American Criterium Cup: Kendall Ryan and Ulises Castillo earn dash victories on second day at Salt Lake Criterium

Kendall Ryan (L39ion of Los Angeles) and Ulises Castillo (iSpeed-Felt) gained elite races on the Salt Lake City Criterium p/b LHM-CC on Sunday in Sandy, Utah, which served because the fourth cease of the American Criterium Cup. 

Skylar Schneider (Miami Nights) completed second to her former teammate and retained the ladies’s particular person general lead within the eight-race collection. Jordan Parra (REIGN Storm Racing) used his runner-up end Sunday to maneuver into the lads’s particular person lead. The inexperienced jerseys of the dash competitions remained in possession of Rylee McMullen (DNA Pro Cycling), who was fourth in Sandy, and Danny Summerhill (REIGN Storm Racing), who was third in Sandy.

Still branded the Salt Lake Criterium with a weekend of races close to the state capitol that started in 2019, Provo hosted a gap spherical of races on Saturday paired with ACC races on Sunday within the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy. Alexis Magner (L39ION of Los Angeles) beat Skylar Schneider to the road on Saturday for the ladies’s victory, Ryan taking fourth behind DNA’s Makayla Macpherson. It was a deluge of REIGN Storm Racing riders in a males’s podium sweep, Alfredo Rodriguez successful forward of Danny Summerhill and Parra.

Sunday’s criterium provided high factors for the ACC on a sweeping 1.28km course with a pointy section of climbing round America First Field, the soccer stadium for the Real Salt Lake MLS membership and the Utah Royals NWSL workforce. Historically, the ACC cease in Utah has been the most well liked of the collection, so far as temperatures. This 12 months the thermometer hovered at a manageable 86 Fahrenheit and warmth took a again seat to a headwind on the brand new uphill end. 

Ryan was a part of a small group of girls who escaped by the mid-point of the race, the group together with Skylar Schneider, eventual third-place finisher Shannon Koch (Kingdom Elite), DNA Pro duo McMullen and Shayna Powless, Jenna Nestman (Goldman Sachs EFT Racing, and Arielle Verhaaren (Automatic-ABUS Racing). 

The DNA Pro duo have been aggressive on residence turf in Utah and tried to disrupt the ultimate dash, however Ryan and Schneider surged on the finish with Ryan including a second ACC victory from her first at Tulsa Tough.

“It was surprising, I wasn’t planning to be within the break, I used to be attempting to provoke for Alexis [Ryan] who wished to go for it,” Ryan stated after the end. “I suppose I ended up getting within the magic mixture, so I attempted to be good be clean and preserve as a lot as potential so I’d have vitality for the top.”

The males’s race was a collection of assaults and counter-attacks which noticed an ebb and movement of catches after which an prompt repeat at one other launch on the entrance. REIGN Storm Racing, L39ION of Los Angeles and Miami Blazers have been most lively in not permitting any breaks to get away. It was not till the penultimate lap that Castillo launched his assault and he held off a charging herd of REIGN riders for the victory.

“I felt that the peloton was being actually aggressive with folks attempting to take the lead, so I used to be slightly petrified of the dash end,” Castillo stated later. “I used to be feeling good so I stated to myself ‘OK, let’s take it from far as exhausting as I can’, so it simply was the right second. People have been going exhausting and a few riders have been coming again so I attempted it and it labored, they opened the hole and I did the most effective I might.” 

IU Health Momentum Indy begins the second half of the eight-race collection subsequent weekend, happening July 12 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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