Team GB squad for MTB World Champs (plus how to watch it for free)

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The UCI MTB World Championships are next week, and Britain will be fielding a decent squad across the age groups in XC and DH.

Tahnee Seagrave, picture by Alex Broadway/SWpix.com

This year’s World Champs are taking place in Pal Arinsal, Andorra. There will be titles up for grabs in Cross-Country XCO Short-Track and Relay, plus E-MTB, and Downhill.

2024 MTB World Championship schedule

(Times shown are UK)

Wednesday August 28

  • Women Elite E-MTB, 2:30pm
  • Men Elite E-MTB, 4:00pm
  • Team Relay XC, 6:00pm

Thursday August 29

  • Women Junior Downhill, 12:00pm
  • Men Junior Downhill, 12:45pm

Friday August 30

  • Women Junior XCO, 11:00am
  • Men Junior XCO, 1:00pm
  • Women U23 Short Track, 5:00pm
  • Men U23 Short Track, 5:45pm
  • Women Elite Short Track, 6:30pm
  • Men Elite Short Track, 7:15pm

Saturday August 31

  • Women Elite Downhill, 1:30pm
  • Men Elite Downhill, 3:00pm

Sunday September 1

  • Women U23 XCO, 10:00am
  • Men U23 XCO, 12:00pm
  • Women Elite XCO, 2:30pm
  • Men Elite XCO, 4:30pm

Great Britain squad for the 2024 UCI MTB World Championships

Evie Richards, picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com

Cross-country

Elite men 

  • Charlie Aldridge 
  • Cameron Orr  
  • Thomas Pidcock 

Under-23 men 

  • Joseph Blackmore 
  • Max Greensill 

Junior men 

  • Alex Hart  
  • Innes McDonald 
  • Max Standen 

Elite women 

  • Annie Last  
  • Evie Richards 
  • Isla Short 

Under-23 women 

  • Ella Maclean-Howell 

Junior women 

  • Bethany-Ann Jackson  
  • Madeline Moorhouse-Smith 
  • Evie Strachan 
  • Daisy Taylor 

Downhill 

Elite men 

  • Joe Breeden 
  • Laurie Greenland 
  • Danny Hart 
  • Charlie Hatton 
  • Bernard Kerr 
  • Matt Walker 
  • Greg Williamson 
  • Reece Wilson 

Elite women

  • Louise-Anna Ferguson 
  • Stacey Fisher 
  • Phoebe Gale 
  • Harriet Harnden 
  • Aimi Kenyon 
  • Mikayla Parton 
  • Tahnée Seagrave 

Junior men 

  • Rudi Eichhorn 
  • Will Haines 
  • Noa Hirst Walker 
  • Oscar Griffiths 
  • George Madley 
  • Daniel Parfitt 
  • Billy Pugh 

Junior women 

  • Heather Wilson 

Watch it for free on The Beeb

As well being broadcast on Eurosport/Warner/Discovery+ like the World Cup races, live coverage of the World Champs will also be streamed of the Elite Downhill and XCO via BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website.

Tom Pidcock, picture by Ed Sykes/SWpix.com

British Cycling press release:

STAR STUDDED LINE-UP TO REPRESENT GREAT BRITAIN AT 2024 UCI MTB WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

British Cycling can announce the 39-strong team representing Great Britain at the 2024 UCI MTB World Championships in Par Arinsal, Andorra, from Wednesday 28 August to Sunday 1 September. 

With riders competing in the cross-country Olympic, cross-country short track and downhill disciplines, the star-studded line-up includes two-time Olympic champion Tom Pidcock, reigning world champion Charlie Hatton and world cup winner Heather Wilson. 

Cross-country 

Fresh from winning his second Olympic gold medal, reigning world champion Tom Pidcock spearheads a strong cross-country squad all vying for a chance to win a rainbow jersey. Pidcock will be joined in the elite men’s category by fellow Olympian Charlie Aldridge and national XCO champion Cameron Orr. In the under-23 races, elite short track national champion Max Greensill will be hunting for a world championships medal alongside Joseph Blackmore, who has had a successful road season with multiple podiums. 

In the elite women’s category, fifth-place Paris 2024 finisher Evie Richards will look to reclaim her title from 2021, with current national champion and 2017 world championships silver medallist Annie Last also taking to the start-line alongside Scottish national champion Isla Short. Ella Maclean-Howell will be the sole under-23 women’s rider, with a fantastic season under her belt which included taking the national title and making her Olympic debut.  

In the junior categories, short-track national champions Evie Strachan and Innes McDonald will be joined by XCO national champions Max Standen and Bethany-Ann Jackson, as well as Alex Hart, Madeline Moorhouse-Smith and Daisy Taylor who have all had successful seasons on the national and international circuit. 

Charlie Hatton, picture by Alex Broadway/SWpix.com

Downhill 

Charlie Hatton will be hoping to defend his world title after a breathtaking performance at Fort William last year having already taken a National Championship silver medal and national series win this year. Last year’s World Championship bronze medallist Laurie Greenland who also has a silver from 2016 on his CV, will be another chasing gold in Andorra.  

Other previous world champions lining up in the elite men’s category include Reece Wilson and Danny Hart, as well as multiple national champion Matt Walker. Joining them will be Bernard Kerr who has had an exceptional season with two Red Bull Hardline podiums, while Joe Breeden and Greg Williamson will also be lining up in the hunt for world status. 

Five-time world medallist Tahnée Seagrave will be one of the favorites in the elite women’s category. Ranked fourth in the world so far this season, Seagrave has a number of world cup downhill podiums on her palmares in 2024. She will be joined on the start line by national champion Hattie Harnden, who has had five world cup podiums in the enduro category this season, and Louise-Anna Ferguson who finished fourth in the world last year. Other ones to watch include riders Stacey Fisher, Phoebe Gale, Mikayla Parton and Aimi Kenyon. 

Heather Wilson spearheads the junior line-up, with a national title and three world cup wins to her name this year. Fellow national champion George Madley will be racing in the junior men’s category with Rudi Eichhorn, Will Haines, Noa Hirst Walker, Oscar Griffiths, Daniel Parfitt and Billy Pugh. 

britishcycling.org

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  • belugabob
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    When providing links, in articles like this, please try to make the link go to the specific page, rather than just the home page of the host site – this will reduce the chances of the reader stumbling across results from events that they haven’t yet seen.

    Don’t ask how I know this…?

    weeksy
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    Only Elites shown live?

    johnjn2000
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    @weeksy, hopefully that reference is only for the Beeb.

    qwerty
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    On a technicality it’s not free on iPlayer, you still need a TV Licence, which I don’t have.

    ocrider
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    It’ll be nice if they do follow the world cup’s lead and televise the juniors. Fingers crossed that there’s something to watch on Thursday

    Big-Bud
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    Whilst not having a TV licence is an offence its currently not possible to,prosecute for not having one .

    eep
    Full Member

    Are the entry rules different for downhill and cross-country?

    Given the difference in profile and funding british cycling have betwwen xc and dh its odd there is such a large team list for dh compared with the xc one.

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    kelvin
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    weeksy
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    wipperman95
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    So no live streams of any races so far; and we wonder why MTB is the poor relation. Not good enough in 2024.

    If Cyclocross can manage to have live coverage of all their races, then what’s the excuse for MTB? If local organisers/ TV can’t afford it, then maybe the UCI shouldn’t give them the championships….

    The XC Relay was definitely streamed live last year, and maybe even the XCO Juniors from memory, as well as U23, Elites…..

    weeksy
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    Wait till you hear that the BBC coverage of the DH is delayed not live ?????

    eckinspain
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    How many men qualify for the Final?

    balfa
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    Anyone know if the short track is on iplayer this evening? Its all a bit vague. If anyone finds a link please share!

    balfa
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    ayjaydoubleyou
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    Both good races (available on disco+ just like a regular WC)

    nice short track course with more singletrack than most.

    camerawork was poor.

    frogstomp
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    Wait till you hear that the BBC coverage of the DH is delayed not live ?????

    Well, doesn’t that just suck! Especially as D+ seem to have ended their £3.99/m offer…

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    lister
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    Coverage of the short track on discovery+ was shocking last night. Cameras were in strange places and there wasn’t a side on view of the finish line.

    The director failed SO many times to choose to follow the leading pair as things got close to the finish. Charlie A made a huge 50/50 overtake move into a flat hairpin but the camera didn’t pan to see how it finished. They almost missed Evie and PPV completely for the last half of the final lap.

    It was awful.

    frogstomp
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    I seem to recall that World Champs TV coverage is provided by the locals rather which is why it is so, ahem, varied..

    keefezza
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    BBC make it so difficult to find out if it’s on.

    Link above from balfa suggests no livestream on BBC. Discovery+ has it on live fortunately.

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    frogstomp
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    Looks like the XC tomorrow should be live at least.

    chrismac
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    Woohooo. Evie won the stripes

    chrismac
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    DH is live on discovery+ in an hour

    janwal
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    Big-bud I don’t know where you got the info that you can’t be prosecuted for no licence. Currently approximately 1000 per week are prosecuted for it.

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/29/tv-licence-fee-scandal-1000-people-week-casually-criminalised

    frogstomp
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    Just a heads up that the XCO has been brought forward (and combined / shortened) to miss the bad weather later. I guess that probably means it won’t be live on iPlayer now – boo!

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