Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast. My name's Sarah Moore, and today we've got a special

episode for you with Gracie Hemstreet. Gracie's the 19-year-old from the Sunshine Coast on

British Columbia, who just made history as the first woman to ever complete a top-to-bottom run

at Red Bull Hardline in Tasmania. Gracie's dad is one of the founders of the Coast Gravity

Park, and so she grew up chasing the likes of Curtis Robinson and Dylan Dungerton on the monster jumps of coastal

cruise before bursting onto the international downhill scene in the junior category with a fifth

place in her first ever World Cup race. She followed that up with a third place at world

championships in Baldassol, and then she won the overall in just her second year of juniors. We chatted about what her process was like to make it

through the Red Bull Hardline course and take off one massive feature after another, what her

goal was coming into the event, whether we'll see her at Red Bull Hardline in Wales one of these

days, what it's been like to have Greg Minar join Norco Factory

Racing, and what our goals are heading into her second year of downhill racing in the elite

category. I hope you enjoy the conversation.

Fresh off making history as the first woman to complete a top-to-bottom run at Red Bull Hardline,

Gracie Hemstreet, welcome to the Pinkfike podcast.

Thank you.

Yeah, looking forward to chatting with you.

What's the reception been like from people at home so far about your win or your... Do you consider it a win when you didn't have like a dedicated women's category or what do you look at it? Is that?

I look at it just, I don't know, completing it. Yeah.

But yeah, we made. Yeah, completing it. Yeah. But, yeah, we made it.

Yeah, so what's the reception been like?

Pretty much every person I've seen has said, congratulations.

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