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Kalispell’s Grant Named to Mountain Bike World Championship Team

Professional mountain biker joins the Team USA roster for the first time

By Dillon Tabish
Rose Grant. Greg Lindstrom | Flathead Beacon

Rose Grant, a professional mountain bike rider from Kalispell, was named to the national mountain bike world championship team on July 25.

Grant is one of 40 men and women from across the nation who will compete on the U.S. team and race in Vallnord, Andorra, tucked between Spain and France. The world championship event is Aug. 31-Sept. 6.

Athletes will compete in the elite, U23 and junior cross-country races and in the elite and junior downhill contests.

Grant, 33, joins the Team USA roster for the first time, qualifying for elite women cross-country. She is one of only six American athletes in elite women cross-country.

Grant, the top rider in Montana, recently placed high at the USA Cycling Mountain Bike Nationals in Mammoth Lakes, California. She earned third in the cross country race and fourth in the short track cross country. Prior to that, on June 28, she won the U.S. Cup race at Colorado Springs in the short track cross country. She placed second at the Missoula XC on June 20.