Rachel Atherton

Rachel Laura Atherton ( born December 6, 1987 Salisbury, United Kingdom ) is a British mountain bike rider who has specialized in the mountain bike downhill discipline.

Rachel Atherton won the first British woman to Elite UCI Downhill World Championship. Your ahead of the second placed Sabrina Jonnier was 11.99 seconds in the final.

At the age of eight years Atherton BMX began to drive, with eleven she already drove mountain bike. Since 2007, Rachel goes together with her brothers Gee Atherton and Dan Atherton for the Animal Commencal International Pro Mountain Bike Race Team in the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup. She won the 2007 the downhill World Cup race in Marburg (Slovenia ), 2008, the race in Vallnord (Andorra ), Mont Sainte -Anne ( Canada ), Bromont (Canada) and Schladming ( Austria ) and thus won the overall World Cup downhill. Your life as a professional biker and that of her two brothers is also shown in the short documentary " The Atherton Project" and aired on freecaster.tv.

2009 was sidelined for 14 months Rachel Atherton as she was hit on her race bike in California on April 18 by a pick- up truck and tore a nerve in this accident in her left shoulder.

Since 2012 drives Rachel Atherton, together with her siblings Gee Atherton and Dan Atherton, for the GT Factory Racing Team.