympic.svg Cross-country, Olympic Games Paris

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References

  1. ↑ "Haley Batten | Mountain Bike Pro". USA Cycling.
  2. ↑ "Inside Haley Batten's podium ride at the Albstadt MTB World Cup". May 12, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Haley Batten wins World Cup short track MTB in Nové Město". May 14, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Haley Batten wins muddy Short Track World Cup in Nove Mesto". Canadian Cycling Magazine. May 14, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Olympics 2021: Why the Nové Město World Cup matters for America's Olympic MTB hopefuls". May 13, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Hayley Batten finishes second behind Loana Lecomte in Nové Město World Cup". May 16, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Final Elite XC Results & Overall Standings from the Araxá XC World Cup 2024". pinkbike.com. April 22, 2024.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ "Haley Batten Wins Team USA's First Olympic Silver Medal in Mountain Biking". www.teamusa.com. July 28, 2024. Retrieved July 28, 2024.
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