Neah Evans

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Neah Evans
File:2024 UEC Track Elite European Championships 085 (cropped).jpg
Evans in 2024
Personal information
Born (1990-08-01) 1 August 1990 (age 35)
Langbank, Scotland[1]
Team information
Current teamHandsling Alba Development Road Team
Disciplines
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2017Storey Racing
2019Brother UK–Tifosi
Professional teams
2016Podium Ambition Pro Cycling
2018Storey Racing
2024Torelli
2025–Handsling Alba Development Road Team
Major wins
Track
World Championships
Madison (2023)
Points race (2022)
Medal record
Women's track cycling
Representing File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Madison
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Points race
Gold medal – first place 2023 Glasgow Madison
Silver medal – second place 2020 Berlin Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Roubaix Madison
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Roubaix Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Ballerup Madison
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Glasgow Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2019 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2020 Plovdiv Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2020 Plovdiv Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2021 Grenchen Madison
Gold medal – first place 2023 Grenchen Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2024 Apeldoorn Omnium
Silver medal – second place 2024 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Grenchen Elimination
Bronze medal – third place 2025 Heusden-Zolder Team pursuit
Representing File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gold Coast Scratch
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham Points race
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Gold Coast Points race
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Birmingham Individual pursuit
Women's road bicycle racing
Representing File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham Road race

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

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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]

Personal life

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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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Track

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2016
1st File:Jersey of Great Britain.svg 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 File:European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
Commonwealth Games
2nd File:Silver medal blank.svg Scratch
3rd File:Bronze medal blank.svg Points race
2019
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Glasgow
1st File:European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
National Championships
1st File:Jersey of Great Britain.svg Points race
2nd Individual pursuit
2020
1st Madison, UCI World Cup, Milton (with Laura Kenny)
UEC European Championships
1st File:European champion jersey 2016.svg Individual pursuit
1st File:European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit
2nd File:Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2021
UEC European Championships
1st File:European champion jersey 2016.svg Madison (with Katie Archibald)
3rd File:Bronze medal europe.svg Elimination
2nd File:Silver medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games
UCI World Championships
3rd File:Bronze medal uci.svg Team pursuit
3rd File:Bronze medal uci.svg Madison (with Katie Archibald)
2022
UCI World Championships
1st File:Jersey rainbow.svg Points race
2nd File:Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit
National Championships
1st File:Jersey of Great Britain.svg Individual pursuit
1st File:Jersey of Great Britain.svg Points race
1st File:Jersey of Great Britain.svg Madison (with Laura Kenny)
2nd Omnium
3rd Scratch
2nd Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Glasgow
Commonwealth Games
2nd File:Silver medal blank.svg Points race
3rd File:Bronze medal blank.svg Individual pursuit
2023
1st File:Jersey rainbow.svg 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 File:European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
National Championships
1st File:Jersey of Great Britain.svg Individual pursuit
1st File:Jersey of Great Britain.svg 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 File:Silver medal olympic.svg Madison, Olympic Games (with Elinor Barker)
UEC European Championships
2nd File:Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit
2nd File:Silver medal europe.svg Omnium
3rd File:Bronze medal uci.svg Madison, UCI World Championships (with Katie Archibald)
3rd Elimination race, UCI Champions League, Paris
2025
3rd File:Bronze medal europe.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships

Road

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2018
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
Commonwealth Games
8th Time trial
8th Road race
2022
2nd File:Silver medal blank.svg Road race, Commonwealth Games

See also

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References

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