Lauren De Crescenzo (LDC) took a 3rd ladies’s title at The Mid South gravel race whereas Torbjørn Røed (Trek Driftless) received the elite males’s race in a six-rider dash after 100 miles of racing on the pink dust of Oklahoma. Within the nonbinary class, Li King took the victory over Rach McBride.
In a two-up battle simply over seven minutes behind De Crescenzo, Jenna Rinehart crossed the road for second place, two seconds forward of Caroline Wreszin, who took a podium spot for the second consecutive yr. A pack of six contenders chased one other seven minutes again, with Haley Smith profitable the bunch dash for fourth. De Crescenzo set a brand new finest mark for girls with a time of 4:47:42, 7:21 quicker than 2023.
The elite males’s battle got here all the way down to a six-pack of riders who stayed collectively on the ultimate single-track part of the course. Inside 10 miles of the end line, Røed and Griffin Easter created a spot, nevertheless it all got here again collectively within the last three miles for a bunch dash.
Easter missed the win by inches and settled for second behind Røed, who accomplished the trip in 4:26:54. John Borstelmann completed third, leaving Russell Finsterwald, Dylan Johnson and Peter Stetina simply off the rostrum. Payson McElveen, the 2023 males’s winner, completed thirteenth.
Tyler Stites and Scott McGill take UCI wins in Greece
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Venture Echelon Racing notched wins final week at a pair of UCI races in Greece. Tyler Stites took the dash victory on the one-day GP Rhodes. He led the bunch dash throughout the road after 186km, with teammate Scott McGill using to seventh.
On the second day of racing on the 2.2-level Tour of Rhodes, McGill received his first race of the season, a 148km stage 1 from Rhodes to Maritsa, and later completed third on stage 3. Teammate Samuel Boardman took management of the mountain classification after stage 1, profitable the KOM jersey for the four-day stage race. Stites completed seventh within the total, whereas Brendan Rhim was eighth on GC.
After finishing the five-day Volta ao Alentejo in Portugal this week, the crew US Continental squad returns to residence soil to arrange for the Tour of the Gila, April 24-28.
Chase Wark latest rider at Life Time Grand Prix
This yr’s Rock Cobbler winner Chase Wark (Mazda-Lauf Biking Workforce) is the most recent addition to the elite area for the Life Time Grand Prix, which begins on April 19 on the Sea Otter Basic’s Fuego XL 100k cross-country mountain bike race.
The 27-year-old gravel skilled from Minnesota replaces South African Konny Looser on the 60-rider roster for the seven-race sequence. Looser completed tenth total finally yr’s Grand Prix, qualifying for a share within the $250,000 prize purse.
Wark, who additionally owns and operates a training and occasion providers firm, started making headlines in gravel with a third-place end at Gravel Worlds three years in the past, and final yr completed second on the Nebraska race. Most just lately, he positioned second to Keegan Swenson at Valley of Tears Gravel in Texas.
That is the second adjustment made in two months to the invitation-only area for the 2024 Life Time Grand Prix, comprised of 30 elite ladies and 30 elite males. In February, Truman Glasgow crammed an open slot on the lads’s roster when Tasman Nankervis withdrew attributable to lack of monetary sponsorship which might have secured his journey bills for the journey from Australia to the US-based races.
ACC returns with qualifier spots for 2025 US Professional Criterium Nationals
The Amerian Criterium Cup (ACC) sequence returns for a 3rd yr with a lineup of eight races throughout the US, starting June 7 on the Saint Francis Tulsa Powerful. Riders competing on this yr’s ACC now have the chance to qualify for the 2025 USA Biking Skilled Street Nationwide Championships.
The highest 10 within the elite males’s and elite ladies’s total standings will routinely qualify for subsequent yr’s US Professional Criterium championships. Total ACC leaders, in addition to dash and crew division winners, will probably be decided on September 1 when the sequence concludes at Bommarito Audi West County Gateway Cup.
A complete ACC prize purse of $100,000 will probably be shared equally amongst elite women and men in three classes, which is separate from an estimated $400,000 in money and prizes on supply on the particular person occasions, which comprise a complete of 35 days of racing.
“I might like to win the Sequence once more, however conserving the sequence total within the household is basically all that issues. Now we have 4 of the eight winners from final yr on our crew, and I like these odds,” mentioned Danny Summerhill (Reign Storm Professional Biking), the 2023 ACC males’s total winner.
Returning with the ACC dash competitors is a mid-race prize lap at every race. Day by day prize cash will probably be awarded three locations deep, along with the continuing factors competitors.
“The ACC has been a terrific factor for American criterium racing, having a season-long sequence actually elevates the extent of racing and with the inside sequence competitors it actually makes it thrilling for followers to observe. I’m actually trying ahead to seeing how issues shake out in 2024 and hope to possibly defend that inexperienced jersey,” mentioned Kimberly Lucie (DNA Professional Biking), the 2023 ACC ladies’s dash champion.
Additionally new for this season will probably be rankings for the ACC Junior Sequence offered by Renaissance Monetary. After every occasion, sequence rankings will probably be posted on the USA Biking web site.
American Criterium Cup 2024 schedule
| Date | Occasion | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 7 | Saint Francis Tulsa Powerful | Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| June 22 | Downer Basic at Kwik Journey Tour of America’s Dairyland | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| June 29 | Bailey & Glasser LLP Twilight Criterium | Boise, Idaho |
| July 6 | LHM|CC Salt Lake Criterium | Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah |
| July 12 | IU Well being Momentum Indy | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| July 27 | Lake Bluff Criterium at Intelligentsia Cup | Chicago, Illinois |
| August 3 | Littleton Twilight Criterium p/b Audi Denver | Littleton, Colorado |
| September 1 | Giro della Montagna at Bommarito Audi West County Gateway Cup | St. Louis, Missouri |
