Manon Carpenter

Manon Carpenter
Personal information
Full name	Manon Rose Carpenter
Born	11 March 1993 (age 31); Wales; United Kingdom
Team information
Current team	Radon Factory DH
Discipline	MTB
Role	Rider
Rider type	DH
Professional team
2011–2016	Madison Saracen
Major wins
	GBR DH National Champion; UCI DH World Champion Junior; UCI DH World Cup Champion Junior; UCI DH World Champion; UCI DH World Cup Champion
Medal record
Representing Great Britain
Women's Mountain Bike
World Championships

Manon Rose Carpenter (born 11 March 1993)^[1] is a Welsh, professional racing cyclist formerly specialising in downhill mountain bike racing.

Carpenter is from Caerphilly, South Wales.^[2] She was inspired to take up the sport by her father, Jason, a BMX track builder who also ran a DH race series in South Wales. Carpenter attended St. Martin's Comprehensive School, Caerphilly and is taking a gap year to concentrate on her sport before studying a science and Spanish degree in Manchester.^[3]

In 2011, Manon Carpenter won the Junior UCI Downhill World Championship and the Junior UCI Mountain Bike World Cup overall. In 2013, Manon came third in the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup overall. In 2014 Manon took the world cup overall title and completed the season with the world championship at Hafjell earning the rainbow colour jersey.

She became a double world champion in 2014, winning the UCI Mountain Bike World Championship and the UCI World Cup Mountain Bike Downhill Series. She was also named Elite Cyclist of the Year at the USN Welsh Cycling Awards.^[2]

In November 2016 she announced that she was leaving Madison Saracen.

In August 2017 Carpenter announced her retirement from Downhill racing with immediate effect.^[4]

Results edit

2011: 1st DH, Junior British National Mountain Biking Championships; 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships Junior, Champéry, France; 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Series Overall Junior

2012: 1st DH, British National Mountain Biking Championships; 2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 1, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; 3rd DH, UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships Elite, Leogang, Austria

2013: 2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 1, Fort William, Scotland; 3rd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Series Overall

2014: 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 1, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 4, Leogang, Austria; 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 5, Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada; 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Series Overall; 1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, Hafjell, Norway

2015: 4th DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 1, Lourdes, France; 4th DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 2, Fort William, Scotland; DSQ* DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 3, Leogang, Austria; 2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 4, Lenzerheide, Switzerland; 2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 5, Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada; 2nd DH UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 6, Windham, New York, United States; 3rd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 7, Val di Sole, Italy; 2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Series Overall; 2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, Vallnord, Andorra; * Disqualified for leaving track & rejoining further down the track; 1st DH, British Downhill Series, Round 1, Ae Forest, Scotland; 3rd DH, British Downhill Series, Round 2, Fort William, Scotland; 1st DH, British Downhill Series, Round 3, Llangollen, Wales; 2nd DH, British Downhill Series, Round 4, Bala, Wales; 1st DH, British Downhill Series, Round 5, Moelfre, Wales; 1st DH, British Downhill Series, Round 6, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales; 1st DH, British Downhill Series, Series Overall