Danny Hart (born 20 September 1991) is a British downhill mountain biker who currently rides for Norco Race Division He won the

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and

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UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.

Career

Hart was educated at Rye Hills School in

Redcar Redcar is a seaside town on the Yorkshire Coast in the Redcar and Cleveland unitary authority. It is in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England, and is located east of Middlesbrough. The Teesside built-up area's Redcar subdiv ...

. 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

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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

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, and came second in the junior national championship at Innerleithen, Scotland, third at the junior world championship in

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and 20th in the Elite class at the

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round of the World Cup in June of that year. Danny Hart UCI World Cup Fort William 2017 starting gate

Major results

;2011 : 1st Jersey rainbow

UCI World Downhill Championships : 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

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;2014 : 1st Red Bull Hardline : 8th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup ::3rd Fort William ::3rd Mont Sainte-Anne ;2015 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

National Downhill Championships ;2016 : 1st Jersey rainbow

UCI World Downhill Championships : 2nd National Downhill Championships : 2nd Overall UCI Downhill World Cup ::1st

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::1st Mont Sainte-Anne ::1st

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::3rd Fort William ;2017 : 3rd National Downhill Championships : 6th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup ::3rd

::3rd

::3rd Mont Sainte-Anne ;2018 : 2nd National Downhill Championships : 2nd Overall UCI Downhill World Cup ::3rd Val di Sole ::3rd Mont Sainte-Anne ;2019 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

National Downhill Championships : 4th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup ::1st

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::2nd

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;2021 : 3rd National Downhill Championships

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hart, Danny 1991 births Living people Downhill mountain bikers Sportspeople from Redcar Cyclists from Yorkshire UCI Mountain Bike World Champions (men) English male cyclists British male cyclists English mountain bikers British mountain bikers 21st-century English sportsmen