Jenna Hastings

Jenna Hastings (born 10 May 2004) is a New Zealand mountain biker competing in downhill and enduro. She is the current junior women's downhill world champion.

Jenna Hastings
Personal information
Born (2004-05-10) 10 May 2004[1]
Team information
Disciplines
RoleRider
Rider typedownhill
Professional team
2022–presentPivot Factory Racing
Medal record
Representing  New Zealand
Women's cycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 Les GetsJunior downhill

Hastings is from Rotorua where she attended John Paul College.[2] At the secondary school’s mountain bike championships in October 2020 in Wellington, she won in both the enduro and downhill.[2] Aged 15, she won the open-age 2019/2020 Giant 2W Gravity Enduro series with two wins and one second place.[3] At the February 2021 DH National Championships held at the Christchurch Adventure Park, she secured the national title in the woman's junior (U19) category,[4][5] with a time beaten only by the open woman's champion.[6]

In November 2021, she won the UCI-sanctioned and open-age Crankworx Rotorua downhill competition.[7][8] As the overall woman's winner of the Crankworx New Zealand series (four races in Alexandra, Queenstown, Cardrona, and Wānaka),[9] she secured a contract with Pivot Factory Racing to race the 2022 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in the junior elite women's downhill category.[10][5]

In the 2022 season, she rode her inaugural junior women's (under-23[11]) world cup race aged 17 in March in Lourdes, France, and came sixth.[12] Two months later at her second world cup race in the Scottish Fort William, Hastings came fourth.[13] Three weeks later at the next world cup race in the Austrian municipality Leogang, Hastings came in second place.[14] A week later, she competed at Crankworx Innsbruck; she lost time through a fall and came in eleventh place riding in the elite women's category.[15] In July at her fourth world cup race in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, she came third.[16] A week later at her fifth world cup race in Vallnord, Andorra, she again came third.[11][17] The German mountain-bike online magazine MTB News commented after Vallnord that "Jenna Hastings has firmly established herself at the top of the junior field" (Jenna Hastings hat sich an der Spitze des Juniorinnen-Feldes fest etabliert).[18] At the fifth world cup race on 30 July 2022 in Snowshoe, West Virginia, USA, Hastings came fourth.[19] At the 2022 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, she took the world championship title in junior downhill.[20]

References
  1. Jenna Hastings at UCI
  2. "Rotorua's Jenna Hastings shines at three-day secondary schools mountain bike champs". Rotorua Daily Post. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  3. Beck, David (23 February 2020). "Rotorua locals Shaw and Hastings claim Giant 2W Gravity Enduro titles". Rotorua Daily Post. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  4. Spratt, Ed (28 February 2021). "Results: New Zealand DH National Championships 2021". Pinkbike. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  5. Carter, Sammy (23 January 2022). "Rotorua bikers join international teams on their way to the World Cup Circuit". Rotorua Daily Post. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  6. "Blewitt back with a vengeance". Otago Daily Times. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  7. "Hastings and Hamilton savour "unreal" feeling of DH win at Crankworx Rotorua". Cycling New Zealand. 7 November 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  8. "Crankworx Rotorua Downhill presented by Gull". Crankworx. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  9. "Crankworx Summer Series New Zealand". Crankworx. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  10. "Pivot Factory Racing – PFR next gen". Pivot Cycles. 24 January 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  11. Meikle, Hayden (19 July 2022). "Blewitt maintains top form". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  12. "Mountain biking: Stevens-McNab leads way for Kiwi gravity riders in France". Rotorua Daily Post. 28 March 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  13. "Fort William World Cup Gallery". Spoke Magazine. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  14. Bartlett, Keili (13 June 2022). "Gracey Hemstreet lands on the World Cup podium — again". Coast Reporter. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  15. Spratt, Ed (19 June 2022). "Final Results from the Downhill at Crankworx Innsbruck 2022". Pinkbike. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  16. Spratt, Ed (9 July 2022). "[Updated with Overall] Final Results from the Lenzerheide DH World Cup 2022". Pinkbike. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  17. Spratt, Ed (17 July 2022). "[Updated with Overall] Final Results from the Vallnord DH World Cup 2022". Pinkbike. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  18. Sinn, Gregor (17 July 2022). "Don't call it a comeback! – Fotostory vom Finale". MTB News. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  19. Spratt, Ed (17 July 2022). "Final Results from the Snowshoe DH World Cup 2022". Pinkbike. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  20. "Rotorua teenager wins world junior downhill mountainbiking title". Stuff. 28 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
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