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The six-race USA Crits sequence launches Saturday on the Sunny King Criterium in Alabama and can present free dwell broadcasts for each professional races and nearly all of the beginner occasions.
Now in its twenty second version for criterium racing in downtown Anniston, the Sunny King Crit professional ladies will compete on the four-corner circuit for 60 minutes, adopted by the professional males for 75 minutes, with dwell streaming scheduled from 5:10 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. CDT.
Streaming for beginner racing begins at 12:00 p.m. CDT, marking the primary time a dwell broadcast shall be offered for USA Biking’s class A races within the South Japanese Collegiate Biking Convention (SECCC) Championships. Excessive-speed web service supplier Sparklight gives all broadcasts free on the race web site, annistoncycling.com, and USACRITS.com.
L39ion of Los Angeles went 1-2 within the ladies’s race final yr with winner Lizbeth Yareli Salazar and runner-up Kendall Ryan whereas Cade Bickmore (Venture Echelon Racing) gained the lads’s race forward of Alfredo Rodriguez (Miami Nights). Ryan and Rodriguez are confirmed to battle for victories in 2024.
Streaming protection is deliberate for all six races in USA Crits: Sunny King Criterium on April 13, Rock&Highway Criterium in Georgia on April 20, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Criterium in South Carolina on April 26, Athens Orthopedic Clinic Twilight Criterium in Georgia on April 27, LaGrange Biking Traditional in Georgia on Could 4 and Winston-Salem Biking Traditional in North Carolina on Could 25.
Valente scores 5 gold medals for US at Pan Am Monitor Championships
Jennifer Valente (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) gained 5 of Staff USA’s 12 gold medals on the 2024 Pan American Monitor Biking Championships. Staff USA concluded the 5 days of competitors with 17 medals, tied with Colombia for probably the most medals throughout 22 occasions. Canada completed with 12 medals, whereas Mexico scored 11, 4 of them gold.
A complete of 18 nations took half within the Continental Championships from April 3-7 on the VELO Sports activities Heart in Carson, California. It was the primary time the Pan American Monitor Biking Championship had been hosted within the USA.
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Valente took wins within the Scratch, Elimination, and Factors particular person race, swept all 4 occasions within the Omnium and on the final day swept all rounds of ladies’s Madison with companion Megan Jastrab (Staff dsm-firmenich PostNL). Emily Erhlich (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) added a pair of gold medals, one within the Particular person Pursuit and one other within the Staff Pursuit, together with Olivia Cummins (DNA Professional Biking), Colleen Gulick (Staff Skyline) and Bethany Ingram.
Grant Koontz (Star Monitor Biking) accounted for 3 gold medals on the lads’s aspect, profitable the lads’s Elimination race, males’s Madison with Peter Moore and competing as a part of the Staff Pursuit remaining, joined by David Domonoske, Anders Johnson and Brendan Rhim (Venture Echelon Racing). Johnson additionally gained a gold in males’s Particular person Pursuit and Moore took the gold within the males’s Factors race.
Mexico gained three gold medals, with particular person victories taken by Fernando Gabriel Nava Romo within the males’s Scratch race and Luz Daniela Gaxiola Gonzalex within the ladies’s Dash remaining. Gaxiola teamed with Jessica Salazar Valles and Yuli Paola Verdugo Osuna to win gold within the ladies’s Staff Dash.
Canada earned their single gold medal when Chris Ernst gained the lads’s Omnium
Excessive winds shorten Boulder Roubaix programs
Anna Dorovskikh and Finn Gullickson gained the professional divisions of the Boulder Roubaix Highway Race powered by Healthful final weekend on a route shortened to 36 miles attributable to a excessive wind advisory on the Colorado Entrance Vary. The professional fields have been on a second lap of the 18.7-mile multi-surface route when wind gusts started to succeed in 35 mph. Organisers eradicated ending laps for security issues, with each fields finishing 36 miles. The ladies’s race was initially deliberate at 56 miles, whereas the lads have been scheduled to compete throughout 93 miles.
Kaia Schmid completed second within the ladies’s division by out-sprinting Arielle Cooy. Gullickson took the highest spot on the lads’s podium in a five-rider dash, Lance Abshire took second, and Troy Fields took third forward of Thomas Gibbons and Cole Tamburri.
Established as a tribute experience in Boulder for the annual cobbled Traditional in Europe, Paris-Roubaix, Boulder Roubaix is held each different yr.
2026 Highway Worlds unveil branding for Montréal
The organizing committee for the 2026 UCI Highway World Championships in Montréal unveiled the branding for the occasion this week, taking inspiration from the graphics utilized in 1974 when the World Biking Championships have been final held within the Canadian metropolis.
Along with an official emblem, social media channels have been set dwell with the occasion web site, montreal2026.org.
Will probably be the most important sporting occasion offered in Montréal for the reason that 1976 Olympic Video games, in response to organisers, with 13 occasions contested for men and women from September 20 to 29, 2026.
The announcement was made to commemorate 50 years for the reason that first Highway Worlds have been outdoors Europe. Eddy Merckx gained the highway race for Belgium for a 3rd time, taking the world title on the streets of Montréal forward of Raymond Poulidor of France.
