Major results
Cyclo-cross
- 2022–2023
- 2nd National Under-23 Championships
- 2024–2025
- 1st
National Championships
Gravel
- 2023
- 1st National Championships
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 December 2000 [1] |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Spectra Racing |
| Discipline |
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| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team | |
| 2021- | Spectra Racing |
Xan Crees (born 27 December 2000) is a British cyclist who rides for Spectra Racing. She won the British National Gravel Championship in 2023. In 2025, she won the British National Cyclo-cross Championships.
From Derby, she became interested in cycling at an early age after watching her father compete in 24-hour races. She graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in natural sciences. [2]
She joined Spectra Racing ahead of the 2021-22 cyclocross season, in which she won a silver medal in the under-23 British National Championships. [2]
She won the British National Gravel Championship in Suffolk in 2023. [3] In December 2023, she won her first senior National Trophy Series cyclocross race in Gravesend. [4]
She won the elite women's race at the British National Cyclo-cross Championships in January 2025, defeating Cat Ferguson into second-place. [5]
National Championships National Championships
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