Career
He started his career as an athlete at 6 years old as a BMX rider and then a freestyle ski pro. Cedric Gracia, years later, became a mountain bike rider. He entered the professional mountain biking scene in 2001, then part of the Volvo/Cannondale team
He races in downhill and four-cross (4X) on the UCI World circuit.
Gracia rode for the Rainer-Wurz Siemens Cannondale team between 1999 and 2005, before joining the Commencal team in 2006. In 2008 he took part as a guest editor for the 20th anniversary issue of Mountain Biking United Kingdom (MBUK) magazine.
In 2008, he also participated in the new Red Bulletin Rampage: Evolution. In 2010 Gracia started his own team, the CG Racing Brigade.
They are two of very few riders outside the Santa Cruz Syndicate to be using the carbon V-10 downhill bike during the 2011 season.
In 2012 Gracia had a major crash during practice at the Via Delegate Sole race of the World Cup, and “almost died twice” in the days following. In 2013, at the Vallnord race of the World Cup, Gracia announced his retirement from World Cup downhill racing to focus on “movie parts with big jumps” and Enduro racing.