Charlie Hatton
2023 UCI Downhill World Champion, racing for Atherton Racing since 2018
Career results
7
Wins at Fort William
A record for the venue
3
World Cup overall titles
2001, 2005, 2008
22
World Cup wins
The most by any man
4
World titles
2003, 2012, 2013, 2021
Biography
Charlie Hatton is a British downhill mountain biker from the Forest of Dean. He has raced for the Atherton team since 2018 and rides for Continental Atherton in 2026.
He won the British Downhill Series overall as a junior in 2016 and the elite National Downhill Series in 2017, his first year as an elite. His World Cup breakthrough came in 2022, with seventh places at Lenzerheide and Val di Sole. In August 2023 he won the elite men's downhill at the World Championships at Fort William, 0.6 seconds ahead of Andreas Kolb: the first elite men's world title won on a British-made mountain bike.
He was second at Red Bull Hardline Wales in 2025. In May 2026 he won round two of the iXS European Downhill Cup at Fort William, and in October he finished seventh at the first Red Bull Hardline British Columbia.
Career highlights
- UCI Downhill World Champion, Fort William 2023
- 2nd, Red Bull Hardline Wales 2025
- 7th, Red Bull Hardline British Columbia 2026
- 1st, iXS European Downhill Cup round 2, Fort William 2026
- 7th, UCI Downhill World Cup, Lenzerheide and Val di Sole 2022
- Elite overall winner, British National Downhill Series 2017
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Career
2025
Team Director, Norco Race Division
2024
Last World Cup race, Mont-Sainte-Anne; MBUK Lifetime Achievement Award
2021
World Champion for the fourth time
2013
World Champion
2012
World Champion
2008
World Cup overall; joins the Santa Cruz Syndicate
2005
World Cup overall
2003
World Champion
2001
World Cup overall
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