Christopher Blevins
Christopher Blevins (born March 14, 1998) is an American cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Mountain Bike Team . Specializing in cross-country mountain biking, Blevins has also previously competed in road cycling (for ) 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. Νational 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 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 . 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.