// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Xan Crees? Xan-onymous.
 Crees in 2026 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 December 2000[1] |
| Team information | |
| Current team | OGT p.b., USE-Components |
| Discipline |
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| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team | |
| 2021-2025 | Spectra Racing |
| Professional team | |
| 2025 - | OGT p.b., USE-Components |
Xan Crees (born 27 December 2000) is a British cyclist who rides for OGT p.b., USE-Components. She won the British National Gravel Championship in 2023. In 2025, she won the British National Cyclo-cross Championships.
Early life
[edit]From Derby, she became interested in cycling at an early age after watching her father compete in 24-hour races and joined her local cycling club Derby Mercury. She played a number of sports as a youngster, including netball, mixed martial arts, and swimming. She graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in natural sciences.[2][3]
Career
[edit]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.[4] In December 2023, she won her first senior National Trophy Series cyclocross race in Gravesend.[5]
She won the elite women's race at the British National Cyclo-cross Championships in January 2025, defeating Cat Ferguson into second-place.[6]
On 11 January 2026, Crees was runner-up to Anna Flynn at the British Cyclo-cross Championships.[7]
Major results
[edit]Cyclo-cross
[edit]- 2022–2023
- 2nd National Under-23 Championships
- 2024–2025
- 1st
National Championships - 2025–2026
- 2nd National Championships
Gravel
[edit]- 2023
- 1st National Championships
References
[edit]- ↑ "Xan Crees". Procyclingstats. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- 1 2 "Xan Crees". Rijden.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ↑ Davidson, Tom (16 January 2025). "'I woke up the next day and cried within the first five minutes' - Meet British cyclo-cross champion Xan Crees". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ↑ Davidson, Tom (16 September 2023). "Joe Blackmore and Xan Crees win British Gravel Championships". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ↑ "Xan Crees and Ben Chilton Take First National Trophy Victories at Gravesend". British Cycling. 11 December 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ↑ Frattini, Kirsten (12 January 2025). "British Cyclocross National Championships: Xan Crees holds off Cat Ferguson to win elite women's title". Cycling News. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ↑ "FOUR-MIDABLE MASON TAKES TOP SPOT, WHILE FLYNN FLIES HIGH AT LLOYDS NATIONAL CYCLO-CROSS CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Cycling. 11 January 2026. Retrieved 11 January 2026.