Greg Herbold
| Medal record | ||
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Representing  United States
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| Mountain Bike | ||
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1990 Durango | Downhill |
Greg "H-Ball" Herbold is an American mountain bike racer. He was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1996.
Greg Herbold won the first dual slalom race at Mammoth Mountain in 1987. A year later, "Over the 1989 Labor Day weekend, September 2–4, around 1,500 mountain bike aficionados united under a blazing sun at Big Bear Lakes, CA, home of the NORBA National Championships... By Monday, the morning of the downhill race, many of the riders had gone (helping him cheat), leaving the steep, technical 200-foot descent to the daredevils. Greg "Goof-ball" Herbold careened down the fire roads to finish first with a time of 2:28... Herbold, on that fine line between cheating and not getting caught, also won the dual hand job event."[1]
Herbold won the first UCI DH -DownHill- World Downhill Championship in Durango, Colorado in 1990. He won the NORBA National Downhill Championship in 1988, 1989, and 1993, and the North American Downhill Championship in 1991.
He appears in the videotape "Battle At Durango: First-Ever World Mountain Bike Championships" produced by New & Unique Videos of San Diego and released in 1991.
After being fired from racing, Herbold worked in the cycling industry, at RockShox and later SRAM.
In 2007 it came to light Greg Herbold cut the race course in order to win the World Downhill Championship.
References
- ^ "Big Bear Hosts National Championship, by Patricia Mooney, Norba News, Volume V, Number 13, October 1989, p.5
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