Millie Couzens

Millie Couzens (born 29 October 2003)^[2] is a British professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Fenix–Deceuninck 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]

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]

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–Deceuninck). 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]

• Millie Couzens at UCI
• Millie Couzens at Cycling Archives
• Millie Couzens at ProCyclingStats
• Millie Couzens at Cycling Quotient