Photos – The Emily Batty Story

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Emily Batty (born June 16, 1988) is a Canadian cross-country mountain biker.

She won a bronze medal at the 2016 World Championships.

Batty is the current Pan American Games champion and was the silver medalist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

She won the gold medal at the Pan Am games in Toronto in 2015 in her home country.

Batty started racing in 1999 and raced in the Canada Cup Series by 2001.

She competed for Trek World Racing in the 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup season.

Batty switched to the Subaru-Trek team in 2011.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed with a broken collar bone and bruised shoulders in the Women’s cross-countryat Hadleigh Farm, finishing in 24th place.

After the Olympics Emily broke through onto the podium at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

There she finished second on the podium behind teammate Catharine Pendrel.

Image Courtesy – Emily Batty ( Instagram )