Manon Rose Carpenter (born 11 March 1993) is a Welsh, professional

racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cyclin ...

formerly specialising in downhill

mountain bike racing Mountain bike racing (shortened MTB or ATB racing) is the competitive cycle sport discipline of mountain biking held on off-road terrain. The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) recognised the discipline relatively late in 1990, when it sanctioned ...

. Carpenter is from Caerphilly,

South Wales South Wales ( cy, De Cymru) is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north. Generally considered to include the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, south Wales extends westwards ...

. 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 Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of City of Salford, Salford to ...

. In 2011, Manon Carpenter won the Junior UCI Downhill World Championship and the Junior

UCI Mountain Bike World Cup The UCI Mountain Bike World Cup is a multi-round mountain bike racing series that is sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale The ''Union Cycliste Internationale'' (UCI; ; en, International Cycling Union) is the world governing bod ...

overall. In 2013, Manon came third in the

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. In November 2016 she announced that she was leaving Madison Saracen. In August 2017 Carpenter announced her retirement from Downhill racing with immediate effect.

Results

;2011 :1st DH, Junior British National Mountain Biking Championships :1st DH,

UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships The UCI Mountain Bike World Championships are the world championship events for mountain bike racing in the disciplines of cross country, downhill, and four-cross. They are organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the governing ...

Junior,

Champéry Champéry (; frp, Champérié) is a municipality in the district of Monthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. History Champéry is first mentioned in 1286 as ''Champery'' The Hotel Dent-du-Midi opened in 1857. In 1969, Champéry becam ...

, France :1st DH,

, Series Overall Junior ;2012 :1st DH, British National Mountain Biking Championships :2nd DH,

, Round 1,

Pietermaritzburg Pietermaritzburg (; Zulu: umGungundlovu) is the capital and second-largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1838 and is currently governed by the Msunduzi Local Municipality. Its Zulu name umGungundlovu ...

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:3rd DH,

Elite, Leogang, Austria ;2013 :2nd DH,

, Round 1, Fort William, Scotland :3rd DH,

, Series Overall ;2014 :1st DH,

, Round 1,

:1st DH,

, Round 4, Leogang, Austria :1st DH,

, Round 5, Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada :1st DH,

, Series Overall :1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Championships,

Hafjell Hafjell is a village and a ski resort in Norway, in the Øyer municipality in the county of Oppland. Hafjell hosted the alpine skiing technical events (giant slalom and slalom) at the 1994 Winter Olympics; the speed events were held at Kvi ...

, Norway ;2015 :4th DH,

, Round 1,

Lourdes Lourdes (, also , ; oc, Lorda ) is a market town situated in the Pyrenees. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. Prior to the mid-19th century, the town was best known for the Châte ...

, France :4th DH,

, Round 2, Fort William, Scotland :DSQ* DH,

, Round 3, Leogang, Austria :2nd DH,

, Round 4,

Lenzerheide Lenzerheide ( Romansh: ''Lai'') is a mountain resort in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland at the foot of the Parpaner Rothorn. The village lies in the municipality Vaz/Obervaz in the district of Albula, sub-district Alvaschein. The ...

, Switzerland :2nd DH,

, Round 5, Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada :2nd DH

, Round 6,

Windham, New York Windham is a town in Greene County, New York, United States. The population was 1,703 at the 2010 census. The town was probably named for the town or county of Windham, Connecticut, as many of its earliest settlers came from that state as well a ...

, United States :3rd DH,

, Round 7, Val di Sole, Italy :2nd DH,

, Series Overall :2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Championships,

Vallnord Vallnord () is a ski/ snowboard resort in the Pyrenees mountains in the country of Andorra, close to the border with Spain at Tor, Pallars. Overview It encompasses the linked sectors of Pal and Arinsal (the sectors were linked by a cable ca ...

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: * 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 Llangollen () is a town and community, situated on the River Dee, in Denbighshire, Wales. Its riverside location forms the edge of the Berwyn range, and the Dee Valley section of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Bea ...

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

:2nd DH, British Downhill Series, Round 4,

Bala, Wales Bala ( cy, Y Bala) is a town and community in Gwynedd, Wales. Formerly an urban district, Bala lies in the historic county of Merionethshire, at the north end of Bala Lake ( cy, Llyn Tegid). According to the 2021 Census, Bala had a population ...

:1st DH, British Downhill Series, Round 5, Moelfre, Wales :1st DH, British Downhill Series, Round 6,

Blaenau Ffestiniog Blaenau Ffestiniog is a town in Gwynedd, Wales. Once a slate mining centre in historic Merionethshire, it now relies much on tourists, drawn for instance to the Ffestiniog Railway and Llechwedd Slate Caverns. It reached a population of 12,000 ...

:1st DH, British Downhill Series, Series Overall ;2016 - British Downhill Series :1st DH, British Downhill Series, Round 1, Ae Forest, Scotland ;2016 -

:3rd DH,

, Round 1,

, France :3rd DH,

, Round 2, Cairns, Australia :3rd DH,

, Round 3, Fort William, Scotland :5th DH,

, Round 4, Leogang, Austria :4th DH,

, Round 6, Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carpenter, Manon 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Caerphilly Welsh female cyclists Downhill mountain bikers Place of birth missing (living people) UCI Mountain Bike World Champions (women) Welsh mountain bikers