- Gary Fisher
Gary Christopher Fisher (born 1950) is considered one of the inventors of the mountain bike. Fisher started competing in road and track races at the age of 12. He was suspended from the sport in 1968 because race organizers felt his hair was too long, and cited a rule that agreed with them. But by 1972 this rule had been repealed and Fisher's cycling career continued. In more recent decades, Gary has won the difficult TransAlp race in Europe and a Masters XC national title.
- Cadel Evans
Cadel Evans (born 14 February, 1977 in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia) is a professional cyclist. Prior to turning to road cycling in 2001, Evans was a champion mountain biker, riding for the Volvo-Cannondale MTB team, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing 7th in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
- Keith Bontrager
Keith Bontrager (born December 18, 1954) was a successful motorcycle racer turned pioneer in the development of the modern mountain bike. Between 1980 and 1995 he was president of Bontrager Cycles, prior to a buy out by the Trek Bicycle Corporation. Keith continues to develop advanced components for Trek.
- Travis Brown
Travis Brown (born August 7, 1969) is an American professional bicycle racer. He primarily competes in cross-country mountain bike and cyclo-cross races but has also raced on road bicycles from time to time. Brown started racing professionally in 1990 and partially retired at the end of the 2004 season. Brown is still taking part in mountain bike and cyclo-cross races as of 2005, however, he is not entering as many events as he did in the past.
- Ned Overend
Edmund "Ned" Overend (born 20 August 1955 in Taipei, Taiwan), the son of a U.S. diplomat, started in mountain biking in the early 1980s. He was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1990 and the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2001. Even though he retired from Pro Mountain biking in 1996, he continued competing in endurance competitions like the XTERRA Triathlon, and regular road triathlons.
- Steve Peat
Steve Peat (born June 17, 1974) is a professional downhill mountain biker, born in Chapeltown, South Yorkshire, England. Prior to his career as a professional downhill cyclist Peat was employed as a plumber. He is married to Adele Croxon and has a son, Jake Peat. Peat began his career with little success riding for the Saracen team alongside Rob Warner, before moving in the mid nineties to Team MBUK.
- Ryan Leech
Ryan Leech (born 1979, British Columbia, Canada) is a professional trials mountain bike rider. At 14 he began racing mountain, inspired by Team ORB. Ryan began getting increasingly involved in trials riding throughout the mid 90's. At age 16 Ryan became one of the youngest trials event organizers ever after he organized and won a competition in which he held in his front yard.
- Michael Rasmussen
Michael Rasmussen is a Danish professional road bicycle racer who rides for Dutch team Rabobank. Specializing in climbing, Rasmussen has shown a propensity for attempting spectacular stage wins in mountain stages in which he breaks away from the peloton early and rides alone for most of the stage. Michael Rasmussen is known for his care for detail when considering weight and he is known to constantly pester his mechanics to make his bike lighter.
- Greg Minnaar
Greg Minnaar (born November 13, 1981 in Pietermaritzburg) is a South African world champion mountain bike racer competing in downhill cycling. He is currently part of the "Team G Cross Honda" and competes in the NORBA and Mountain Bike World Cup points series races.
- Tinker Juarez
David Juarez (born March 4, 1961 in Downey, California USA) is a former professional "Old School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer and current top mountain bike racer whose prime competitive years in BMX were from 1978 to 1984 and in mountain bike racing 1986 to the present. Since 1986, he has been a mountain bike racer and since late 2005, competing as a ultra-distance road bike racer. In all three disciplines, he has won numerous national and international competitions.
- Georgia Gould
Riding for the Luna Chix mountain bike team, Georgia Gould is the 2006 NORBA cross country national champion.
- Marla Streb
Marla Streb (born 24 June 1965) is a professional mountain bike racer. She currently rides for the professional trade team Team Luna Chick. Marla is most known for racing downhill and four-cross events, however, she does race XC events and wins such races often. She has twice won the Single Speed World Championship, in 1999 and 2005.
- Ryder Hesjedal
Ryder Hesjedal (born December 9, 1980 in Victoria, British Columbia) in is a Canadian professional cyclist who currently rides for the Health Net Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis cycling team. He is a former mountain biker (having won a silver medal at the 2001 U23 World Mountain Bike Championships) and in 2005 turned professional with the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team after spending several years with the Rabobank amateur team.
- Jeremiah Bishop
Jeremiah Bishop (born 9 March 1976) is a professional mountain bike racer. In 2003, he won the gold medal in the mountain bike event at the XIIV Pan American Games. In Waco, Texas, Bishop took the first 2004 NORBA NMBS race by storm when he became the first American in three years to win the cross-country event. Bishop is a member of the Trek Volkswagen Pro Mountain Bike Team.
- Alison Dunlap
Alison Dunlap (born: July 27, 1969) is an American professional cycle racer who won the World Cross Country Mountain Bike Championship in 2001 and also has 2 Mountain Bike World Cup victories to her credit. In addition, she has a number of high achievements in the road racing aspect of the sport, including a victory in the Redlands Bicycle Classic in 1996.
- Cedric Gracia
Cedric Gracia (born 23 July 1978 in Pau, France) is a French mountain biker. He races in downhill and four cross(4X), and is ranked 5th and 3rd respectively in the UCI World Rankings (as of January 2006). Gracia rode for the Rainer-Wurz Siemens Cannondale team between 1999 and 2005, before joining the Commencal team in 2006. In 2003 Cedric won the Red Bull Rampage, a massive freeride competition.
- Jacquie Phelan
Jacquie "Alice B. Toeclips" Phelan is a former U.S. national champion cyclist and member of the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame and the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame. She is married to another MTB Hall of Fame member, Charlie Cunningham. Jacquie was the founder of the Women's Mountain Bike & Tea Society (WOMBATS). She was the first highly successful female mountain bike racer in the US, with multiple national and world championships from 1983 to 1995.
- Hans Rey
Hansjörg Rey, aka Hans "No Way" Rey. Rey is a pioneer in mountain bike trials riding and extreme mountain biking. Rey began riding in the late 70s. Since 1987, he has ridden exclusively on GT bikes. In 1999 he was inducted to the Mountain bike hall of fame. Over the years he has won a large number of bike trials riding championships, but since 1997 has retired from competitive sports to explore the world on his mountain bike.
- Alison Sydor
Alison Sydor (born September 9, 1966 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian cross country mountain cyclist. She began cycling at age 20 and is a graduate of the University of Victoria. She won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in mountain bike, and has won 3 world mountain bike championships gold medals (1994 in Vail, Colorado; 1995 in Kirchzarten, Germany; 1996 in Cairns, Australia; and the 2002 relay race in Kaprun, …
- Chris Eatough
Chris Eatough (born October 30, 1974) is a mountain bike racer. Chris Eatough became a professional in 1999. He specializes in 24 hour, endurance and ultra-marathon racing events. He has won six 24 Hour Solo World Championship and two 24 Hour Solo NORBA National Championship titles. Trek Bicycle Corporation is a primary sponsor of Chris Eatough, and very proud of the fact that he has won all of his titles on Trek bicycles.
- John Tomac
John Tomac (b. November 3, 1967 in Owosso, Michigan) is a retired professional cyclist who competed in multiple disciplines in road racing and mountain biking during a successful senior career that spanned twenty years. He is regarded as a mountain biking icon and was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1991. He is a true all-rounder, having won major national and international titles in four disciplines.
- Christoph Sauser
Christoph Sauser (born April 13, 1976 in Sigriswil, Switzerland) is a cross-country mountain biker, who won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He was the overall winner of the UCI World Cup in 2004 and 2005,along with taking 2nd in 2002 and 2003, with a 3rd in 2001. He has won a total of 10 World Cups. He came second in the 2005 Mountain Bike World Championships, and third in 2001. He is four times the Swiss champion.
- Julien Absalon
Julien Absalon (born August 16, 1980 in Remiremont) is a French mountain biker. In 2004 he won a gold medal at the Summer Olympics. He currently rides for the professional trade mountain bike team Orbea. Absalon has won three consecutive Mountain Bike World Championships (2004, 2005, 2006).
- Joe Breeze
Joe Breeze (born c. 1954) is a bicycle designer and bicycling advocate. He was an early pioneer in the development of modern mountain bicycles, and is widely considered to be one of its inventors, along with Gary Fisher. He attended Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California, at the foot of Mount Tamalpais. He was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1988. While he continued to develop and refine the mountain bike into the latter 1990's, …
- Bart Brentjens
Bart Jan-Baptist Marie Brentjens (born on October 10, 1968 in Haelen) is a Dutch cyclist specializing in competitive mountain biking. Brentjens won a gold medal for mountain biking in the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first Olympics to recognize cross-country mountain biking as an official event. He followed this success with a bronze medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Previously he won gold at the 1995 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships.
- Wade Simmons
'Wade Simmons is a mountain biker from Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada who has won the Red Bull Rampage Utah 2001 and placed second in the same year in the Red Bull Rampage Australia. He is now currently on the Rocky Mountain bicycles factory team Wade is one of the grandmasters of Freeride mountain biking and was one of the first freeriders to become sponsored.
- Sue Haywood
Sue Haywood born 9 October 1971 is a mountain bike racer. She currently rides for the professional mountain bike team Trek Volkswagen along with Jeremiah Bishop, Travis Brown, Chris Eatough and Lea Davison.
- Tom Ritchey
Tom Ritchey (b. 1956) is a master bicycle frame builder, designer, welder and founder of Ritchey Design. Like many of mountain biking's founding fathers, he is also an accomplished road and mountain bicycle racer in his own right.
- Roland Green
Roland Green (born on 29 July 1974 in Victoria, British Columbia) was a Canadian mountain bike and road bicycle racer. Selected Results *2003 **1st Canadian National MTB Championships **1st overall, Sea Otter Classic **1st NORBA NCS XC, Mt. Snow, Vermont **1st NORBA NCS XC, Sand Point, …
- Michelle Dumaresq
Michelle Dumaresq is a professional downhill mountain bike competitor who has completed male-to-female (MTF) sexual reassignment surgery (SRS). She is from Canada and competes with professional female downhill mountain bike racers. She entered the sport in 2001, six years after completing SRS, when she was discovered riding on Vancouver's North Shore by several top women mountain bikers. Dumaresq was quite open about her history as a MTF transsexual.
- Missy Giove
Missy Giove is a former professional downhill mountain biker, among the most successful in the world, male or female. Her nickname is "The Missile". She is openly lesbian. Giove was one of mountain-bike racing's first mainstream female superstars, did some ads for Reebok, and is the all-time leader in NORBA downhill wins with 14, and is second on the World Cup list with 11. Giove's other accomplishments include three overall NORBA downhill crowns, …
- Anne-Caroline Chausson
Anne-Caroline Chausson (born October 8, 1977 in Dijon, France) is a French downhill time trial and cross-country mass start, dual, and four-cross mountain bicycle racer, best known for having won fifteen Union Cycliste Internationale senior world championship "rainbow jerseys", fourteen continental championships, and seven Mountain Bike World Cup season-ending championships, and, in part in view of which, …
- Matti Lehikoinen
Matti Lehikoinen (born 19 April 1984) is Finland's leading downhill cyclist. His previous achievements include 2001 junior European championship from Italy's Livigno and top-ten placings in the downhill World Cup during 2002-2004. After having ridden a few ears in the team Arai/Global Racing, he joined Team G Cross Honda in 2005. His team mates include South Africa's Greg Minnaar who had been Lehikoinen's team mate since 2001.
- Filip Meirhaeghe
Filip Meirhaeghe (born March 5, 1971 in Gent) is a Belgian cyclist. His primary focus was in mountain bike racing, however, he has also taken part in elite road, cyclo-cross and track cycling. He has won four Mountain Bike World Championships medals, one Olympic medal and a total of 11 World Cup events.
- Greg Herbold
Greg "H-Ball" Herbold is a mountain bike racer. He was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1996. Herbold won the first UCI 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 won the first dual slalom race at Mammoth Mountain in 1987.
- Paola Pezzo
Paola Pezzo (born January 8, 1969 in Bosco Chiesanuova) is a mountain bike racer from Verona, Italy. Pezzo won the female World Mountain Bike Championship title in both 1993 and 1997. In 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, in the USA, she won the Olympic gold medal in mountain biking, when the event made its debut. In 1997 she won the Grundig World Cup crown.
- Andrew Shandro
Andrew Shandro is a professional mountain bicyclist. Shandro has starred in many films and featured in mountain bike magazines worldwide. The majority of Shandro's pictures are taken by his close friend Sterling Lawrence.
- Miguel Martinez
Miguel Martinez (born on January 17, in Fourchambault) is a French cyclist specializing in competitive mountain biking. He won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia after having finished in fourth place in the inaugural event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
- Juli Furtado
Juliana ("Juli") Furtado (born April 4, 1967 in New York City) is an American mountain biker, who began her sports career in skiing. From 1980 to 1987, she was the youngest member of the U.S. National ski team. In 1989, Furtado won the National Road Championship and in 1990 she won the cross-country event in (along with Ned Overend) the first official Mountain Bike World Championship, held in Durango, Colorado. In 1992 she won the downhill world championship.
- Melissa Buhl
Melissa Buhl (born: January 25, 1982) is an American professional downhill and mountain-cross racer who has been racing as pro since 1998. She was the 2005 USAC (USA Cycling) National Pro Downhill Champion and 2002 USAC National Pro Mountain Cross Champion.