Christopher Blevins
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| Born | March 14, 1998 Durango, Colorado, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Specialized Factory Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2017–2018 | Axeon–Hagens Berman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2020 | Specialized Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Trinity Racing[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Specialized Factory Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Christopher Blevins (born March 14, 1998) is an American cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Mountain Bike Team Specialized Factory Racing. Specializing in cross-country mountain biking, Blevins has also previously competed in road cycling (for Hagens Berman Axeon) and cyclo-cross,[2][3] before choosing to solely focus on mountain biking in preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[4]
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Blevins was born on March 14, 1998, in Durango, Colorado, son of Field and Priscilla[5] His father is an orthopedic surgeon with a specialty in sports medicine[6] and his older sister Kaylee was also a member of the U.S. National mountain bike team.[5] He went to college in San Luis Obispo, CA graduating from Cal Poly in 2021 with a degree in business administration with a concentration in entrepreneurship.[7] Additionally, he teaches voluntarily spoken-word poetry in a local juvenile hall and is a lyricist of rap music.[6]
Career
[edit]Blevins began participating in the sport of cycling at the age of five by competing in BMX races. He managed to win eight national championships in the age divisions between elementary and high school. His BMX career ended at the age of sixteen however, and by the age of twelve he had already begun to compete in both mountain bike and road cycling. He had great success from the ages of thirteen to nineteen where he won the national Cross Country championship in his age group. At sixteen he was able to win the road cycling national championship as well.[8]
When Blevins turned eighteen he won one of the most important races of the junior category in road cycling, the famous Course de la Paix. This race provided him the opportunity to join the team Axeon–Hagens Berman. In the same year, he signed another contract with the Specialized Racing team to participate in the U23 World Cross-Country Championship. In 2018 he managed to win the U23 national cyclo-cross championship. In the same age group, he finished 2nd in the World Cross-Country Championship and also won a stage of the Tour of the Gila. In 2019, aiming for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, he decided to dedicate himself to mountain biking.[8] At the 2020 U23 World Cross-Country Championship he finished 2nd and after the postponing of the Olympic Games due to COVID-19, he signed a 2021 contract with Trinity Racing.[1][9]
In August 2021, he became the inaugural men's cross-country short track world champion, taking the title at the 2021 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Val di Sole, Italy.[10] He also won his first UCI XCO World Cup round, in Snowshoe, West Virginia, that year.
He won the 2023 Cape Epic alongside Matthew Beers. He opened up his 2024 season with a win in the Low Gap Hopper gravel race in California.[11] In April, he won the first round of the UCI XCO World Cup in Mairiporã, Brazil.[12]
Major results
[edit]Mountain bike
[edit]- 2015
- 2nd
Team relay, Pan American Championships - 2016
- 1st
Cross-country, National Junior Championships - 2017
- 1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
- 2018
- 2nd
Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships - 3rd Cross-country, National Championships
- 2019
- Pan American Championships
- 1st
Under-23 Cross-country - 2nd Team relay
- 1st
- 2nd Team relay, UCI World Championships
- 2020
- 2nd Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships
- 3rd Overall UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup
- 2nd Nové Město II
- 2021
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
Short track - 2nd Team relay
- 1st
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Snowshoe
- 3rd
Cross-country, UCI World E-MTB Championships - 2022
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Snowshoe
- 2nd Cross-country, National Championships
- 3rd Team relay, UCI World Championships
- 3rd Overall Cape Epic (with Matthew Beers)
- 2023
- 1st
Overall Cape Epic (with Matthew Beers)
- 1st Prologue & Stages 2, 3, 4 & 6
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 3rd Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 2024
- Pan American Championships
- 1st
Cross-country - 2nd Short track
- 1st
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Mairiporã
- 2nd Marathon, UCI World Championships
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 2nd Araxá
- 2nd Nové Město
Road
[edit]- 2015
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de l'Abitibi
- 6th Overall Trofeo Karlsberg
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
- 2016
- 1st
Overall Course de la Paix Juniors - 2018
- 4th Overall San Dimas Stage Race
- 1st Stage 2
- 9th Overall Tour of the Gila
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 2
- 1st
Cyclo-cross
[edit]- 2014–2015
- 3rd
Pan American Junior Championships - 2017–2018
- 1st National Under-23 Championships
- Under-23 CXLA Weekend
- 1st Day 1 & 2
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- 2021–2022
- USCX Series
- 3rd Baltimore II
Gravel
[edit]- 2023
- 2nd Low Gap Hopper
- 2nd Belgian Waffle Ride Arizona
- 3rd Sea Otter Classic Fuego XL
- 2024
- 1st Low Gap Hopper
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Trinity Racing MTB". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on March 1, 2021. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
- ^ "Christopher Blevins". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
- ^ "Christopher Blevins". FirstCycling.com. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
- ^ Cash, Dane (November 16, 2018). "Blevins leaves road behind to focus on Olympic MTB dream". VeloNews.com. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
- ^ a b "Κaylee Βlevins". USA CYCLING. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
- ^ a b Malach, Pat (November 26, 2018). "Christopher Blevins: Cycling's slam poet". cyclingnews. Archived from the original on December 6, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
- ^ "'I've Been Dreaming of This Every Day.' Recent Grad Heads to Tokyo to Cycle for Team USA | Cal Poly". July 23, 2021.
- ^ a b "CHRISTOPHER BLEVINS". USA CYCLING. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
- ^ "Trinity Racing launches mountain bike program around Americans Christopher Blevins and Haley Batten". VeloNews. December 21, 2020. Archived from the original on December 21, 2020. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
- ^ Jones, Rob (August 26, 2021). "MTB Worlds: Blevins, Frei win short track titles". CyclingNews. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
- ^ Jones-Wilkins, Logan (January 29, 2024). "Low Gap Hopper: Christopher Blevins and Kate Courtney take wins to open the US gravel season". Global Cycling Network. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
- ^ Giuliani, Simone (April 14, 2024). "MTB World Cup Mairiporã – Christopher Blevins captures XCO win in opening round". Cycling News. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
External links
[edit]- Christopher Blevins at UCI
- Christopher Blevins at Cycling Archives
- Christopher Blevins at ProCyclingStats
- Christopher Blevins at Cycling Quotient
- Christopher Blevins at MTB Data
- 1998 births
- Living people
- American male cyclists
- American cyclo-cross cyclists
- People from Durango, Colorado
- California Polytechnic State University alumni
- American mountain bikers
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for the United States
- Cyclists from Colorado
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century American sportsmen