Neah Evans

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Neah Evans
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Evans in 2024
Personal information
Born (1990-08-01) 1 August 1990 (age 34)
Langbank, Scotland [1]
Team information
Current team Torelli
Discipline
RoleRider
Professional teams
2018 Storey Racing
2024– Torelli
Major wins
Track
World Championships
Madison (2023)
Points race (2022)
Medal record
Women's track cycling
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Paris Madison
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Points race
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Glasgow Madison
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2020 Berlin Team pursuit
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Team pursuit
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Ballerup Madison
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2021 Roubaix Madison
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2021 Roubaix Team pursuit
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Glasgow Team pursuit
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Plovdiv Individual pursuit
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2020 Plovdiv Team pursuit
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Grenchen Madison
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Grenchen Team pursuit
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Apeldoorn Omnium
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2024 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2021 Grenchen Elimination
Representing Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Scratch
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Birmingham Points race
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2018 Gold Coast Points race
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Birmingham Individual pursuit

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]

Biography

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

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

Track

2016
1st Jersey of Great Britain.svg 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 European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
Commonwealth Games
2nd Silver medal blank.svg Scratch
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Points race
2019
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
1st Jersey of Great Britain.svg Points race, National Championships
2020
UEC European Championships
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Individual pursuit
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2021
UEC European Championships
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Madison (with Katie Archibald)
3rd Bronze medal europe.svg Elimination
2nd Silver medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games
UCI World Championships
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team pursuit
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Madison (with Katie Archibald)
2022
UCI World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Points race
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit
National Championships
1st Jersey of Great Britain.svg Individual pursuit
1st Jersey of Great Britain.svg Points race
1st Jersey of Great Britain.svg Madison (with Laura Kenny)
Commonwealth Games
2nd Silver medal blank.svg Points race
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Individual pursuit
2023
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Madison, UCI World Championships (with Elinor Barker)
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
2024
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Madison, UCI World Championships (with Katie Archibald)

See also

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  2. ↑ "Track Cycling World Championships: GB's Neah Evans wins points race gold for first world title". BBC News. 16 October 2022.
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