The Lifestyles Time Grand Prix is about to embark on its 3rd yr as a premier gravel and off-road racing sequence in 2024 that may come with 60 elite off-road athletes competing throughout seven occasions held from April thru October for a prize handbag of $300,000.
The organisers showed that Sofia Gomez Villafane and Keegan Swenson will go back to protect their total sequence titles gained in 2023.
Different notable names a few of the sequence’ contenders come with Lauren De Crescenzo, Peta Mullens, Emily Newsom, Haley Smith and Lauren Stephens, Cole Paton, Brendan Johnston, Torbjørn Andre Røed, Lachlan Morton, Petr Vakoc, Alexey Vermeulen, Andrew L’Esperance, Alex Howes, and Peter Stetina.
“Making ready for the 3rd season of the Lifestyles Time Grand Prix has been tremendous thrilling for our staff, as we proceed to innovate and construct at the momentum from our first two years,” mentioned Kimo Seymour, President of Lifestyles Time Occasions, in a press free up on Tuesday.
“We’ve all labored onerous this previous yr to develop off-road biking in North The us, and we consider 2024 will deliver even larger enthusiasm and fan engagement with the game.”
2024 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda
- April 19: 100K cross-country mountain motorbike race within the Fuego XL on the Lifestyles Time Sea Otter Vintage introduced through Continental in Monterey, Calif.
- June 1: 200-mile Garmin UNBOUND Gravel introduced through Craft Sports clothing in Emporia, Kan.
- July 13: 69-mile Lifestyles Time Crusher within the Tushar introduced through The Creamery in Beaver, Utah
- August 10: 104-mile Phases Biking Leadville Path 100 MTB in Leadville, Colo.
- September 14: 40-mile Lifestyles Time Chequamegon MTB introduced through Trek in Cable, Wis.
- September 28: 110-mile The Rad Grime Fest introduced through Wahoo in Trinidad, Colo.
- October: 100-mile Lifestyles Time Large Sugar Gravel introduced through Mazda in Bentonville, Ark.
This yr’s sequence will supply separate begins for the lads’s and the ladies’s elite fields in any respect seven occasions. The sector dimension will contain of 30 girls and 30 males competing for what’s going to be the largest prize handbag thus far, a $300,000 praise similarly cut up between the lads’s and girls’s classes.
The athletes will have the opportunity to drop as much as two occasions, access charges can be coated through Lifestyles Time, and there can be random doping controls carried out at any spherical, in keeping with the clicking announcement.
“The brand new $300,000 prize handbag pays out according to total sequence effects, which might be made up our minds through a points-based rating machine on their completing place at every tournament,” learn the organiser’s press free up.
“The whole effects will use an athlete’s perfect 5 finishes out of the seven occasions. The general tournament of the sequence, Lifestyles Time Large Sugar Gravel introduced through Mazda, can be necessary for all riders and can function a tiebreaker within the tournament of a tie.”
2024 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda sequence 60 athletes
Elite girls
- Crystal Anthony, 42, Bentonville, Ark., 2023 USA Gravel Nationwide Championships third position
- Ellen Campbell, 26, Durango, Colo., 2022 Phases Biking Leadville Path 100 MTB fifth position
- Lauren De Crescenzo, 33, Broomfield, Colo., 2021 Garmin UNBOUND Gravel introduced through Craft Sports clothing winner
- Cecily Decker, 25, Bozeman, Mont., 2023 Belgian Waffle Experience Kansas winner
- Sofia Gomez Villafane, 29, Heber Town, Utah, 2023 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda total winner
- Anna Hicks, 23, Placerville, Calif., 2023 Lifestyles Time Large Sugar Gravel introduced through Mazda third position
- Erin Huck, 42, Boulder, Colo., 2022 USA Marathon MTB Nationwide Championship
- Heather Jackson, 39, Bend, Ore., 2023 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda 14th total
- Sarah Lange, 32, Lyme, N.H., 2023 Garmin UNBOUND Gravel introduced through Craft Sports clothing fifth position
- Kristen Legan, 37, Boulder, Colo., 2023 Garmin UNBOUND Gravel introduced through Craft Sports clothing XL winner
- Sarah Max, 48, Bend, Ore., 2019 Garmin UNBOUND Gravel introduced through Craft Sports clothing third position
- Deanna Mayles, 30, Colorado Springs, Colo., 2023 Lifestyles Time Chequamegon MTB Competition introduced through Trek third position
- Kate McLaughlin, 35, Boulder, Colo., 2023 Phases Biking Leadville Path 100 MTB tenth position
- Peta Mullens, 35, Bendigo, Australia, 12-time Australian Nationwide Champion
- 15. Emily Newsom, 40, Castle Value, Texas, 2022 Garmin UNBOUND Gravel introduced through Craft Sports clothing third position
- Paige Onweller, 34, Grand Rapids, Mich., 2022 Lifestyles Time Large Sugar Gravel introduced through Mazda winner
- Hannah Otto, 27, Salt Lake Town, Utah, 2022 Phases Biking Leadville Path 100 MTB winner
- Hayley Preen, 25, Cape The city, South Africa, multi-time South African Nationwide Champion
- Jenna Rinehart, 39, Mankato, Minn., multi-time Lifestyles Time Chequamegon MTB Competition introduced through Trek winner
- Melisa Rollins, 27, Salt Lake Town, Utah, 2023 Belgian Waffle Experience Utah winner
- Samara Sheppard, 33, Wollongong, Australia, multi-time New Zealand MTB champion
- Danielle Shrosbree, 29, London, England, 2023 Garmin UNBOUND Gravel introduced through Craft Sports clothing 4th position
- Alexis Skarda, 34, Grand Junction, Colo., 2023 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda 2d total
- Haley Smith, 29, Uxbridge, Canada, 2022 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda total winner
- Lauren Stephens, 36, Dallas, Texas, 2023 USA Gravel Nationwide Champion
- Sarah Sturm, 33, Durango, Colo., 2023 Garmin UNBOUND Gravel introduced through Craft Sports clothing third position
- Michaela Thompson, 21, Durango, Colo., 2023 Bighorn Gravel winner
- Caroline Tory, 32, Snowmass, Colo., 2023 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda twelfth total
- Leah Van der Linden, 28, Boulder, Colo., 2023 Garmin UNBOUND Gravel introduced through Craft Sports clothing eighth position
- Anna Yamauchi, 23, Santa Cruz, Calif., 2023 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda 18th total
Elite males
- Carter Anderson, 20, Eagle Mountain, Utah, 2023 Belgian Waffle Experience Utah 2d position
- Matthew Beers, 29, Cape The city, South Africa, 2x Cape Epic winner
- John Borstelmann, 32, San Luis Obispo, Calif., 2023 Garmin Gravel Worlds winner
- Zach Calton, 26, Salt Lake Town, Utah, 2023 Phases Biking Leadville Path 100 MTB sixth position
- Sean Fincham, 25, Squamish, British Columbia, 2x Canadian U23 Nationwide Champion
- Russell Finsterwald, 32, Colorado Springs, Colo., 2023 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda 4th total
- Howard Grotts, 30, Durango, Colo., 2023 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda ninth total
- Finn Gullickson, 23, Colorado Springs, Colo., 2023 Belgian Waffle Experience North Carolina third position
- Lance Haidet, 25, San Luis Obispo, Calif., 2023 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda fifteenth total
- Alex Howes, 35, Nederland, Colo., 2019 USA Professional Highway Nationwide Champion
- Dylan Johnson, 28, Brevard, N.C., 2023 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda sixteenth total
- Brendan Johnston, 31, Canberra, Australia, 2023 Lifestyles Time Large Sugar Gravel introduced through Mazda 2d position
- Bradyn Lange, 24, Camas, Wash., 2022 Lifestyles Time Chequamegon MTB Competition introduced through Trek winner
- Andrew L’Esperance, 32, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canadian Marathon MTB Nationwide Champion
- Konny Looser, 34, Hinwil, Switzerland, 2x Swiss Marathon MTB Nationwide Champion
- Payson McElveen, 30, Durango, Colo., 2018 Phases Biking Leadville Path 100 MTB third position
- Lachlan Morton, 31, Boulder, Colo., 2023 Garmin UNBOUND Gravel introduced through Craft Sports clothing third position
- Tasman Nankervis, 28, Bendigo, Australia, 2023 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda seventeenth total
- Jack Odron, 20, Denver, Colo., 2023 Bighorn Gravel 4th position
- Logan Owen, 28, Bremerton, Wash., 2023 Lifestyles Time Chequamegon MTB Competition introduced through Trek fifth position
- Cole Paton, 25, Durango, Colo., 2023 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda third total
- Torbjørn Andre Røed, 26, Grand Junction, Colo., 2023 Lifestyles Time Large Sugar Gravel introduced through Mazda winner
- Jordan Schleck, 21, Kampala, Uganda, 2023 Gravel Locos Hico 4th position
- Nathan Spratt, 28, Salt Lake Town, Utah, 2023 Lifestyles Time Crusher within the Tushar introduced through The Creamery sixth position
- Peter Stetina, 36, Santa Rosa, Calif., 8x Grand Excursion finisher
- Keegan Swenson, 29, Heber Town, Utah, 2x Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda total winner
- Kyle Trudeau, 30, Tucson, Ariz., 2023 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda thirteenth total
- Petr Vakoc, 31, Prague, Czech Republic, 2023 Garmin UNBOUND Gravel introduced through Craft Sports clothing 2d position
- Alexey Vermeulen, 28, Boulder, Colo., 2023 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix introduced through Mazda 2d total
- Alex Wild, 31, San Jose, Calif., 2022 Sea Otter Vintage Fuego XL third position
