Hunt was the winner of the British National Road Race Championships in 1997 and 2001.

[2] Hunt was born in Canada and grew up in England, firstly in Bury before moving to Devon.

His father had been an amateur racing cyclist, and as a teenager in Devon Hunt was coached by former Tour de France rider Colin Lewis.

[1] He made his professional cycling debut for Banesto in 1996, and rode there for 4 seasons, when in 2000 he began a 3-year stint at BigMat–Auber 93, taking a win against Mario Cipollini in a stage of the Tour Méditerranéen in his first season with the team.

Hunt joined Crédit Agricole in 2008, following the demise of the MrBookmaker, now called Unibet.com.