Workforce USA captured silver within the males’s Workforce Pursuit on the UCI Monitor International locations Cup in Konya, Turkey the weekend of March 15-16. The squad of Ashlin Barry, David Dononoske, Graeme Frisle and Anders Johnson additionally set a brand new Nationwide report with a time of three:47.
Along with the silver medal, 17-year-old Barry, present US junior street and time trial nationwide champion, positioned moment within the elite males’s Omnium.
Over the 4 occasions, Barry positioned fourth in Scratch, received the Pace race, completed 1/3 in Removal and was once main the Issues race however positioned moment, one level at the back of the full winner Yanne Dorenbos of the Netherlands. Barry was once the youngest of 37 competition within the box, which integrated 20-year-old Ben Wiggins of Nice Britain, who completed tenth.
Mexico’s Yareli Acevedo Mendoza received the gold in an exhilarating elite girls’s Removal Race, making her transfer at the ultimate nook round Lisa van Belle of the Netherlands to win by way of a motorbike period. She was once 6th total within the girls’s Omnium.
Replays of the 2 days of racing on the Konya velodrome, which opened in 2022, will also be noticed by way of US and Canadian audiences on FloBikes, with a paid subscription. That is the 5th season for the UCI Monitor International locations Cup, and up to now, the spherical in Turkey is the one pageant at the 2025 calendar, which has had 3 stops.
Domonoske and Johnson have been named to the staying power squad for Workforce USA to compete within the Pan American Monitor Biking Championships, to be held April 1-6 in Asuncion, Paraguay.
PAS Building Workforce stuffed by way of 3 U23 riders from US
Surroundings from SBT GRVL, the place PAS Building workforce will race this summer time (Symbol credit score: SBT GRVL)
3 US kids from Colorado had been decided on to trip at the PAS Building Workforce, formally introduced this week by way of Pas Standard Studios to enhance and nurture the following era of gravel racers in North The united states.
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Samantha Campbell and Scarlett Hardie are each from Grand Junction whilst Oliver Rutberg is living in Colorado Springs. Campbell, who turns 21 this 12 months, received the ladies’s senior department (ages 19-29) at US Marathon Mountain Motorbike Nationals closing 12 months and the ladies’s senior MTB quick observe name in 2023. She competed up to now at the Colorado Mesa College biking workforce.
Hardie remains to be a teen and just lately finished a number of seasons in mountain motorcycle competitions with the Colorado Prime Faculty Biking League. Two years in the past she received Arizona’s Cactus Cup girls’s 13-15 department MTB race.
Rutberg, who grew to become 18 in November closing 12 months, completed 1/3 within the males’s 17-and-under department at the 99-mile Blue Route at SBT GRVL closing 12 months. 2024 was once a excellent 12 months in different disciplines, as he received the Pikes Height Apex mountain motorcycle match and earned the lads’s 17-18 junior street name on the Colorado State Championships.
French cyclocross veteran and a US resident, Caroline Mani, will function the mentor for the riders. The trio may even obtain complete enhance with the PAS Building programme, together with race bills, coaching camps, high-performance attire, and gear. The workforce kicks off its season with a coaching camp in March ahead of competing in key races that come with Sea Otter Vintage (April), Unbound Gravel (Would possibly and STB GRVL (June).
“I’ve enjoyed putting this project together and seeing it come to life. It’s incredibly rewarding to give these young, talented riders the opportunity to compete at a high level in the gravel scene while still focusing on their education. This program is about more than just racing – it’s about creating a pathway where they can grow as athletes and individuals without having to choose between their passion for cycling and their future,” said Sune Nicolajsen, US general manager at Pas Normal Studios.
The PAS Racing Team has 16 elite rides on their pro gravel team, including Denmark’s Tobias Mørch Kongstad (third at Unbound Gravel 200 in 2024), Norway’s Simen Nordahl Svendsen (2024 Gravel Earth Series overall winner for men), USA’s Morgan Aguirre (2024 Gravel Earth Series runner-up for women) and Karolina Migoń (2024 Traka 360 winner and women’s overall winner for Global Earth Series).
Sunny King Criterium adds state, collegiate championships with USA CRITS races
Sunny King Criterium girls’s podium in 2024 (L to R): second-placed Alexis Magner (L39ION of Los Angeles), winner Kendall Ryan (L39ION of Los Angeles) and third-placed Harriet Owen (DNA Professional Biking) (Symbol credit score: Sunny King Criterium/USA Crits)
USA CRITS begin their 16th season on April 5 with the Sunny King Criterium and this year organisers of the Anniston, Alabama event will award state championship and collegiate titles across two days of racing.
Alabama State Criterium championships on Saturday will be awarded in six divisions, three for women and three for men, on the same four-corner course as the USA CRITS events.. The Choccolocco road race on Sunday, a 13.5-mile (21.7km) circuit, will be also have six divisions, the number of laps varying for each division.
The Sunny King Criterium will host the Southeast Collegiate Conference Championships, with seven divisions, three of those for women. There will be five divisions in the collegiate championships for the road race, two of those for women.
Under the lights in the early evening on Saturday, elite women and elite men will battle for the first placings in the nine-race USA CRITS competition, which culminates at the Winston-Salem Cycling Classic in North Carolina on May 24.
Are living streaming will probably be equipped for all USA CRITS occasions, with further protection on Saturday on the Sunny King Criterium for the novice races. Together with further criteriums within the southeast for Velocity Week, a prize handbag of greater than $170,000 is up for grabs, divided calmly between elite girls and elite males, together with total prizes for height groups.
