Winner of three UCI Downhill MTB Masters World Champion jerseys, who has also raced in 20 UCI World Cups, Petra is passionate about cycling. She competed in this year’s UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Glasgow as well as taking part in Badlands, an 800km unsupported gravel ride across Spain. She is keen to promote gravel riding to women set up a gravel and MTB group from a local bike shop in Frome, Somerset.

“I just love racing. I love being in an environment with all these people doing the same thing and I always want to push hard for myself.”

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