Christopher Blevins (born March 14, 1998) is an American cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Mountain Bike Team Specialized Factory Racing. Specializing in

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, Blevins has also previously competed in road cycling (for ) and cyclo-cross, before choosing to solely focus on mountain biking in preparation for the

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Biography

Early life

Blevins was born on March 14, 1998, in

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, son of Field and Priscilla His father is an orthopedic surgeon with a specialty in sports medicine and his older sister Kaylee was also a member of the U.S. National mountain bike team. He went to college in San Luis Obispo, CA graduating from Cal Poly in 2021 with a degree in

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with a concentration in entrepreneurship. Additionally, he teaches voluntarily spoken-word poetry in a local juvenile hall and is a lyricist of rap music.

Career

Blevins began participating in the sport of cycling at the age of five by competing in

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races. He managed to win eight

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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 A mountain bike (MTB) or mountain bicycle is a bicycle designed for off-road cycling. Mountain bikes share some similarities with other bicycles, but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain, which ...

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. 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 The Peace Race (german: Friedensfahrt, cs, Závod míru, sk, Preteky mieru, russian: Велогонка Мира (), pl, Wyścig Pokoju , french: Course de la Paix, it, Corsa della Pace, ro, Cursa Păcii) was an annual multiple stage bicycl ...

. This race provided him the opportunity to join the team . In the same year, he signed another contract with the

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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. 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

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. In August 2021, he became the inaugural men's cross-country short track world champion, taking the title at the

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in Val di Sole, Italy.

Major results

Mountain bike

;2015 : 2nd Silver medal america

Team relay, Pan American Championships ;2016 : 1st MaillotUSA

Cross-country, National Junior Championships ;2017 : 1st MaillotUSA

Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships ;2018 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships : 3rd Cross-country,

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;2019 : Pan American Championships ::1st Gold medal america

Under-23 Cross-country ::2nd Silver medal america

Team relay : 2nd Silver medal blank

Team relay, UCI World Championships ;2020 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships : 3rd Overall UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup ::2nd Nové Město II ;2021 : UCI World Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

Short track ::2nd Silver medal blank

Team relay : UCI XCO World Cup ::1st Snowshoe : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Cross-country, UCI World E-MTB Championships ;2022 : UCI XCC World Cup ::1st Snowshoe : 2nd Cross-country,

: 3rd

Team relay, UCI World Championships : 3rd Overall

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(with

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) ;2023 : 1st Jersey yellow Cape Epic

Overall

(with

) ::1st Prologue & Stages 2, 3, 4 & 6 : UCI XCC World Cup ::3rd Mont-Sainte-Anne

Road

;2015 : 1st Stage 4

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: 6th Overall

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::1st Mountains classification ;2016 : 1st Overall

Course de la Paix Juniors The Peace Race Juniors, officially known as the Course de la Paix Juniors, is a junior (ages 17-18) multi-day cycling race held annually in the Czech Republic. It is part of the UCI Junior Nations' Cup, and is the junior version of the Peace Race ...

;2018 : 4th Overall

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::1st Stage 2 : 9th Overall Tour of the Gila ::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 2

Cyclo-cross

;2014–2015 : 3rd Bronze medal america

Pan American Junior Championships The Pan American U20 Athletics Championships are a biennial sports event for track and field organized by the Association of Panamerican Athletics (APA) open for junior (U20) athletes from member and associate member associations. They were first h ...

;2017–2018 : 1st MaillotUSA

National Under-23 Championships : Under-23 CXLA Weekend ::1st Day 1 & 2 ;2021–2022 : USCX Series ::3rd

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Blevins, Christopher 1998 births Living people American male cyclists Cyclo-cross cyclists People from Durango, Colorado American mountain bikers Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for the United States Cyclists from Colorado