Charlie Aldridge

Charlie Aldridge (born 3 April 2001) is a British mountain bike cross country cyclist from Scotland. He was the 2019 Junior World Champion, 2022 British national champion, 2023 U23 World Champion and 2026 European Champion.

Personal life Aldridge was born in Perth, Scotland and lives in Crieff. He was a student of mechanical engineering at the University of Edinburgh.

Career Aldridge won gold at the 2019 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships held in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada in the junior cross country competition. At that championships he was also part of the relay team that finished sixth overall.

In May, 2022 he won the British National Mountain Biking Championships u23 title at Cannock Chase. It was raced on the same course that would be used for the 2022 Commonwealth Games where Aldridge was chosen to compete for Scotland. The familiarity of this gave him confidence to strive for a medal. However, at the Games Aldridge was looking on course for a bronze medal on the penultimate lap when he had a mechanical issue following a crash. His bike lost its rear derailleur and he ended up finishing sixteenth.

In June, 2022 he won the European Continental Championships XCO U23 race in Anadia, Portugal. In July, 2022 he won bronze at the 2022 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup u23 event in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. He was named in the Britain squad for the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Les Gets, France in August 2022.

In June 2024, he was selected for the British team to compete in the Mountain Biking at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

In July 2025, he was runner-up to compatriot Tom Pidcock at the European Mountain Bike Championships in Portugal. The following year, he won the both the 'Olympic cross-country' and the short track title at the 2026 European Mountain Bike Championships. On 27 August, he won the silver medal at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in the short track discipline, before later in the week also winning the silver medal behind Pidcock in a British one-two finish at the Olympic cross-country distance.

Major results

2018 Junior National XC Series 1st Dalby Forest 1st Kentford 2nd Builth Wells 2nd Cross-country, National Junior Championships 2019 1st Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships Junior Swiss Bike Cup 1st Andermatt 1st Overall Junior National XC Series 1st Sherwood Pines 1st Hadleigh Park 1st Cannock Chase 2021 2nd Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships 2022 UEC European Championships 1st Short track

National Championships 1st Short track 1st Under-23 Cross-country 1st Overall National XC Series 1st Tong 1st Cannock Chase 2nd Newcastleton 2nd Fowey UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup 3rd Lenzerheide 3rd Jelenia Góra 2023 1st Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships National Championships 1st Cross-country 1st Short track National XCO Series 1st Winchester 1st Fowey

Greek Series 3rd Salamis 2024 National XCO Series 1st Cannock Chase UCI World Championships

4th Cross-country UCI XCC World Cup 2nd Les Gets 2nd Haiming Internazionali D’Italia Series 3rd Esanatoglia UCI XCO World Cup 4th Nové Město 4th Mont-Sainte-Anne 2025 National Championships 1st Cross-country 1st Short track UCI XCO World Cup 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne 2nd Lenzerheide 3rd Pal–Arinsal 5th Val di Sole 3rd Overall UCI XCC World Cup 1st Les Gets 2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne 3rd Leogang National XCO Series 1st Glentress Forest 1st Chelva

2nd Overall Mediterranean Epic Shimano Super Cup 2nd Banyoles Swiss Bike Cup 3rd Rivera 2026 UEC European Championships 1st Cross-country 1st Short track National Championships 1st Cross-country 1st Short track UCI World Championships

UCI XCO World Cup 3rd Mona Yongpyong UCI XCC World Cup 3rd La Thuile

UCI World Cup results Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rank Points 2023 NOV LEN LEO VAL AND LES SNO MON 21 602 2024 MAI ARA NOV VAL CRA LES LAK MON 15 819 2025 ARA ARA NOV LEO VAL AND LES LEN LAK MON 5 1367