Rob Warner (born 16 November 1970) is a retired professional downhill mountain biker born in

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, England. Before turning professional in 1993 Warner worked for six months at the

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plant in Oxford on a production line building the Rover 800 series car. After riding for

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with teammate

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and then MBUK, he signed for the

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Downhill Team, and remained with them until the end of 2016. He then went on to join Commencal Bikes in 2017 in the role of brand ambassador. In 1996 he became the first ever British rider to win a round of the

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taking a historic win at

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in Austria. According to Warner, in a video streamed to Pinkbike on 2 June 2014 title
The Lost Rob Warner Story
he actually won the Kaprun World Cup with an STI he picked up in Les Gets a week before. He became the UK National Champion in 1997, 1998 and finally in 2001. Rob Warner also appeared on a 1996 episode of ''

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'', where he raced a rally car. Despite failing to beat the car, he did get to meet and secure a small kiss from Jet from ''

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'', who was co-hosting the show. Aside from competition, Warner has turned his hand to television, presenting the

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2007 X Fighters Freestyle Motocross events with Ed Leigh. For the last two seasons he has also presented commentary on World Cup and World Championship downhill rounds with Claudio Caluori and the World Cup Cross Country (XCC & XCO) with Dutch 1996 Olympic Champion, Bart Brentjens. In 2019, Warner released a series of videos on

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following his journey through several riding destinations, joined by mountain biking riders Matt Jones, Olly Wilkins, and Finn Iles. The countries visited include New Zealand, Kenya,

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, Ecuador, Nepal and Colombia.

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* 1970 births English male cyclists British male cyclists Downhill mountain bikers Living people Sportspeople from Reading, Berkshire English mountain bikers British mountain bikers {{England-cycling-bio-stub