Neah Evans

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.

Evans rode for Podium Ambition Pro Cycling.

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. Neah Evans lives in Cuminestown near Turriff. She and her parents live in Aberdeenshire in north-east Scotland.

She worked as a veterinary surgeon before becoming a full-time athlete in 2017. 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; and beat Laura Kenny in the omnium event in London. At the London 6 days event, Evans won one of the ten races to finish second in the women's omnium to Katie Archibald. Evans was selected to represent Britain at the Cali World Cup event in 2017.

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). Evans was part of the team pursuit that claimed the bronze medal in Pruszkow. 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. 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. She subsequently won the British National Madison Championships with Laura Kenny in April.

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games in July, Evans won points race silver and individual pursuit bronze.

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.

Personal life Evans' boyfriend is the cyclist Jonathan Wale. bronze for GB at the World University Rowing Championships, and held an indoor rowing world record between 2016 and 2018.

Major results Source: Track

2016 1st 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 Team pursuit, UEC European Championships Commonwealth Games

2019 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Glasgow 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships National Championships 1st Points race 2nd Individual pursuit 2020 1st Madison, UCI World Cup, Milton (with Laura Kenny) UEC European Championships 1st Individual pursuit 1st Team pursuit

2021 UEC European Championships 1st Madison (with Katie Archibald)

UCI World Championships

2022 UCI World Championships 1st Points race

National Championships 1st Individual pursuit 1st Points race 1st Madison (with Laura Kenny) 2nd Omnium 3rd Scratch 2nd Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Glasgow Commonwealth Games

2023 1st 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 Team pursuit, UEC European Championships National Championships 1st Individual pursuit 1st Points race 2nd Scratch 9th Overall Endurance UCI Champions League 1st Scratch, London II 2024 1st Madison, UCI Nations Cup, Milton (with Katie Archibald)

UEC European Championships

3rd Elimination race, UCI Champions League, Paris 2025

Road

2018 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships Commonwealth Games 8th Time trial 8th Road race 2022