Petr Vakoč, Alex Howes, Peta Mullens, and Amity Rockwell Lead 138 Wildcard Contenders Battling for Six Spots in Lifestyles Time Grand Prix

A complete of 201 athletes had been named to compete in a couple of latest high-stakes contests for the 2025 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix. For the six wildcard spots into this 12 months’s off-road sequence passed out after Unbound Gravel 200, 138 riders had been decided on this week produced from 40 ladies competing for 3 of the ones entries and 98 males competing for the opposite 3. 

A roster of 63 athletes between the ages of 18-22 will participate within the inaugural U23 Building Program, the names of 12 ladies and 51 males printed to vye for 2 spots within the 2026 Lifestyles Time Grand Prix, one spot every for the highest female and male finishers throughout 4 of six races this season.

The fourth version of the Lifestyles Time Grand Prix sequence starts April 10 on the Sea Otter Vintage gravel race in Monterey, California, adopted by means of the second one spherical at Unbound Gravel 200 in Emporia, Kansas on Would possibly 31. This 12 months those two races rely for greater than only a season-ending proportion of a $200,000 prize handbag, cut up some of the best 10 general women and men in October after Large Sugar Gravel.

“These initiatives will not only provide fans with exciting new storylines to follow but also create new opportunities for emerging athletes to prove themselves on the biggest stage. We’re excited to see these athletes pushing themselves for the opportunity to race in the Life Time Grand Prix,” Kimo Seymour, president of Lifestyles Time Occasions, mentioned in a press unlock.

Main points have no longer been disclosed in regards to the variety procedure, or collection of spots on be offering, for both programme, which assessed private programs from person athletes. As soon as rosters had been printed, a big disparity in gender numbers amongst each programmes was once obtrusive, with 4 occasions as many males competing within the U23 Building Program than ladies and greater than double the collection of males’s authorised programs for the wildcard berths than ladies. Then again, even with greater fields, the lads don’t compete for upper numbers of entries in both the wildcard or U23 programmes.

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Wildcard athletes should contest the hole two rounds of the Grand Prix, and the highest performers around the two races blended will earn spots within the 2025 sequence, bringing the invitation-only fields to a most of 25 ladies and 25 males around the ultimate 4 races. 

New to gravel racing this 12 months, 22-year-old Colorado local Ruth Holcomb mentioned she didn’t practice to the Grand Prix remaining fall, however made up our minds to use for the U23 programme because it was once her ultimate 12 months in that class, and she or he’s satisfied she did.

“I’m excited about it. I was just going to do some the [Grand Prix] races that I could with the htSQD and I was going to do four of them anyway, so I talked to Keegan [Swenson] and Tobin [Ortenblad] and they said I should totally do it. I think it will be fun,” Holcomb mentioned about her new teammates with htSQD, together with three-time Lifestyles Time Grand Prix champion Swenson, encouraging her to use.

Having competed with the Endure Nationwide group in mountain cycling as a junior, she mentioned different ladies to observe within the U23 box are Emily Stapleton, additionally a Endure Nationwide grad, and Kylie De Jager. At the males’s aspect, she mentioned that box was once stacked, and wait for riders like Luke Mosteller, Justin Peck and Brady White.

The U23 riders should compete in 4 of the six occasions of this 12 months’s sequence, with a separate leaderboard monitoring ratings for feminine and men. The entire laws are to be had on the Lifestyles Time Grand Prix internet web page.

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Notice: asterik signifies riders who’ve carried out for each programmes

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