| Format | Rank | Total points |
|---|---|---|
XCO | 17 | 894 |
XCC | 26 | 528 |
Outside of racing, Alan enjoys spending time with family and friends, riding motorbikes (enduro or adventure), and going on long drives.
Alan’s daily routine starts early—waking up between 4:30 and 7:30 a.m., depending on training duration, to beat the South African summer heat. His day typically includes coffee and breakfast, a training ride, lunch with his wife, meetings or a second session, and sometimes an afternoon nap if time allows. Evenings are spent cooking or dining out, spending time with family, and winding down before bed around 22:00. Alan’s biggest career achievements include: 2× Elite XCO UCI World Champion (2024, 2025) Bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (MTB XCO) Overall XCO UCI World Cup Winner (2024) Overall XCC UCI World Cup Winner (2022) Elite E-MTB UCI World Champion (2019) U23 XCO UCI World Champion (2018) His ultimate career goal is to win Olympic gold in MTB. His favorite place to ride is Andorra, thanks to its stunning mountains and challenging terrain.
| Pos. | Athlete / Event | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Momentum Medical Scheme Attakwas Extreme Presented By Biogen - XCM Oudtshoorn Men Elite - Cross-country marathon | 4:25:10 |
The 2024 UCI Cross-country (XCO) World Champion and UCI XCO World Cup overall series winner Alan Hatherly has joined the WorldTour road cycling team Jayco-AluLa for 2025. The 28-year-old South African has signed a two-year contract with the Australian outfit and will aim to compete across the road and off-road. As Giant is the official bike supplier of Jayco-AluLa, the UCI World Champion will ride for Giant Factory Racing when racing in the 2025 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series. It caps a phenomenal year for Hatherly, who also secured a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games alongside his victories in the UCI XCO World Championship, two UCI XCO World Cups (Les Gets, Haute-Savoie in France; Mont-Sainte- Anne, Canada), and a UCI XCC World Cup (also in Les Gets, Haute-Savoie). “I am incredibly excited for this new chapter in my cycling career and very grateful for the opportunity to ride for GreenEDGE Cycling for the next two seasons. I think now is the perfect moment for me to get out of the comfort zone and develop even further. Moving to a WorldTour road team is of course something totally new for me, it will be a steep learning curve, and I will be learning from the best. Combining road and MTB is new and refreshing and I am really looking forward to where this journey can go!” he said. While he has spent the majority of his time on two wheels off-road, road cycling isn’t completely new to Hatherly and he has shown he can translate his racing prowess to the tarmac – finishing second in the 2024 South African national time trial championships and winning the five-day Tour du Cap stage race. The move to a multi-discipline calendar makes Hatherly part of a growing group of riders who choose to juggle both the road and off-road disciplines, including double Olympic champion Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers), 2023 UCI XCO World Cup overall series winner Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck). Hatherly’s transfer also brings to an end a four-year relationship with Cannondale Factory Racing – the team he made his breakthrough with on the world stage and won the 2022 UCI XCC World Cup overall title.
