Rachel Atherton
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Rachel Laura Atherton |
| Nickname | Waynehead |
| Born |
December 6, 1987  England United Kingdom
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| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Trek Factory Racing |
| Discipline | BMX & MTB |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | DH |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2007-2011 | Animal Commençal |
| 2011-2015 | GT |
| 2015- | Trek Factory Racing |
| Major wins | |
| DH World Champion (x4) DH World Cup (x5 overall, 33 rounds) DH European Champion (x2) DH National Champion (x5) DH Junior World Champion |
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Rachel Laura Atherton (born 6 December 1987, near Salisbury) is a professional racing cyclist specialising in downhill mountain bike racing, and is a multiple world champion.
Atherton began riding BMX at the age of 8 and mountain biking at the age of 11. She was both Sunday Times' Sportswoman of the Year and BBC Midlands Junior Sportswoman of the Year in 2005, and then BBC Midlands Sportswoman of the Year in 2008. In October 2015, a video of Atherton overtaking 91 competitors in five minutes during a race went semi viral.
Since 2007 Rachel Atherton has been part of the Animal Commençal race team along with brothers Dan Atherton and Gee Atherton. In 2012, Rachel along with brothers Dan, Gee and Marc Beaumont signed with GT Bicycles.
In June 2008 Rachel Atherton became the first British woman to win the Elite UCI Downhill World Championship, defeating second placed Sabrina Jonnier by 11.99 seconds in the final.
Rachel Atherton was involved in an accident with a pickup truck whilst on a time trial training ride with brothers Dan and Gee in Santa Cruz, California, on January 18, 2009. She sustained a dislocated shoulder which, after later needing a nerve graft, ruled her out of the 2009 racing season, including the September World Championships in Canberra.
In September 2012, Rachel Atherton took the final World Cup round on a diverse and testing Norwegian track and clinched the overall title, despite missing the opening race of the season. The Norwegian race was the final round of a seven-round series in which Atherton claimed a win in 5 of the 6 events she raced.
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