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Millie Couzens

Millie Couzens (born 29 October 2003) is a British professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam at road and cyclo-cross races.

Early life

Couzens was born in Banbury in Oxfordshire. She began cycle racing with Bicester Millennium Cycling Club, and won the U11 individual title at the British Schools National Cycle Championships in 2015 while a pupil at Bure Park Primary School in Bicester. She moved on to The Bicester School for her secondary education.

Cycling career

Under-16 and Junior

Couzens first found success in cyclo-cross, winning the under-16 race at the British National Cyclo-cross Championships in 2018 at the age of 14 and the junior (under-19) race in 2020, when she also took fourth place in the junior race at the World Championships.

She joined the British Cycling track team as a junior, taking three gold medals at the 2021 European Track Championships, in the omnium, the Madison (with Zoe Bäckstedt) and the team pursuit (with Bäckstedt, Grace Lister and Madelaine Leech).

Couzens also found success on the road as a junior, winning the British National Road Race Championships in 2021.

Elite

In 2021, she was recruited by Belgian cycling team owners Christoph and Philip Roodhooft to ride professionally with their IKO–Crelan cyclo-cross team and Plantur–Pura road team (now named ). She won her first elite UCI cyclocross race at Cyclopark in Gravesend, Kent in December.

In May 2025, she took second place behind Mischa Bredewold in a bunch sprint on Stage 1 of the 2025 Itzulia Women. A few weeks later at the Tour of Britain Women, she finished tenth in the general classification and second in the young rider classification, riding for the Great Britain national team. In June 2025, she won the under-23 category at the British National Time Trial Championships by 50 seconds.

At the 2026 European Championships in Konya, Couzens was part of the British team pursuit line-up who set a new world record en route to the gold medal. The team consisting of Couzens, Katie Archibald, Anna Morris and Josie Knight also set a new world record of 4:02.808 in the final against Germany. She also won a bronze medal in the individual pursuit.

Major results

Cyclo-cross

2019–2020
1st National Junior Championships
4th UCI World Junior Championships
5th UEC European Junior Championships
2021–2022
National Trophy Series
:1st Gravesend
2022–2023
National Trophy Series
:1st Falkirk
:1st Gravesend

Road

2021
4th Overall Watersley Ladies Challenge
6th Road race, UCI World Junior Championships
2023
3rd Argenta Classic-2 Districtenpijl
7th Overall Baloise Ladies Tour
2024
5th Road race, National Championships
2025 <small>(1 pro win)</small>
1st Road race, National Championships
1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
2nd Argenta Classic
3rd Dwars door het Hageland
6th Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships
10th Overall Tour of Britain
2026
8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

Track

2020
3rd Team pursuit, National Championships
2021
UEC European Junior Championships
:1st Madison (with Zoe Bäckstedt)
:1st Omnium
:1st Team pursuit
1st Madison, National Junior Championships (with Zoe Bäckstedt)
2026
UEC European Championships
:1st Team pursuit
:3rd Individual pursuit

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