Emily Batty

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Emily Batty Road cycling
Emily Batty, Trek Factory Racing, 2013
Emily Batty, Trek Factory Racing, 2013
To person
Date of birth 16th June 1988 (age 32)
nation CanadaCanada Canada
discipline Mountain bike
Team (s)
Subaru Trek Team
Trek Factory Racing Team 		Since 2011
2013
Last updated: March 22, 2019

Emily Batty (born June 16, 1988 in Brooklin , Ontario ) is a Canadian cross-country mountain biker . She became the 2014 Pan American Games Champion and won the 2014 Commonwealth Games silver medal .

Career

Emily Batty started cycling in 1999 and took part in the 2001 Canada Cup series. She took part in the 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup for Trek World Racing . She joined the Subaru Trek Team in 2011.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics , she competed in Women's Cross-Country at Hadleigh Farm with a broken collarbone and injured shoulders , finishing in 24th place. She was part of the Trek Factory Racing Team in 2013. After the Olympics, she made it onto the podium at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow . She won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in 2015.

In 2016 she won the bronze medal at the Mountain Bike World Championships, at the Summer Olympics in Rio she was fourth and the World Cup finished third. In addition, she was Canadian champion in cross country.

In July 2018, the 30-year-old finished second in the World Cup in Val di Sole (Italy) behind Maja Włoszczowska from Poland .

Private

Emily Batty grew up in a cycling family. She has two older brothers and a younger sister who all take part in cycling races. During her races, she wears a pearl necklace that she found on her mother's jewelry when she was eleven. She is coached by Adam Morka , whom she got engaged to in 2011 and whom she married in 2015.

Web links

Commons : Emily Batty  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Canada's Emily Batty wins bronze in the World Cup mountain biking event . In: The Globe and Mail , June 15, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013. 
  2. ^ Sue George: Batty races Olympics despite cracked collarbone . cyclingnews.com. August 11, 2012. Archived from the original on November 19, 2013. Retrieved on November 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ Lou Mazzante: Emily Batty Interview: Bright Eyes . In: Bike Magazine . No. Sept / Oct 2009, September. Accessed November 20, 2013.
  4. ^ Sue George: Batty joins Trek World Racing . In: Cyclingnews.com . Immediate Media Company. January 22, 2010. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  5. ↑ Sue George: Batty switches to Subaru-Trek team . In: Cyclingnews.com . Immediate Media Company. December 9, 2010. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  6. ↑ Emily Batty . cyclingnews.com. 2013. Archived from the original on November 19, 2013. Retrieved on November 19, 2013.
  7. ↑ Canada claims double gold, silver in Pan Am mountain biking | Toronto Star .
  8. ↑ Results of Emily Batty , mtbcrosscountry.com, accessed on 22 December 2017
  9. ↑ Maja Włoszczowska: Another World Cup victory in Val di Sole after six years (July 8, 2018)
  10. ↑ Emily Batty . olympic approx. Archived from the original on November 20, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  11. ^ Sue George: Emily Batty climbs the ranks . cyclingnews.com. December 5, 2011. Archived from the original on November 20, 2013. Retrieved on November 20, 2013.
  12. ^ Brian McNair: Brooklin's Emily Batty heading home to Hardwood Hills for Pan Am Games. London Olympian expects medal in Toronto and at least two more Olympic appearances. Whitby This Week, July 8, 2015. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Batty, Emily
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian cross-country mountain biker
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklin , Ontario