Savilia Blunk
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| Born | May 30, 1999 Santa Rosa, California | |||||||||||
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| Current team | Decathlon Ford Racing Team | |||||||||||
| Discipline | Mountain bike | |||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||
| Rider type | Cross-country | |||||||||||
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| 2020 | Liv Racing | |||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Rockrider Racing Team | |||||||||||
| 2024– | Decathlon Ford Racing Team[1] | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Savilia Blunk (/səˈvɪliə ˈblʌŋk/ sə-VIL-ee-ə BLUNK;[2] born May 30, 1999) is an American cross-country mountain biker.
Blunk grew up in Inverness, California, and later competed for Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.[3] She is a two-time national cross-country champion, and also won the cross-country short track title in 2023.[4] She also finished 8th in the cross-country short track race and 10th in the Olympic cross-country race at the 2023 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.[5] In 2024, she took her first elite UCI World Cup podiums.
Major results
[edit]- 2017
- 1st
Cross-country, National Junior Championships - 2018
- 1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
- 2021
- Pan American Championships
- 1st
Team relay - 1st Under-23 cross-country
- 1st
- National Championships
- 1st Cross-country short track
- 1st Under-23 cross-country
- 1st
- 2nd
Team relay, UCI World Championships - UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup
- 3rd Lenzerheide
- 3rd Snowshoe
- 2022
- 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- 2023
- National Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Cross-country short track
- 1st
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 2024
- UCI XCO World Cup
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 3rd Araxá
- 3rd Val di Sole
References
[edit]- ^ "Savilia Blunk". mtbdata.com. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
- ^ "BLUNK Savilia". Olympics.com. 2024. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
- ^ "Savilia Blunk". USA Cycling. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
- ^ Olivas, Cody (July 11, 2023). "Blunk captures a pair of national titles". The Durango Herald. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
- ^ "Savilia Blunk". firstcycling.com. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
External links
[edit]- Savilia Blunk at Cycling Archives
- Savilia Blunk at MTB Data
- Official website
Categories:
- 1999 births
- Living people
- American female cyclists
- Cyclists from California
- Cross-country mountain bikers
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Sportspeople from Santa Rosa, California
- People from Inverness, California
- Fort Lewis Skyhawks
- Fort Lewis College alumni
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for the United States