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Canadian Maghalie Rochette (Canyon Collective) and USA’s Curtis White (Steve Tilford Basis Racing) gained the 2023 elite titles within the US Cyclocross Sequence (USCX) with convincing victories at the ultimate weekend in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The pair earned equivalent stocks of the $15,000 prize handbag, which was once on be offering for a 2nd time within the 3rd 12 months of the collection.
Rochette rocketed into the lead of the elite girls’s department by means of profitable the primary two races at Virginia’s Blue Ridge Pass Move in mid September, and not let up, sweeping all 8 occasions. Protecting USCX champion Caroline Mani (Groove Off-road Racing) had a gentle string of 5 runner-up finishes and a 3rd position at Allure Town Move to protected 2nd position total. Sidney McGill (Cervélo Orange Dwelling) additionally amassed six podiums, 4 of them 3rd puts, and completed 3rd total, seven issues wanting overtaking Mani. Lauren Zoerner of Groove Off-road completed fourth and Raylyn Nuss (Steve Tilford Basis Racing) 5th.
With every weekend of racing, the USCX standings oscillated within the elite males’s department. Switzerland’s Loris Rouiller (Heizomat – Kloster Kitchen) was once the hole chief with back-to-back victories in Roanoke at Pass Move and clung to a two-point lead after Vincent Baestaens gained each races at Rochester Cyclocross. White was once neatly in the back of in 3rd position on the mid-way level.
With Rouiller lacking from the second one day of Allure Town Move in Baltimore, Baestaens took benefit with a 5th position and 2nd position at the weekend to seize the collection lead, the Swiss rider shedding to 2nd and USA’s Andrew Strohmeyer (CXD Trek Motorcycles) the usage of a win within the C2 race to transport into 3rd.
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 box. Baestaens hung on for a paycheck with 2nd total, 50 issues off the entire from White. Canadian Michael van den Ham (Large x Easton), who had seven most sensible 10s within the choice of races, grabbed 3rd total. Jules van Kempen (Cervélo Orange Dwelling) completed fourth and Rouiller was once 5th.
The USCX was once made out of 8 races at 4 established occasions at the east coast of the USA, taking in stops at Virginia, New York, Maryland and Massachusetts.
North American citizens ranking 10 gold medals at Pan Ams on avenue, monitor, MTB
Canada had a massively a hit two weeks in Santiago, Chile for the Pan American Video games in past due October, profitable a complete of six medals in monitor and mountain motorbike occasions, 5 of them gold.
The women and men swept gold at the monitor in Staff Pursuit. The lads’s crew broke the Pan Am document two times on their strategy to victory. The gang of Chris Ernst, Michael Foley, Carson Mattern, and Sean Richardson set the document first in qualifying. After 18-year-old Campbell Parrish changed Ernst for one spherical to advance to the finals, a foursome defeated Colombia with any other Video games document, 3:53.59. At the profitable girls’s crew had been Devaney Collier, Kiara Lylyk, Fiona Majendie, and Ruby West.
The lads additionally gained the Staff Dash, rounds finished between the trio of Nick Wammes, James Hedgcock, and Tyler Rorke. The ladies took a bronze of their Staff Dash with Emy Savard, Sarah Orban and Jacklynn Boyle.
Canada swept gold medals within the cross-country races within the mountain motorbike occasions. Jennifer Ming Jackson ruled the ladies’s race with a 2:45 margin over runner-up Catalina María Vidaurre Kossmann of Chile.
“I simply were given to the entrance set my tempo and simply attempted to have a in reality calm journey… It was once best possible,” mentioned Jackson, the 2021 and 2023 Canadian champion in cross-country.
Gunnar Holmgren scored a powerful solo victory, 53 seconds sooner than U23 Global Champion Martín Vidaurre Kossmann of Chile. Each Ontario riders celebrated their first occupation wins on the Pan Am Video games.
“We’ve raced every different all season lengthy within the Global Cup circuit,” Holmgren advised Canadian Biking about his combat with the Chilean house favorite. “I spent the primary few laps understanding the place he was once robust, perhaps the place I used to be more potent, after which put it to paintings.”
Ranked thirty fourth on this planet, Holmgren completed 5th on the authentic Olympic take a look at tournament for Paris 2024.
Staff USA
At the monitor, Staff USA earned one silver and 4 bronze medals throughout 4 days of competitions. The United States girls earned the silver within the Staff Dash, the squad of Keely Ainslie, Kayla Hankins, and Mandy Marquardt additionally set a brand new Nationwide Document. Marquardt went on to 3rd position within the girls’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 had been additionally a part of the boys’s squad that completed with the bronze within the Staff Pursuit, teaming with David Domonoske, Brendan Rhim and Anders Johnson throughout 4 rounds.
Staff USA additionally gained a couple of golds within the girls’s avenue races, Lauren Stephens within the avenue race and Kristen Faulkner within the time trial.
Staff Mexico
Mexico accumulated 10 medals in Chile and all at the monitor. Jessica Salazar Valles, Yuli Paola Verdugo Osuna and Luz Daniela Gaxiola Gonzalez teamed in combination to win the gold within the girls’s Staff Dash, whilst Yareli Acevedo Mendoza earned a gold within the girls’s Omnium. Gonzalez additionally took silver within the girls’s Keirin whilst Osuna gained silver within the Dash.
Maria Antonieta Gaxiola Gonzalez teamed with Lizbeth Yarely Salazar Vazquez for 2nd position within the girls’s Madison, and the similar pair joined Mendoza and Victoria Velazco Fuentes to seize silver in Staff 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 couple of bronze medals went to the boys, Juan Carlos Ruiz Teran 3rd within the Keirin whilst he joined Edgar Ismael Verdugo Osuna and Jafet Emmanuel Lopez Gonzaga for a podium spot within the Staff Dash.
Stetina’s Paydirt 2024 gives loose entries for juniors
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The 3rd version of Stetina’s Carson Town Paydirt gravel tournament returns to Nevada in 2024 with a $5,000 completely for the elite girls, post-race demanding situations to earn time bonuses and, this 12 months, loose registration for juniors.
The announcement about charges waived for juniors was once made at the tournament Instagram account, in partnership with the Nevada North Interscholastic Biking League. Registration opens on October 31 for the Nevada off-road tournament based by means of Peter Stetina.
“We will have a brand new Junior Males’s and Ladies’s podium for the medium direction, which Pete believes is the easier path to foster Junior racing building. When registering you can see a donation field and we certain hope you can throw a couple of greenbacks their strategy to #GetMoreKidsOnBikes.”
The lengthy direction will once more soak up 69.2 miles with 3 segments around the Pine Nut mountain vary whilst the medium direction might be 56.5 miles and that direction remains to be to be showed.
Calendar set for 2024 USA Biking Nationwide Championships
USA Biking introduced the entire time table for the 2024 USA Biking Nationwide Championships, with 18 occasions offering stars-and-stripes jerseys and medals throughout 8 disciplines.
The Professional Highway Nationwide Championships, that have been introduced previous with new lessons in Charleston, West Virginia from Would possibly 14-19, will come with the Junior 17-18 races for women and men, a males’s Below-23 tournament and proceed with the ladies’s U23 winner topped from the elite girls’s races. The remainder 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 go back to the similar 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.
| Date | Nationwide Championship Tournament | Location |
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| January 6-7 | Esports Biking | Zwift |
| March 1-3 | Collegiate BMX | Springfield, Missouri |
| March-24 | Elite BMX | Rock Hill, South Carolina |
| Would possibly 3-5 | Collegiate Highway | Albuquerque, N.M. |
| Would possibly 14-19 | Professional Highway | Charleston, West Virginia |
| June-23 | Marathon Mountain Motorcycle | Auburn, Alabama |
| July 10-14 | Elite & Para-Biking Monitor | Carson, California |
| July 17-21 | Move-Nation Mountain Motorcycle | Macungie, Pennsylvania |
| July 22-28 | Masters and Junior Highway | Augusta, Georgia |
| July 31 – August 4 | Gravity Mountain Motorcycle | Henderson County, North Carolina |
| August 6-11 | Masters Monitor | Rock Hill, South Carolina |
| August 15-17 | Junior Monitor | Redmond, Washington |
| September-23 | Gravel | Gering, Nebraska |
| September-23 | Gran Fondo | Frederick, Maryland |
| September 18-22 | Collegiate Monitor | Breinigsville, Pensylvania |
| October 10-13 | Collegiate Mountain Motorcycle | Henderson County, North Carolina |
| November 15-16 | Madison Monitor | Detroit, Michigan |
| December 9-15 | Cyclocross | Louisville, Kentucky |
