Cycling England have just named Peaty as Personality of the Month, check out the article here: Cycling England

Steve’s reaction to winning the “Mountain Bike Personality Of The Year” category in this year’s Singletrack Reader Awards: “It’s great to hear I’ve won the ST award. It’s been a pretty amazing year and I’ve won lots of awards and it’s a pretty good feeling to get recognition. I’ve got a huge following and it’s pretty special for me to have that. I want to thank all those people who follow me and for the reader awards, it really means something for me to have that support”

Read more of Nathan Clarke’s interview with Steve over on Singletrack World.

By Dom Howson courtesy of the www.thestar.co.uk

DOWNHILL mountain biking world champion Steve Peat admits he was ‘blown away’ to land top prize at the 2009 South Yorkshire Sports awards.
The 35-year-old saw off competition from four other world champions, including heptathlete golden girl Jessica Ennis, to scoop the senior performer of the year award at the English Institute of Sport last night.

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Even though Steve Peat’s epic season is over, the accolades keep rolling in, this time in the form of Bike Magazine’s Rider of the Year. In a season that included victories in two of the first three World Cup races, passing Nicolas Vouillez as the all time winningest DH racer, as well as a win at the Lisbon DH, and the World Championships, Peaty was on a rampage all season long and there is no doubt he deserves this prestigious award. Check out the December issue of Bike Magazine to read the awesome article and learn more about the greatest downhiller to ever grace the Planet Earth.

Sept. 21, 2009
Schladming, Austria

It was a great showdown and an amazing end to the 2009 UCI World Cup Downhill Series in Schladming, Austria, as it came down to four racers in contention for the overall title. In the end Sam Hill won the race, and the overall, with Santa Cruz Syndicate’s Greg Minnaar and Steve Peat (SRAM/RockShox) giving chase and placing 2nd and 3rd overall, respectively. Josh Bryceland pulled out a great run to finish the race in 8th place, just .02 seconds behind teammate Steve Peat who struggled to find his rhythm and placed 7th on the day. Minnaar focused on his performance and came back solid, if a little conservative, from his major stack in his qualifier, and placed 3rd. Their efforts boosted the team overall points to the top and the Syndicate won the best downhill team title.

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Final round of the UCI Downhill World Cup takes place this weekend in Schladming Austria. With several riders in with the chance of taking the overall it’s set to be a great finale to the year.

Of course the story of the day is the new World Champ Steve Peat, with his first appearance in his rainbow stripes…

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Sorry about the gallery falling over, it should all be working fine now…

Here it is, courtesy of www.mtbcut.com :

The party is still raging on…

Steve Peat is UCI World Champion 2009! More info from Oz as we get it. Beers all round…!!!