Kate Courtney on Training, COVID19, New Bike Sponsor, and Inspiring Young Mountain Bikers
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
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4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In 2012, Kate was the first American woman to win a UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Junior title. Then in 2017, she won the Under 23 World Cup Overall title. In 2018, she won gold at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, and then the next year she took the overall UCI Mountain Bike World Cup title. Recently, Kate was named to the 2020 Olympics team for cross country mountain biking.
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| 1:00.7 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today my guest is Kate |
| 1:06.8 | Courtney. So in 2012, Kate was the first American woman to win a UCI Mountain Bike World Cup |
| 1:14.3 | Junior title. And then in 2017, she won the under 23 World Cup overall title. In 2018, |
| 1:21.4 | she won gold at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. And then the next year, she took the |
| 1:26.9 | overall UCI Mountain Bike World Cup title. |
| 1:30.3 | Recently, Kate was named to the 2020 Olympic team for cross-country mountain biking. |
| 1:35.4 | Thanks for joining us, Kate. |
| 1:37.0 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 1:38.1 | Got to start off by asking you how this coronavirus thing is affecting your training with all the races and everything |
| 1:46.0 | sort of up in the air at this point. |
| 1:48.7 | Absolutely. |
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