Rachel Atherton is BT Sport Action Woman of the Year

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Rachel Atherton was tonight named the “BT Sport Action Woman of the Year”, beating nine other fantastic athletes shortlisted against her (eight of them current Olympians or Para Olympians…). The glittery ceremony was broadcast live and hosted by Clare Balding and Gary Lineker

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It’s great to see downhill mountain biking getting mainstream recognition ahead of the Olympics.
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Rachel told girls to shrug off the crashes and scrapes and get riding.

Rachel was obviously delighted to win against such a strong field of competitors, and used her acceptance speech to encourage all girls, young and old, to give mountain biking a try. After such a successful season, and despite it being an Olympic year, we feel that she got a publicly-voted award that she definitely deserves.

Here’s a link to the video:
http://sport.bt.com/bt-sport-action-woman-of-the-year-2016-rachel-atherton-91364120948202

In third place was Maddie Hinch the British Olympic field hockey goalkeeper and second was Charlotte Dujardin OBE the Olympic dressage rider. The full (and impressive) list of nominees is here.

Way to go, Rach!

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Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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