en Christopher Blevins

Christopher Blevins
	Blevins in 2017
Personal information
Born	March 14, 1998 (age 26); Durango, Colorado, United States
Team information
Current team	Specialized Factory Racing
Disciplines	Mountain bike; Road; Cyclo-cross;
Role	Rider
Professional teams
2017–2018	Axeon–Hagens Berman
2017–2020	Specialized Racing
2021	Trinity Racing
2022–	Specialized Factory Racing
Major wins
	World Short Track Championships (2021) XC World Cup 2 individual wins (2021, 2024) Cape Epic (2023)
Medal record
Representing United States
Men's mountain bike racing
World Championships
Men's cross-country marathon
World Championships

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

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 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]