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Haley Batten

Haley Batten

American cyclist

Haley Batten (born September 19, 1998) is an American cross-country mountain biker.

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From Park City, Utah, Batten studied at Quest University, Canada. Batten won national titles as a junior and another at U23 level, and won a U23 World Cup, and was part of the USA team relay at the 2019 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships where they earned a silver medal in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada.[1] Batten rode for the Clif Pro Team from 2016 to 2019 and Specialized Racing for 2020, and Trinity Racing in 2021. Batten rode to a third-place finish at her first elite World Cup XCO race in Albstadt, Germany.[2] On Friday 14 May 2021 Batten won the short-track cross-country MTB World Cup race in the Czech Republic.[3][4] She followed this up with finishing in 2nd place at the Nové Město XCO World Cup race punching her ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as the finish met USA Cycling’s automatic criteria for making the team.[5][6]

In 2024 Hayley won her first Elite World Cup race at Araxá in Brazil, the second round of the world cup. The win took Hayley into the leaders jersey after two podiums in Brazil.

Major results

2015
1st Cross-country, National Junior Championships
2016
2nd Cross-country, National Junior Championships
2017
1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
2018
2nd Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
2019
Pan American Championships
1st Under-23 Cross-country
2nd Team relay
2nd Team relay, UCI World Championships
2020
1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup
3rd Nové Město I
2021
UCI XCO World Cup
2nd Nové Město
3rd Albstadt
2022
1st Overall Cape Epic (with Sofía Gómez Villafañe)
UCI World Championships
3rd Cross-country
3rd Team relay
UCI XCO World Cup
3rd Mont-Sainte-Anne
2023
Shimano Super Cup Massi
1st Banyoles
XCO French Cup
2nd Lons-le-Saunier
UCI XCO World Cup
4th Les Gets
2024
UCI XCO World Cup
3rd Mairiporã
1st Araxá
UCI XCC World Cup
1st Araxá

References

  1. [1]
    "Haley Batten | Mountain Bike Pro". USA Cycling.
  2. [2]
    "Inside Haley Batten's podium ride at the Albstadt MTB World Cup". May 12, 2021.
  3. [3]
    "Haley Batten wins World Cup short track MTB in Nové Město". May 14, 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Haley Batten wins muddy Short Track World Cup in Nove Mesto". Canadian Cycling Magazine. May 14, 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Olympics 2021: Why the Nové Město World Cup matters for America's Olympic MTB hopefuls". May 13, 2021.
  6. [6]
    "Hayley Batten finishes second behind Loana Lecomte in Nové Město World Cup". May 16, 2021.


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