USA Cycling introduced an 11-event lineup for the 2024 Cyclocross National Series, which is able to embrace the Pan American Continental Championships on November 3 in Missoula, Montana.
The sequence replicates the previous Professional Cyclocross calendar (ProCX), retaining a collection of UCI-inscripted races – six of them class 1 – to supply factors for home rankings amongst elite males and elite girls.
“The Cyclocross National Series showcases a number of the most revered cyclocross races within the nation. Each location options distinctive and difficult programs that can present racers the prospect to exhibit their expertise and power,” mentioned Kyle Knott, USA Cycling’s Director of National Events.
Englewood CX in Wisconsin serves because the opening occasion on the calendar, September 7-8 and is the one new weekend of UCI races on the calendar. The compilation of occasions concludes at North Carolina Grand Prix in Hendersonville, North Carolina on November 23-24.
Thunder CX and Nash Dash return for a second season, all races as C2. Thunder CX takes place on the similar venue in Missoula, Montana that might be used the next day for the Pan American Championships.
Last 12 months Caroline Mani of Canada gained the ladies’s general of the season-long US cyclocross sequence, whereas Curtis White took the boys’s general on his dwelling turf.
Among 11 weekends throughout three months, a stretch of 4 occasions double for factors within the Trek USCX sequence, which supplies a $15,000 season-ending prize purse for elite divisions.
The second cease of the National Series, Virginia’s Blue Ridge Go Cross, is the opener for USCX on September 14-15. The subsequent three consecutive weekends – Rochester Cyclocross in New York, Charm City Cross in Maryland, Trek CX Cup in Wisconsin – full the USCX schedule, all 4 occasions providing a mixture of C1/C2 races.
The USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships will return to Louisville, Kentucky two weeks following the North Carolina Grand Prix. The schedule of occasions from December 9-15, 2024 is but to be introduced.
2024 Cyclocross National Series schedule
* denotes a part of USCX sequence
- September 7-8 – Englewood CX (C2) at Fall River, Wisconsin
- September 14-15 – Virginia’s Blue Ridge Go Cross* (C1/C2) at Roanoke, Virginia
- September 21-22 – Rochester Cyclocross* (C1/C2) at Rochester, New York
- September 28-29 – Charm City Cross (C1/C2)* at Baltimore, Maryland
- October 5-6 – Trek CX Cup* (C1/C2) at Waterloo, Wisconsin
- October 12-13 – Major Taylor Cross Cup (C2) at Indianapolis, Indianapolis
- October 19-20 – Kings CX (C1/C2) at Mason, Ohio
- October 26-27 – Really Rad Festival of Cyclocross (C1/C2) at Falmouth, Massachusets
- November 2-3 – -Thunder Cross (C2) and Pan American Continental Championships at Missoula, Montana
- November 16-17 – Nash Dash – EPTC CX (C2) at Hampton, Georgia
- November 23-24 – North Carolina Grand Prix (C2) at Hendersonville, North Carolina