Anna Elizabeth Christian (born 6 August 1995) is a Manx former

racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo ...

, who competed professionally between 2015 and 2022 for

UCI Women's Team A UCI Women's Team is a women's road bicycle team sanctioned by the International Cycling Union ( UCI). These teams compete in the major women's bicycle races including the UCI Women's World Tour. The country designation of each team is determine ...

s and . She rode at the

2014 UCI Road World Championships The 2014 UCI Road World Championships took place in Ponferrada, Spain, from 21 to 28 September 2014. The cycling championships consisted of 12 events for elite, under-23 and junior cyclists. It was the 81st UCI Road World Championships and the s ...

for Great Britain, and competed for the Isle of Man at three

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...

between

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

and

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

. Christian became British Junior Road Race Champion in 2013. In October 2014 it was announced that she would join the team in 2015. At the 2017 Tour of Wolds, which was part of the National Women's road series, Christian finished second. In 2017 she won the inaugural women's under-23

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on home soil on the Isle of Man.

Personal life

She is the sister of fellow racing cyclist

Mark Christian Mark Peter Christian (born 20 November 1990) is a Manx former racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI ProTeam . A former member of the Great Britain Olympic Development Program, Christian won a bronze medal for the Isle of Man at the 2010 Common ...

Major results

Source: ;2013 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;2017 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

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, National Under-23 Road Championships : 2nd Tour of the Wolds ;2018 : 9th

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Christian, Anna 1995 births Living people Manx female cyclists People from Douglas, Isle of Man Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games