Fionn Griffiths

Fionn Griffiths (born 27 August 1982, Shrewsbury, Shropshire) is a female British downhill mountain bike rider. She has won 19 Downhill (DH) and 4X world cups and stood on 57 World Cup podiums over the 18 years of her career. Griffiths founded and ran GR Management, a sports marketing agency in 2001 specialising in sports marketing - team, athlete and event management. Over her career she has owned and run multiple World Cup teams: The NORCO World Team, GR Orange, GR INTENSE, GR Evil, bringing overall team podium finishes in the UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) Elite Team standings as well as representing many athletes in a management capacity. Over the years her athletes and teams have won multiple world championships and World Cup events across a range of sports.

Griffiths is a two time world cup champion. She holds 2 bronze and 3 silverworld championship medals as well as being a five time UK national champion in her discipline of DH. She also competed on the GB team for off-road motorcycle racing for a number of years and holds European Enduro champion title in this discipline

In 2015 Griffiths ended her race career prematurely when she landed a jump awkwardly (Fort William World Cup) resulting in a compression fracture of her lower spine for which later required a fusion surgery.

Following injury she moved to Asolo in Italy where she worked with her long time sponsor Alpinestars to design and develop their technician MX and Mountain Bike product lines.

She moved back to the UK in 2017 where she took a position with Husqvarna Motorcycles as the National Marketing and Events coordinator.

She is currently a firefighter in the West Midlands area.

History
Griffiths first got into mountain biking when she had a car accident and used it to help her recovery from injuries sustained from the crash. She then continued to bike and at a local training day collected information from Mid Shropshire Wheelers club.

Over her career she set up and ran a number of world cup UCI teams starting with The NORCO World Team, Intense and then KTM.

Injuries
In 2004 Griffiths broke her ankle at the start of the season. In an interview with BBC Wales she talked about the incident: "It was one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made. I'm only now beginning to realize how to mentally put myself back together." She ended up breaking her ankle 7 times in a year and a half after trying to continue her race season despite her injuries. over her career she also sustained other multiple major injuries including, concussions, broken wrists, hip injury, fractured neck, fractured thoracic spine, multiple dislocated shoulders, ribs and fingers and Internal bleeding.