Haley Batten

Haley Batten
Personal information
Born	September 19, 1998 (age 25); Park City, Utah
Team information
Current team	Specialized Racing
Discipline	Mountain bike
Role	Rider
Rider type	Cross-country
Professional teams
2016–2019	Clif Pro Team
2019-2021	Trinity Racing
2021–	Specialized Racing
Major wins
	Mountain bike XC World Cup 1 individual win (2024) Cape Epic (2023)
Medal record
Women's mountain bike racing
Representing the United States

{Haley Batten (born September 19, 1998) is an American cross-country mountain biker.

From Park City, Utah, Batten studied at Quest University, Canada. Batten won national titles as a junior and another at U23 level, and won a U23 World Cup, and was part of the USA team relay at the 2019 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships where they earned a silver medal in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada.^[1] Batten rode for the Clif Pro Team from 2016 to 2019, Specialized Racing for 2020, Trinity Racing in 2021, and Specialized Factory Racing from 2022 to present. Batten rode to a third-place finish at her first elite World Cup XCO race in Albstadt, Germany.^[2] On Friday 14 May 2021 Batten won the short-track cross-country MTB World Cup race in the Czech Republic.^[3]^[4] She followed this up finishing in 2nd place at the Nové Město XCO World Cup race punching her ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as the finish met USA Cycling’s automatic criteria for making the team.^[5]^[6]

During the first World Cups of 2024 in Brazil, Haley won a bronze in Maripora XCO and the following weekend in Araxa she was 1st in the XCC and XCO. These podiums in Brazil put Haley into both XCC and XCO leader jerseys. During the 3rd World Cup in Nove Mesto Na Morave she placed 3rd in the XCC and 2nd in the XCO. She would continue on to the 4th World Cup at Val d' Sole ranked 1st in XCO.

Haley's results in Brazil qualified her for the 2024 Paris Olympics.