US Junior rider Magnus White has died after being struck by a automotive within the midst of his closing preparations for the UCI Glasgow Street World Championships.
USA Biking releasing a press release saying the deadly incident had occurred on Sunday close to his house in Boulder.
“It’s with a particularly heavy coronary heart that we share the information that 17-year-old Magnus White has handed away in a coaching accident,” mentioned USA Biking.
“On Sunday, July thirtieth, we obtained the information that Nationwide Workforce athlete Magnus White was struck by a automotive on a motorcycle experience in his house of Boulder, Colorado. White was targeted on his closing preparations earlier than leaving for Glasgow, Scotland to compete within the Junior Males’s Mountain Bike Cross-Nation World Championships on August 10, 2023.”
The Boulder-based White was a multidiscipline bike owner who had gained the 2021 Junior 17-18 Cyclocross Nationwide Championships, competed with the USA Biking nationwide crew in a European cyclocross season and raced the 2022 Cyclocross World Championships in Fayetteville, then additionally at Hoogerheide in 2023.
“White fell in love with biking at an early age by Boulder Junior Biking,” mentioned USA Biking assertion. “He was a rising star within the off-road biking scene and his ardour for biking was evident by his racing and camaraderie together with his teammates and area people.”
White had additionally been branching out to highway racing and his choice among the many 36 riders representing the nation within the numerous mountain bike occasions on the Glasgow World Championships had been set to offer one other new step for the proficient younger rider.
USA Biking prolonged their heartfelt condolences, including: “We experience for Magnus.”
Everybody at Cyclingnews would additionally like to increase their deepest condolences to Magnus White’s household, mates, teammates and the Boulder group.
It’s with a particularly heavy coronary heart that we share the information that 17-year-old Magnus White has handed away in a coaching accident.Please learn USA Biking’s assertion in Reminiscence of Magnus White: https://t.co/vZryL710K8 pic.twitter.com/q8CCkJnYdLJuly 30, 2023