Charlie Aldridge
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| Born | 3 April 2001 Perth, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Charlie Aldridge (born 3 April 2001) is a British mountain bike cross country cyclist from Scotland. He was the 2019 Junior World Champion, 2022 British national champion and 2023 U23 World Champion.
Personal life
[edit]Aldridge was born in Perth, Scotland and lives in Crieff. He was a student of mechanical engineering at the University of Edinburgh.[1]
Career
[edit]Aldridge won gold at the 2019 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships held in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada in the junior cross country competition. At that championships he was also part of the relay team that finished sixth overall.[2]
In May, 2022 he won the British National Mountain Biking Championships u23 title at Cannock Chase.[3] It was raced on the same course that would be used for the 2022 Commonwealth Games where Aldridge was chosen to compete for Scotland. The familiarity of this gave him confidence to strive for a medal.[4] However, at the Games Aldridge was looking on course for a bronze medal on the penultimate lap when he had a mechanical issue following a crash. His bike lost its rear derailleur and he ended up finishing sixteenth.[5]
In June, 2022 he won the European Continental Championships XCO U23 race in Anadia, Portugal.[6] In July, 2022 he won bronze at the 2022 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup u23 event in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.[7] He was named in the Britain squad for the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Les Gets, France in August 2022.[8]
In June 2024, he was selected for the British team to compete in the Mountain Biking at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[9]
Major results
[edit]- 2018
- Junior National XC Series
- 1st Dalby Forest
- 1st Kentford
- 2nd Builth Wells
- 2nd Cross-country, National Junior Championships
- 2019
- 1st
Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships - Junior Swiss Bike Cup
- 1st Andermatt
- 1st Overall Junior National XC Series
- 1st Sherwood Pines
- 1st Hadleigh Park
- 1st Cannock Chase
- 2021
- 2nd Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
- 2022
- UEC European Championships
- 1st
Short track - 2nd
Under-23 Cross-country
- 1st
- National Championships
- 1st
Short track - 1st Under-23 Cross-country
- 1st
- 1st
Overall National XC Series
- 1st Tong
- 1st Cannock Chase
- 2nd Newcastleton
- 2nd Fowey
- UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup
- 3rd Lenzerheide
- 3rd Jelenia Góra
- 2023
- 1st Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships
- National Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Short track
- 1st
- National XCO Series
- 1st Winchester
- 1st Fowey
- 3rd
Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships - Greek Series
- 3rd Salamis
- 2024
- National XCO Series
- 1st Cannock Chase
- UCI World Championships
- 2nd
Short track - 4th Cross-country
- 2nd
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 2nd Les Gets
- 2nd Haiming
- Internazionali D’Italia Series
- 3rd Esanatoglia
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 4th Nové Město
- 4th Mont-Sainte-Anne
References
[edit]- ^ "9 Perth and Kinross athletes competing at Commonwealth Games". The Courier. 25 July 2022.
- ^ "Charlie Aldridge Crowned 2019 Cross-Country World Champion". www.britishcycling.org.
- ^ "Scots Continue Cross Country Domination As Glasgow Welcomes The Best Of Bmx". British Cycling.
- ^ "Junior mountain bike champion Charlie Aldridge determined to go for gold in Commonwealth Games debut". Herald Scotland. 31 May 2022.
- ^ "Scots Narrowly Miss Out At Cannock Chase". British Cycling.
- ^ "Charlie Aldridge". MTBdata.com.
- ^ "[Updated with Overall] Final Results from the Lenzerheide XC World Cup 2022". Pink Bike. 10 July 2022.
- ^ "British Cycling Announces Squad For Uci Mountain Bike World Championships". British Cycling.
- ^ "TEAM GB ANNOUNCES FIRST RIDERS SELECTED FOR PARIS 2024 OLYMPIC GAMES". British Cycling. 24 June 2024. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
External links
[edit]- 2001 births
- Living people
- British mountain bikers
- Cross-country mountain bikers
- Scottish male cyclists
- British male cyclists
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland
- Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century British sportsmen
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Scottish mountain bikers
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- Sportspeople from Perth, Scotland
- People from Crieff
- Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
- 21st-century Scottish sportsmen