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.
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]
Biography
[edit]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]
Personal life
[edit]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
[edit]Track
[edit]- 2016
- 1st
Derny, National Championships - 2nd Omnium, Six Days of London
- 2017
- 1st Team pursuit, Grand Prix Poland
- National Championships
- 2nd Scratch
- 3rd Individual pursuit
- 3rd Keirin
- 3rd Points race
- 3rd Team pursuit
- 3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Pruszkow
- 2018
- 1st
Team pursuit, UEC European Championships - Commonwealth Games
- 2nd
Scratch - 3rd
Points race
- 2nd
- 2019
- 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
- 1st Points race, National Championships
- 2020
- UEC European Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- 2nd
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships - 2021
- UEC European Championships
- 1st Madison (with Katie Archibald)
- 3rd
Elimination
- 1st
- 2nd
Team pursuit, Olympic Games - UCI World Championships
- 3rd
Team pursuit - 3rd Madison (with Katie Archibald)
- 3rd
- 2022
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
Points race - 2nd Team pursuit
- 1st
- National Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Points race
- 1st Madison (with Laura Kenny)
- 1st
- Commonwealth Games
- 2nd Points race
- 3rd Individual pursuit
- 2nd
- 2023
- 1st Madison, UCI World Championships (with Elinor Barker)
- 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
- 2024
- 3rd Madison, UCI World Championships (with Katie Archibald)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Participants – Neah EVANS". City of Gold Coast. 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ "Track Cycling World Championships: GB's Neah Evans wins points race gold for first world title". BBC News. 16 October 2022.
- ^ "Neah Evans". Pro Cycling Stats. 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ^ "Tokyo 2020: Neah Evans making up for lost time after 'whirlwind' progress to Team GB". BBC Sport. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ a b Durent, Jamie (21 June 2021). "Neah Evans on Olympic selection, the pressure for gold and pet-sitting". Press and Journal. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ mtc. "Neah Evans". Team Scotland. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "JLT Condor win the Revolution UK Championship". Archived from the original on 12 February 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
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{{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Six Day Series". Archived from the original on 6 November 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "Six Day Series". Archived from the original on 6 November 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "British Cycling confirms teams for final two rounds of the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup series". Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ^ "Neah Evans relegated from World Cup gold on opening night". 3 November 2017. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ "Double World Cup bronze for GB in Poland". 4 November 2017. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ "Olympic Games: Team GB name Laura Kenny and Jason Kenny in 26-strong cycling squad for Tokyo". Sky Sports. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ "2022 National Track Championships". British Cycling. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "DAME LAURA KENNY AND NEAH EVANS RIDE TO VICTORY AT THE NATIONAL MADISON CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Cycling. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: Scotland's Jack Carlin wins keirin silver". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: Neah Evans and John Archibald win cycling silvers for Scotland". BBC Sport. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "2023 British Cycling Track Championships Results". Velo UK. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ^ "Scotland top, England second at Commonwealth Champs". britishrowing.org. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "Great Britain topped table at world university rowing championships". 15 September 2014.
- ^ "indoor rowing world records. Retrieved 2017-02-20".
External links
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- Neah Evans at British Cycling
- Neah Evans at UCI
- Neah Evans at Cycling Archives
- Neah Evans at ProCyclingStats
- Neah Evans at Olympics.com
- Neah Evans at Olympedia
- Neah Evans at Team GB
- Neah Evans at Commonwealth Games Scotland
- Neah Evans at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
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- 1990 births
- Living people
- Scottish female cyclists
- British female cyclists
- Scottish track cyclists
- British track cyclists
- Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic silver medalists in cycling
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Scottish Olympic medallists
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Scotland
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- European Championships (multi-sport event) gold medalists
- Sportspeople from Renfrewshire
- Sportspeople from Aberdeenshire
- People from Formartine
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women)
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics