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Neah Evans

Scottish cyclist (born 1990) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Neah Evans
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Neah Alexina Evans (born 1 August 1990) is a Scottish professional racing cyclist specialising in track endurance events. Representing Great Britain at the Olympic Games, European Championships and World Championships, and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games, Evans is an Olympic medalist in the team pursuit, a World points race champion, a six-time European champion in team pursuit (4), individual pursuit and the madison, and a Commonwealth Games medalist.

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In June 2021, Evans was selected as part of Team GB's cycling squad for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she won a silver medal in the team pursuit event. In 2022, she won a gold medal in the points race at the Track Cycling World Championships.[2]

Evans rode for Podium Ambition Pro Cycling.[3]

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Evans was born in 1990. Her parents are Malcolm and Ros Evans. Her mother is an international orienteer and fell runner who competed in cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.[4] Neah Evans lives in Cuminestown near Turriff. She and her parents live in Aberdeenshire in north-east Scotland.[5]

She worked as a veterinary surgeon before becoming a full-time athlete in 2017.[6] Evans raced in every round of the Revolution series as she helped Podium Ambition win the overall Elite women's title. Evans notably placed her team first in round three despite being on her own;[7] and beat Laura Kenny in the omnium event in London.[8] At the London 6 days event, Evans won one of the ten races to finish second in the women's omnium to Katie Archibald.[9][10] Evans was selected to represent Britain at the Cali World Cup event in 2017.[11]

At the opening round of the 2017–18 World Cup track series, Evans won the scratch race only to be relegated to fourth after being deemed to have gained an advantage by going on to the track's blue strip (côte d'azur).[12] Evans was part of the team pursuit that claimed the bronze medal in Pruszkow.[13] She also won a solo bronze medal for Scotland in the points race at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Evans was chosen to be part of Team GB's cycling squad for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she is joined by Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker, Laura Kenny and Josie Knight for the endurance races.[14] The team won the silver medal in the women's team pursuit event.

At the 2022 British National Track Championships in Newport, Wales she won two British titles after winning the pursuit and points events.[15] She subsequently won the British National Madison Championships with Laura Kenny in April.[16]

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games in July, Evans won points race silver and individual pursuit bronze.[17][18]

Evans won two more national titles at the 2023 British Cycling National Track Championships, bringing her total to 7, she won the individual pursuit for the second time and the points race for the third time.[19]

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Personal life

Evans' boyfriend is the cyclist Jonathan Wale.[5] One of her brothers, Donald Evans, won gold for Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Rowing Championships,[20] bronze for GB at the World University Rowing Championships,[21] and held an indoor rowing world record between 2016 and 2018.[22]

Major results

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Source: [23]

Track

2016
1st Derny, National Championships
2nd Omnium, Six Days of London
2017
UCI World Cup
1st Team pursuit, Manchester
3rd Team pursuit, Pruszków
1st Team pursuit, Grand Prix Poland
National Championships
2nd Scratch
3rd Individual pursuit
3rd Keirin
3rd Points race
3rd Team pursuit
2018
UCI World Cup
1st Team pursuit, London
2nd Madison, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (with Emily Kay)
3rd Omnium, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
Commonwealth Games
2nd Scratch
3rd Points race
2019
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Glasgow
1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
National Championships
1st Points race
2nd Individual pursuit
2020
1st Madison, UCI World Cup, Milton (with Laura Kenny)
UEC European Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Team pursuit
2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2021
UEC European Championships
1st Madison (with Katie Archibald)
3rd Elimination
2nd Team pursuit, Olympic Games
UCI World Championships
3rd Team pursuit
3rd Madison (with Katie Archibald)
2022
UCI World Championships
1st Points race
2nd Team pursuit
National Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Points race
1st Madison (with Laura Kenny)
2nd Omnium
3rd Scratch
2nd Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Glasgow
Commonwealth Games
2nd Points race
3rd Individual pursuit
2023
1st Madison, UCI World Championships (with Elinor Barker)
UCI Nations Cup
1st Team pursuit, Milton
2nd Madison, Milton (with Katie Archibald)
2nd Elimination race, Jakarta
3rd Omnium, Jakarta
1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
National Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Points race
2nd Scratch
9th Overall Endurance UCI Champions League
1st Scratch, London II
2024
1st Madison, UCI Nations Cup, Milton (with Katie Archibald)
2nd Madison, Olympic Games (with Elinor Barker)
UEC European Championships
2nd Team pursuit
2nd Omnium
3rd Madison, UCI World Championships (with Katie Archibald)
3rd Elimination race, UCI Champions League, Paris
2025
3rd Team pursuit, UEC European Championships

Road

2018
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
Commonwealth Games
8th Time trial
8th Road race
2022
2nd Road race, Commonwealth Games
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