At the 2009 Junior World Championships in Canberra, New Zealand’s Brook Macdonald stormed the hill to take the gold medal and make his first dent in the world of international mountain bike racing.

Racing since 2006, Brook started to make it big on the senior stage in 2011, when he scored two third place finishes on the UCI World Cup circuit in both Canada and on the famed Fort William track in Scotland.

Going one better in 2012, Brook delivered a prefect run to win the DH World Cup in Val d’Isere, France aboard a Mondraker and he was again standing on the podium with a second in Fort William, Scotland, as part of the Trek World Racing Team in 2013.

But after a season of promise, Brook had to retire early due to a shoulder injury and undergo surgery.

Having made a good recovery, a number of niggling injuries hampered Brook’s podium aspirations over next few seasons.

For the 2018 season, Brook, known to downhill fans around the world as ‘The Bulldog’ for his hard-charging style and never-say-die attitude, returned to the team where he made his name, MS Mondraker, a team he’d last rode for in 2012.

The move proved to be a big success and Brook returned to the World cup podium, scoring third place finishes in Andorra and France despite breaking his collarbone at the opening round of the series after qualifying fastest.

The early part of the 2019 season saw Brook back on top of the sport after wins in the Crankworx races in Rotorua, New Zealand and Innsbruck, Austria.

Unfortunately, though, a serious accident at the UCI MTB World Championships in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada in late summer left Brook with serious injuries.

Despite that, Brook is determined to return to racing in 2020 with his “never-give-up” attitude and he continuously shows why he is nicknamed “the bulldog” as he simply never stops to fight.

Brook made his comeback at the 2020 USI DH MTB World Championships in Leogang (AUT) in impressive style and he is ready for everything what`s about to come.