Xan Crees

Xan Crees
Personal information
Born (2000-12-27) 27 December 2000 (age 24)[1]
Team information
Current teamSpectra Racing
Discipline
  • Gravel
  • Cyclo-cross
RoleRider
Amateur team
2021-Spectra Racing

Xan Crees (born 27 December 2000) is a British cyclist who rides for Spectra Racing. She won the British National Gravel Championship in 2023. In 2025, she won the British National Cyclo-cross Championships.

Early life

From Derby, she became interested in cycling at an early age after watching her father compete in 24-hour races and joined her local cycling club Derby Mercury. She played a number of sports as a youngster, including netball, MMA, and swimming. She graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in natural sciences.[2][3]

Career

She joined Spectra Racing ahead of the 2021-22 cyclocross season, in which she won a silver medal in the under-23 British National Championships.[2]

She won the British National Gravel Championship in Suffolk in 2023.[4] In December 2023, she won her first senior National Trophy Series cyclocross race in Gravesend.[5]

She won the elite women's race at the British National Cyclo-cross Championships in January 2025, defeating Cat Ferguson into second-place.[6]

Major results

Cyclo-cross

2022–2023
2nd National Under-23 Championships
2024–2025
1st National Championships

Gravel

2023
1st National Championships

References

  1. ^ "Xan Crees". Procyclingstats. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Xan Crees". Rijden.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  3. ^ Davidson, Tom (16 January 2025). "'I woke up the next day and cried within the first five minutes' - Meet British cyclo-cross champion Xan Crees". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  4. ^ Davidson, Tom (16 September 2023). "Joe Blackmore and Xan Crees win British Gravel Championships". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  5. ^ "Xan Crees and Ben Chilton Take First National Trophy Victories at Gravesend". British Cycling. 11 December 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  6. ^ Frattini, Kirsten (12 January 2025). "British Cyclocross National Championships: Xan Crees holds off Cat Ferguson to win elite women's title". Cycling News. Retrieved 13 January 2025.