Marlies Mejias Garcia (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) received the elite girls’s race on the IU Health Momentum Indy criterium this previous weekend, whereas REIGN Storm Racing went one-two with winner Alfredo Rodriguez and runner-up Jordan Parra.
Both Friday night time races below the lights in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana got here all the way down to bunch finishes, with factors on the road for the fifth of eight stops on the American Criterium Cup collection.
Mejias crossed the road a number of bike lengths forward of second-placed Paola Muñoz (Goldman Sachs ETFs Racing). The girls’s peloton stayed collectively for almost all of the 70-minute race, solely Skylar Schneider (Miami Blazers) making an enormous assault to reel within the mid-race ACC dash factors. She then stayed near the entrance and completed in third place, incomes her fifth podium within the American Criterium Cup collection.
Skylar Schneider retained the lead within the particular person standings for ladies, two DNA Pro Cycling riders – Rylee McMullen second 23 factors again and Makayla Macpherson third 9 extra factors again. McMullen has a one-point lead over Schneider within the dash competitors.
“It was very thrilling and I needed to be very affected person,” Mejias mentioned after the race. “It’s additionally a really technical race so it’s a must to be on the entrance. The plan was to solely spend vitality on the key moments of the race.”
Last 12 months’s winner Kendall Ryan (L39ION of Los Angeles) was not on the beginning line, however reigning US criterium champion Coryn Labecki (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) took half in solely her second ACC race this season and completed one spot off the rostrum in fourth.
The males’s race on the Mass Ave crit course was targeted on the solo breakaway of Josh Burnett (Mitoq-NZ Cycling Project), to see if he may keep away after going clear within the first 10 minutes on the twisty,‘bow-tie-shaped course. REIGN Storm went into critical chase mode with 10 laps to go and caught Burnett, who at one time had a 40-second margin, on the bell lap.
“We had been actually calm the entire race,” Rodriguez mentioned after the race. “We needed to put the entire crew on the entrance for the chase to get the man again. [Burnett] was actually sturdy, we had been actually pushing.”
Summerhill, who prolonged his dash classification lead, led out his teammates for the one-two end. It was the fourth victory in 5 races for REIGN Storm, the trio on the Indy podium holding sturdy within the males’s total standings – Parra first with 56 factors, Rodiguez second at 10 factors again and Summerhill third one other 4 factors again.
The subsequent installment of the ACC takes place July 27 on the twelfth annual Northwestern Medicine Lake Bluff Criterium exterior Chicago, Illinois. It is a part of the 10-day Chicago Grit assortment of criterium races, previously branded as Intelligentsia Cup.
Results
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Top 10 elite girls
| Pos. |
Rider (Team) |
| 1 |
Marlies Mejias Garcia (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) |
| 2 |
Paola Muñoz (Goldman Sachs ETFs Racing) |
| 3 |
Skylar Schneider (Miami Blazers) |
| 4 |
Coryn Labecki (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) |
| 5 |
Rylee McMullen (DNA Pro Cycling) |
| 6 |
Makayla Macpherson (DNA Pro Cycling) |
| 7 |
Regina Doty (LA Sweat Racing) |
| 8 |
Heidy Praderas (Kingdom Elite Racing) |
| 9 |
Sofia Arreola (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) |
| 10 |
Ashley Beimert (Coalition Cycling) |
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Top 10 elite males
| Pos. |
Rider (Team) |
| 1 |
Alfredo Rodriguez (REIGN Storm Racing) |
| 2 |
Jordan Parra (REIGN Storm Racing) |
| 3 |
Ben Oliver (Above and Beyond Cancer Cycling p/b Bike World) |
| 4 |
Clever Martínez (Rockland Development Team) |
| 5 |
Wolfgang Brandl (Maloja Pushbikers) |
| 6 |
Danny Summerhill (REIGN Storm Racing) |
| 7 |
Kyle Tiesler |
| 8 |
Lucas Bourgoyne (Austin Outlaws) |
| 9 |
Sebastian Cano (Kingdom Elite Racing) |
| 10 |
Riley Wrightsman (First Internet Bank Cycling) |
