Danny Hart

Danny Hart (born 20 September 1991) is a British downhill mountain biker who currently rides for Norco Race Division He won the 2011 and 2016 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.

Career Hart was educated at Rye Hills School in Redcar. He had received financial support from Redcar and Cleveland Young People's Trust as a junior rider. 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.

Hart won the 2007 youth national championship at Rheola, Wales in conditions he described as 'really terrible'. 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. In 2009 he won the Maxxis Cup in Vigo, Spain, and came second in the junior national championship at Innerleithen, Scotland, third at the junior world championship in Canberra, Australia and 20th in the Elite class at the Fort William, Scotland round of the World Cup in June of that year.

Major results

2011

4th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup 2nd Fort William 2nd Val di Sole 2012 7th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup 2nd Fort William 3rd Mont Sainte-Anne 2013 9th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup 2nd Hafjell 2014 1st Red Bull Hardline 8th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup 3rd Fort William 3rd Mont Sainte-Anne 2015

2016

2nd National Downhill Championships 2nd Overall UCI Downhill World Cup 1st Lenzerheide 1st Mont Sainte-Anne 1st Vallnord 3rd Lourdes 3rd Fort William 2017 3rd National Downhill Championships 6th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup 3rd Vallnord 3rd Lenzerheide 3rd Mont Sainte-Anne 2018 2nd National Downhill Championships 2nd Overall UCI Downhill World Cup 3rd Val di Sole 3rd Mont Sainte-Anne 2019

4th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup 1st Snowshoe 2nd Maribor 2021 3rd National Downhill Championships