Rochette and White safe 2023 USCX titles – North American Roundup

Canadian Maghalie Rochette (Canyon Collective) and USA’s Curtis White (Steve Tilford Basis Racing) gained the 2023 elite titles within the US Cyclocross Collection (USCX) with convincing victories on the ultimate weekend in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The pair earned equal shares of the $15,000 prize purse, which was on provide for a second time within the third 12 months of the collection.

Rochette rocketed into the lead of the elite ladies’s division by profitable the primary two races at Virginia’s Blue Ridge Go Cross in mid September, and by no means let up, sweeping all eight occasions. Defending USCX champion Caroline Mani (Groove Off-road Racing) had a gentle string of 5 runner-up finishes and a 3rd place at Attraction Metropolis Cross to safe second place general. Sidney McGill (Cervélo Orange Dwelling) additionally collected six podiums, 4 of them third locations, and completed third general, seven factors in need of overtaking Mani. Lauren Zoerner of Groove Off-road completed fourth and Raylyn Nuss (Steve Tilford Basis Racing) fifth.

With every weekend of racing, the USCX standings oscillated within the elite males’s division. Switzerland’s Loris Rouiller (Heizomat – Kloster Kitchen) was the opening chief with back-to-back victories in Roanoke at Go Cross and clung to a two-point lead after Vincent Baestaens gained each races at Rochester Cyclocross. White was properly behind in third place on the mid-way level.

With Rouiller lacking from the second day of Attraction Metropolis Cross in Baltimore, Baestaens took benefit with a fifth place and second place on the weekend to seize the collection lead, the Swiss rider dropping to second and USA’s Andrew Strohmeyer (CXD Trek Bikes) utilizing a win within the C2 race to maneuver into third.

White used his two spectacular solo victories at Actually Rad Pageant of Cyclocross to vault into the highest spot of the USCX, as Baestaens, Rouiller and Strohmeyer weren’t within the discipline. Baestaens held on for a paycheck with second general, 50 factors off the full from White. Canadian Michael van den Ham (Large x Easton), who had seven prime 10s within the assortment of races, grabbed third general. Jules van Kempen (Cervélo Orange Dwelling) completed fourth and Rouiller was fifth.

The USCX was comprised of eight races at 4 established occasions on the east coast of the US, taking in stops at Virginia, New York, Maryland and Massachusetts. 

North People rating 10 gold medals at Pan Ams on street, observe, MTB

Canada had a vastly profitable two weeks in Santiago, Chile for the Pan American Video games in late October, profitable a complete of six medals in observe and mountain bike occasions, 5 of them gold.

The women and men swept gold on the observe in Workforce Pursuit. The lads’s staff broke the Pan Am report twice on their solution to victory. The group of Chris Ernst, Michael Foley, Carson Mattern, and Sean Richardson set the report first in qualifying. After 18-year-old Campbell Parrish changed Ernst for one spherical to advance to the finals, a foursome defeated Colombia with one other Video games report, 3:53.59. On the profitable ladies’s staff have been Devaney Collier, Kiara Lylyk, Fiona Majendie, and Ruby West. 

The lads additionally gained the Workforce Dash, rounds accomplished between the trio of Nick Wammes, James Hedgcock, and Tyler Rorke. The ladies took a bronze of their Workforce Dash with Emy Savard, Sarah Orban and Jacklynn Boyle.

Canada swept gold medals within the cross-country races within the mountain bike occasions. Jennifer Ming Jackson dominated the ladies’s race with a 2:45 margin over runner-up Catalina María Vidaurre Kossmann of Chile. 

“I simply received to the entrance set my tempo and simply tried to have a very calm experience… It was good,” mentioned Jackson, the 2021 and 2023 Canadian champion in cross-country.

Gunnar Holmgren scored a convincing solo victory, 53 seconds quicker than U23 World Champion Martín Vidaurre Kossmann of Chile. Each Ontario riders celebrated their first profession wins on the Pan Am Video games. 

“We’ve raced one another all season lengthy within the World Cup circuit,” Holmgren instructed Canadian Biking about his battle with the Chilean dwelling favorite. “I spent the primary few laps determining the place he was sturdy, possibly the place I used to be stronger, after which put it to work.”

Ranked thirty fourth on the earth, Holmgren completed fifth on the official Olympic check occasion for Paris 2024.

Workforce USA

On the observe, Workforce USA earned one silver and 4 bronze medals throughout 4 days of competitions. The US ladies earned the silver within the Workforce Dash, the squad of Keely Ainslie, Kayla Hankins, and Mandy Marquardt additionally set a brand new Nationwide File. Marquardt went on to 3rd place within the ladies’s Dash.

Each the women and men took bronze within the Madison occasions, Chloe Patrick and Colleen Gullick for the ladies and Colby Lange and Grant Koontz for the boys. Lange and Koontz have been additionally a part of the boys’s squad that completed with the bronze within the Workforce Pursuit, teaming with David Domonoske, Brendan Rhim and Anders Johnson throughout 4 rounds.

Workforce USA additionally gained a pair of golds within the ladies’s street races, Lauren Stephens within the street race and Kristen Faulkner within the time trial. 

Workforce Mexico

Mexico amassed 10 medals in Chile and all on the observe. Jessica Salazar Valles, Yuli Paola Verdugo Osuna and Luz Daniela Gaxiola Gonzalez teamed collectively to win the gold within the ladies’s Workforce Dash, whereas Yareli Acevedo Mendoza earned a gold within the ladies’s Omnium. Gonzalez additionally took silver within the ladies’s Keirin whereas Osuna gained silver within the Dash. 

Maria Antonieta Gaxiola Gonzalez teamed with Lizbeth Yarely Salazar Vazquez for second place within the ladies’s Madison, and the identical pair joined Mendoza and Victoria Velazco Fuentes to seize silver in Workforce Pursuit.

The gold within the males’s Madison went to Mexico, the profitable duo consisting of Fernando Gabriel Nava Romo and Ricardo Peña Salas, who additionally earned silver within the males’s Omnium. A pair of bronze medals went to the boys, Juan Carlos Ruiz Teran third within the Keirin whereas he joined Edgar Ismael Verdugo Osuna and Jafet Emmanuel Lopez Gonzaga for a podium spot within the Workforce Dash.

Stetina’s Paydirt 2024 provides free entries for juniors

The third version of Stetina’s Carson Metropolis Paydirt gravel occasion returns to Nevada in 2024 with a $5,000 completely for the elite ladies, post-race challenges to earn time bonuses and, this 12 months, free registration for juniors.

The announcement about charges waived for juniors was made on the occasion Instagram account, in partnership with the Nevada North Interscholastic Biking League. Registration opens on October 31 for the Nevada off-road occasion based by Peter Stetina.

“We’ll have a brand new Junior Males’s and Ladies’s podium for the medium course, which Pete believes is the higher path to foster Junior racing growth. When registering you will see a donation field and we positive hope you will throw a couple of dollars their solution to #GetMoreKidsOnBikes.”

The lengthy course will once more absorb 69.2 miles with three segments throughout the Pine Nut mountain vary whereas the medium course might be 56.5 miles and that route continues to be to be confirmed.

Calendar set for 2024 USA Biking Nationwide Championships

USA Biking introduced the whole schedule for the 2024 USA Biking Nationwide Championships, with 18 occasions offering stars-and-stripes jerseys and medals throughout eight disciplines. 

The Professional Street Nationwide Championships, which have been introduced earlier with new programs in Charleston, West Virginia from Could 14-19, will embrace the Junior 17-18 races for women and men, a males’s Below-23 occasion and proceed with the ladies’s U23 winner topped from the elite ladies’s races. The remaining Junior occasions and the whole lot of the Masters occasions (ages 11-16 and 35+) will mix in Augusta, Georgia July 22-28.

Each the gravel and cyclocross nationals are scheduled to return to the identical venues as this 12 months, the Gravel Nationwide Championships returning to Gering, Nebraska on September 8, and the Cyclocross Nationwide Championships slotted for back-to-back years in Louisville, Kentucky, subsequent 12 months December 9-15.