Millie Couzens
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Banbury, England
.jpg) Couzens at the 2024 Tour of Britain Women | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 29 October 2003 Banbury, England | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Fenix–Premier Tech | |||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road, cyclocross | |||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||
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| 2022– | Fenix–Premier Tech | |||||||||||||||||
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Millie Couzens (born 29 October 2003)[2] is a British professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Fenix–Premier Tech at road and cyclo-cross races.[1]
Couzens was born in Banbury in Oxfordshire.[1] 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.[3]
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[4] 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.[5]
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).[6]
Couzens also found success on the road as a junior, winning the British National Road Race Championships in 2021.[5]
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 Fenix–Premier Tech). She won her first elite UCI cyclocross race at Cyclopark in Gravesend, Kent in December.[5]
In May 2025, she took second place behind Mischa Bredewold in a bunch sprint on Stage 1 of the 2025 Itzulia Women.[7] 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.[8][9] In June 2025, she won the under-23 category at the British National Time Trial Championships by 50 seconds.[10]
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.[11] She also won a bronze medal in the individual pursuit.[12]
