2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships

UCI MTB World Championships Teams Announced For U.S. And Canada

UCI MTB World Championships Teams Announced For U.S. And Canada

Team USA and Cycling Canada have announced the athletes headed to Pal Arinsal, Andorra, for the upcoming 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.

Aug 22, 2024 by Lucas Wiseman
UCI MTB World Championships Teams Announced For U.S. And Canada

Team USA and Cycling Canada have announced the athletes headed to Pal Arinsal, Andorra, for the upcoming 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. FloBikes will broadcast the elite races on the last three days of the event – Aug. 30-Sept. 1 – for viewers in the United States and Canada.

Athletes will compete in Cross-Country Olympic (XCO), Short Track (XCC), Downhill (DHI) and E-MTB Cross-Country.

Haley Batten, who won the silver medal at the Olympics in Paris, is on the roster to represent the United States in the XCO event.

Here’s the full list of Team USA and Cycling Canada riders competing in the event:

United States

Cross Country

Elite Women

Haley Batten (Park City, Utah; Specialized Factory Racing)
Savilia Blunk (Inverness, Calif.; Decathlon Ford Racing Team)
Kate Courtney (Kentfield, Calif.; SCOTT-SRAM Factory Racing)
Gwendalyn Gibson (Ramona, Calif.; Trek Factory Racing)
Kelsey Urban (Kentfield, Calif.; Team 31)

Elite Men

Christopher Blevins (Durango, Colo.; Specialized Factory Racing)

U23 Women

Madigan Munro (Boulder, Colo.; Trek Factory Racing)
Sofia Waite (Littleton, Colo.; BH Coloma Team)

U23 Men

Riley Amos (Durango, Colo.; Trek Factory Racing)
Carson Hampton (Boise, Idaho; Bear National Team)
Brayden Johnson (Littleton, Colo.; Santa Cruz Rock Shox)
Bjorn Riley (Boulder, Colo.; Trek Future Racing)

Junior Women

Alice Hoskins (Charlottesville, Va.; Gravity Collective)
Vida Lopez de San Roman (Sebastopol, Calif.; Bear National Team)
Ingrid McElroy (Danville, Pa.; Bear National Team)

Junior Men

Ezra Caudell (Acworth, Ga.; Gravity Collective)
Henry Coote (Manchester, Mass.; Competitive Edge)
Nicholas Konecny (Breckenridge, Colo.; Bear National Team)
Luke Mosteller (Tunnell Hill, Ga.; Bear National Team)
River Valdez (Sedona, Ariz.; Bear National Team)

Downhill

Elite Men

Austin Dooley (Yucaipa, Calif.; Commencal Schwalbe)
Dylan Maples (Orangevale, Calif.; Commencal Muc-Off)
Dakotah Norton (Clinton, Tenn.; Mondraker Factory Racing)
Ryan Pinkerton (Alisa Viejo, Calif.; Mondraker Factory Racing)
Richie Rude (Redding, Conn; Yeti/ FOX Factory Team)
Luca Shaw (Pisgah Forest, N.C.; Canyon Collective)
Dante Silva (Chula Vista, Calif.; Canyon Collective Pirelli Team)

Elite Women

Abby Hogie (Heidelberg, Germany; Beyond Racing MTB)
Anna Newkirk (Riehen, Switzerland; Beyond Racing MTB)
Abby Ronca (Bethlehem, Pa.; Evolve Racing)

Junior Men

Bode Burke (Rhododendron, Ore.; Outlaw Bike Team)
Lucas DeDora (Huntington Station, N.Y.; Transition Factory Racing)
Ryder Lawrence (Menifee, Calif.; Intense Factory Racing)
Gavin Tomlinson (Burbank, Calif.; Gravity Collective)
Asa Vermette (Durango, Colo.; Frameworks Racing)

Junior Women

Kale Cushman (Old Town, Maine)
Teagan Heap (Boulder City, Nev.; Pivot Cycles)
Julia Lofqvist Traum (Issaquah, Wash.)
Matilda Melton (Bellingham, Wash.; Transition Factory Racing)

E-MTB Cross-Country

Men

David Harrison (Sun Valley, Idaho)

Canada

Cross Country

Juniors 

Rafaëlle Carrier – Lac-Beauport, QC
Julien Desjardins – Gatineau, QC
Nicolas Gauthier – Gatineau, QC
Aislin Hallahan – Peterborough, ON
Felix-Antoine Leclair – St-Denis-de-Brampton, QC
Lily-Rose Marois – Lac-Beauport, QC
Jacob Roy – Ste-Gertrude-Manneville, QC
Maude Ruelland – Lac-Beauport, QC
Tristan Taillefer – Saint-Denis-de-Brompton, QC
Eleanor Winchell – Powell River, BC

U23 

Ian Ackert – Severn, ON
Owen Clark – King City, ON
Isabella Holmgren – Orillia, ON
Ava Holmgren – Orillia, ON
Emilly Johnston – Comox, BC
Marin Lowe – Squamish, BC
Ella MacPhee – Squamish, BC
Zorak Paillé – St-Sauveur, QC
Cole Punchard – Huntsville, ON
Noah Ramsay – Toronto, ON

Elites  

Léandre Bouchard – Alma, QC
Gunnar Holmgren – Orillia, ON
Jenn Jackson – Barrie, ON
Tyler Orschel – Uxbridge, ON
Roxane Vermette – St-Férréol-les-Neiges, QC
Sandra Walter – Coquitlam, BC
Carter Woods – Cumberland, BC

Downhill

Juniors 

Geza Rodgers – Port Moody, BC
Megan Bedard – Whistler, BC
Rebecca Beaton – Pemberton, BC
Dane Jewett – Squamish, BC
Jon Mozell – North Vancouver, BC
Michael De La Salle – Vancouver, BC
Griffin Tulk – Squamish, BC
Ryan Griffith – Squamish, BC
Dylan Marino – Whistler, BC
Jack MacLeod – Squamish, BC

Elites 

Gracey Hemstreet – Sechelt, BC
Emmy Lan – Comox, BC
Sophi Lawrence – Whistler, BC
Jakob Jewett – Squamish, BC
Bodhi Kuhn – Rossland, BC
Finn Iles – Pemberton, BC
Mark Wallace – Duncan, BC
Kasper Woolley – Squamish, BC
Johnathan Helly – Kamloops, BC
Kirk McDowall – Port Moody, BC