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Biography
Early life
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
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 became 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 You have called {{Contentious topics}}
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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]
Major results
Mountain Bike
- 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
- 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 #2
- 2021
- UCI World Championships
- 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)
Road
- 2015
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de l'Abitibi
- 6th Overall Trofeo Karlsberg
- 1st Mountains classification
- 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
Cyclo-cross
- 2014–2015
- 3rd Pan American Junior Championships
- 2017–2018
- 1st National Under-23 Championships
- Under-23 CXLA Weekend
- 1st Day 1 & 2
- 2021–2022
- USCX Series
- 3rd Baltimore Day 2
References
- ^ 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.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ 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".
- ^ 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.
External links
- Christopher Blevins at ProCyclingStats
- Christopher Blevins at UCI