Riders are arriving in Gering, Nebraska, on Thursday forward of the inaugural USA Biking Gravel Nationwide Championships. The competitors will get underway on Saturday with 62 elite males and 22 elite ladies up to now signed as much as compete for a complete of $60,000 – equally cut up between the 2 fields.
The race can also be a qualifying occasion for the UCI Gravel World Championships that can happen in Veneto, Italy, on October 8, 2023. The highest three elite women and men mechanically qualify for Worlds.
USA Biking will even totally help every elite winner for the journey to Italy.
Gering, a small city within the far western a part of Nebraska, is simply throughout the border from Colorado close to the bottom of the Scotts Bluff Nationwide Monument. The elite nationwide championships will each be 131.4 miles lengthy with nearly 5,600 toes of elevation achieve, and 90% of the course is on gravel roads.
There are nationwide championship races for singlespeed, para and age group classes on the 131.4-mile course, and different age group, para and non-championship classes on 88-mile, 50- and 25-mile programs.
The route features a collection of small rolling climbs and two longer ascents, with a piece of tough singletrack close to the top that can sap the riders’ power. Dry, dusty gravel and sandy sections of doubletrack snake by means of the wide-open plains.
The outright favorite for the boys’s race is Keegan Swenson (Santa Cruz Bicycles/SRAM), winner of 4 straight rounds of the LifeTime Grand Prix – the Fuego XL, Unbound, Crusher within the Tushar, and Leadville 100 – this 12 months.
Different contenders embrace Peter Stetina (Intergalactic Trash Pandas), Payson McElveen (Allied Cycle Works), and Alexey Vermeulen (Jukebox-ENVE).
Stetina posted on Instagram that he’s going to “give my all for a jersey”.
“The terrain in Gering, Nebraska seems dynamic and I’m eager, daresay excited, to expertise how this seems and feels,” he stated, praising USA Biking for “the primary of a sort prize purse” and “what seems like a correct course.”
Prime names for the ladies’s race embrace Lauren De Crescenzo (CINCH Racing), Lauren Stephens (EF Training-TIBCO-SVB), and Emily Newsom (Roxo Racing).
USA Biking Gravel Nationwide Championship Entrants
| Zachary Allison (Bike Sports activities) |
| Sam Anderson (OKC Velo) |
| Leonardo Azocar (Mack cycle) |
| John Becker (First Web Financial institution Biking) |
| Nathan Bigelow (Go4Graham) |
| John Borstelmann (Ventum / Voler) |
| Barrett Brandon (Ventum) |
| Isaac Bryant (Above and Past Most cancers p/b Bike World) |
| Zachary Calton |
| Eric Colindres (The Olympic Membership) |
| Andrew Dillman (Ignition Coach Co.) |
| Griffin Easter (OpiCure Basis Gravel Staff) |
| Cobe Freeburn (Bear Nationwide Staff) |
| John Frey (Goodlife racing) |
| Joe Goettl (Scheels Utah) |
| Gavin Goode (First Web Financial institution Biking) |
| Noah Granigan (Denver Disruptors) |
| Zach Gregg (Challenge Echelon Racing) |
| Finn Gullickson |
| David Haase (Perspective Sports activities) |
| Lance Haidet (L39ION of Los Angeles) |
| Luke Corridor (Cannonball) |
| Carson Hampton (Bear Nationwide Staff) |
| William Hardin (Challenge Echelon Racing) |
| Coulton Hartrich (No Sponsors) |
| Joey Hassett (Primal – Audi Denver) |
| Alex Hoehn (Above and Past Most cancers Biking Staff p/b Bike World) |
| Peter Hogan |
| Griffin Hoppin (USA Biking’s Athlete Improvement Pathway) |
| Johnathan Hsu (Expeditors) |
| Matt Jablonski |
| Yusuf Johnson (UChicago Velo Membership) |
| Ted King (iamtedking.com/sponsors :)) |
| Nathaniel Langlie (Primary Road Bikes) |
| Bjorn Larson |
| Joshua Lundgren (Goodlife Racing) |
| Andy Lydic (BMC #itcouldbeme) |
| Payson McElveen (Allied Cycle Works) |
| Chris Mehlman (Endurance Threads/Neversecond/Vittoria/Hammerhead/Maple…) |
| Spencer Miller (First Web Financial institution Biking) |
| Daxton Mock (Bear Nationwide Staff) |
| Madison Molitor |
| Isaiah Newkirk (Challenge Echelon) |
| Peter Olejniczak (Challenge Echelon Racing) |
| Tobin Ortenblad (Santa Cruz SRAM htSQD) |
| Andrew Osterhoudt |
| Ethan Overson (Scuderia Pinarello) |
| Hayden Pucker (Turbo) |
| Max Ritzow (Expeditors) |
| Rane Roatta |
| Trey Shepard (First Web Financial institution Biking) |
| Nathan Spratt |
| Marc Spratt (Voler/Ventum) |
| Mat Stephens (Lauf) |
| Peter Stetina (Intergalactic Trash Pandas) |
| Keegan Swenson (Santa Cruz Bicycles/SRAM) |
| Skyler Taylor (Above Class Racing) |
| Maas van de Graaf (FCCT) |
| Alexey Vermeulen (Jukebox – ENVE) |
| Stephen Vogel (Challenge Echelon Racing) |
| Brennan Wertz (Mosaic Cycles) |
| Lee Yarbro |
| Morgan Aguirre |
| Whitney Allison (Bike Sports activities) |
| Crystal Anthony (Liv Racing Collective) |
| Gillian Bennett (ButcherBox Biking p/b LOOK) |
| Chelsea Bolton (Ventum / Eliel / KAV / ENVE) |
| Lauren De Crescenzo (CINCH Racing) |
| Cecily Decker (Scuderia Pinarello) |
| Tori Dippold (CINCH Racing) |
| rebecca fahringer (Kona Maxxis Shimano) |
| Sarah Flamm (Planet Earth) |
| Christina Gokey-Smith (Matrix Cycle Membership) |
| Anna Hicks (Cynisca Biking) |
| Aria Mundy |
| Emily Newsom (Roxo Racing) |
| Paige Onweller (Trek/WTB/ABUS/HED/SRAM) |
| Jenna Rinehart (Nicollet Bike) |
| Melisa Rollins (Virginia’s Blue Ridge Twenty24) |
| alexis skarda (Santa Cruz Bicycles) |
| Kyleigh Spearing |
| Lauren Stephens ((EF EDUCATION – TIBCO – SVB) |
| Grace Williams (Cynisca Biking) |
| Caroline Wreszin (CINCH Racing) |
