# Christopher Blevins

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, before choosing to solely focus on mountain biking in preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

## Biography
### Early life

Blevins was born on March 14, 1998, in Durango, Colorado, 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 business administration 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 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.
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. 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.
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. 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. In April, he won the first round of the UCI XCO World Cup in Mairiporã, Brazil.

## 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
       1st Under-23 Cross-country
       2nd Team relay
    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 II

#### 2021

    UCI World Championships
       1st Short track
       2nd Team relay
    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)

#### 2023

    1st Overall Cape Epic (with Matthew Beers)
       1st Prologue & Stages 2, 3, 4 & 6
    UCI XCC World Cup
       3rd Mont-Sainte-Anne

#### 2024

    Pan American Championships
       1st Cross-country
       2nd Short track
    UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Mairiporã
    2nd Marathon, UCI World Championships
    UCI XCC World Cup
       2nd Araxá
       2nd Nové Město

### 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 II

### Gravel
#### 2023

    2nd Low Gap Hopper
    2nd Belgian Waffle Ride Arizona
    3rd Sea Otter Classic Fuego XL

#### 2024

    1st Low Gap Hopper