title: Manon Carpenter
text: # Manon Carpenter
  
  Manon Rose Carpenter (born 11 March 1993) is a Welsh, professional racing cyclist formerly specialising in downhill mountain bike racing.
  
  Carpenter is from Caerphilly, South Wales. She was inspired to take up the sport by her father, Jason, a BMX track builder who also ran a DH race series in South Wales. Carpenter attended St. Martin's Comprehensive School, Caerphilly and is taking a gap year to concentrate on her sport before studying a science and Spanish degree in Manchester.
  
  In 2011, Manon Carpenter won the Junior UCI Downhill World Championship and the Junior UCI Mountain Bike World Cup overall. In 2013, Manon came third in the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup overall. In 2014 Manon took the world cup overall title and completed the season with the world championship at Hafjell earning the rainbow colour jersey.
  
  She became a double world champion in 2014, winning the UCI Mountain Bike World Championship and the UCI World Cup Mountain Bike Downhill Series. She was also named Elite Cyclist of the Year at the USN Welsh Cycling Awards.
  
  In November 2016 she announced that she was leaving Madison Saracen.
  
  In August 2017 Carpenter announced her retirement from Downhill racing with immediate effect.
  
  ## Results
  
  ### 2011
  
      1st DH, Junior British National Mountain Biking Championships
      1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships Junior, Champéry, France
      1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Series Overall Junior
  
  ### 2012
  
      1st DH, British National Mountain Biking Championships
      2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 1, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
      3rd DH, UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships Elite, Leogang, Austria
  
  ### 2013
  
      2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 1, Fort William, Scotland
      3rd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Series Overall
  
  ### 2014
  
      1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 1, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
      1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 4, Leogang, Austria
      1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 5, Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada
      1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Series Overall
      1st DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, Hafjell, Norway
  
  ### 2015
  
      4th DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 1, Lourdes, France
      4th DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 2, Fort William, Scotland
      DSQ* DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 3, Leogang, Austria
      2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 4, Lenzerheide, Switzerland
      2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 5, Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada
      2nd DH UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 6, Windham, New York, United States
      3rd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 7, Val di Sole, Italy
      2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Series Overall
      2nd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, Vallnord, Andorra
      * Disqualified for leaving track & rejoining further down the track
  
      1st DH, British Downhill Series, Round 1, Ae Forest, Scotland
      3rd DH, British Downhill Series, Round 2, Fort William, Scotland
      1st DH, British Downhill Series, Round 3, Llangollen, Wales
      2nd DH, British Downhill Series, Round 4, Bala, Wales
      1st DH, British Downhill Series, Round 5, Moelfre, Wales
      1st DH, British Downhill Series, Round 6, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales
      1st DH, British Downhill Series, Series Overall
  
  ### 2016 - British Downhill Series
  
      1st DH, British Downhill Series, Round 1, Ae Forest, Scotland
  
  ### 2016 - UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
  
      3rd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 1, Lourdes, France
      3rd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 2, Cairns, Australia
      3rd DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 3, Fort William, Scotland
      5th DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 4, Leogang, Austria
      4th DH, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Round 6, Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada
  