Danny Hart (cyclist)

Danny Hart (born 20 September 1991) is a British downhill mountain biker who currently rides for Cube Factory Racing. 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
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg 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 Hafjell


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


 * 2015
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Downhill Championships


 * 2016
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg UCI World Downhill Championships
 * 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
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Downhill Championships
 * 4th Overall UCI Downhill World Cup
 * 1st Snowshoe
 * 2nd Maribor
 * 2021
 * 3rd National Downhill Championships