Team USA captured silver within the males’s Team Pursuit on the UCI Track Nations Cup in Konya, Turkey the weekend of March 15-16. The squad of Ashlin Barry, David Dononoske, Graeme Frisle and Anders Johnson additionally set a brand new National file with a time of three:47.
In addition to the silver medal, 17-year-old Barry, present US junior street and time trial nationwide champion, positioned second within the elite males’s Omnium.
Over the 4 occasions, Barry positioned fourth in Scratch, gained the Tempo race, completed third in Elimination and was main the Points race however positioned second, one level behind the general winner Yanne Dorenbos of the Netherlands. Barry was the youngest of 37 rivals within the subject, which included 20-year-old Ben Wiggins of Great Britain, who completed tenth.
Mexico’s Yareli Acevedo Mendoza gained the gold in an thrilling elite girls’s Elimination Race, making her transfer on the ultimate nook round Lisa van Belle of the Netherlands to win by a motorcycle size. She was sixth general within the girls’s Omnium.
Replays of the 2 days of racing on the Konya velodrome, which opened in 2022, might be seen by US and Canadian audiences on FloBikes, with a paid subscription. This is the fifth season for the UCI Track Nations Cup, and up to now, the spherical in Turkey is the one competitors on the 2025 calendar, which has had three stops.
Domonoske and Johnson had been named to the endurance squad for Team USA to compete within the Pan American Track Cycling Championships, to be held April 1-6 in Asuncion, Paraguay.
PAS Development Team stuffed by three U23 riders from US
Three US children from Colorado have been chosen to experience on the PAS Development Team, formally launched this week by Pas Normal Studios to help and nurture the following technology of gravel racers in North America.
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Samantha Campbell and Scarlett Hardie are each from Grand Junction whereas Oliver Rutberg resides in Colorado Springs. Campbell, who turns 21 this yr, gained the ladies’s senior division (ages 19-29) at US Marathon Mountain Bike Nationals final yr and the ladies’s senior MTB quick observe title in 2023. She competed beforehand on the Colorado Mesa University biking workforce.
Hardie continues to be a teen and just lately accomplished a number of seasons in mountain bike competitions with the Colorado High School Cycling League. Two years in the past she gained Arizona’s Cactus Cup girls’s 13-15 division MTB race.
Rutberg, who turned 18 in November final yr, completed third within the males’s 17-and-under division on the 99-mile Blue Course at SBT GRVL final yr. 2024 was a great yr in different disciplines, as he gained the Pikes Peak Apex mountain bike occasion and earned the lads’s 17-18 junior street title on the Colorado State Championships.
French cyclocross veteran and a US resident, Caroline Mani, will function the mentor for the riders. The trio may even obtain complete help with the PAS Development programme, together with race bills, coaching camps, high-performance attire, and gear. The workforce kicks off its season with a coaching camp in March earlier than competing in key races that embrace Sea Otter Classic (April), Unbound Gravel (May and STB GRVL (June).
“I’ve loved placing this mission collectively and seeing it come to life. It’s extremely rewarding to present these younger, proficient riders the chance to compete at a excessive degree within the gravel scene whereas nonetheless specializing in their training. This program is about extra than simply racing – it’s about making a pathway the place they will develop as athletes and people with out having to decide on between their ardour for biking and their future,” stated Sune Nicolajsen, US basic supervisor at Pas Normal Studios.
The PAS Racing Team has 16 elite rides on their professional gravel workforce, together with Denmark’s Tobias Mørch Kongstad (third at Unbound Gravel 200 in 2024), Norway’s Simen Nordahl Svendsen (2024 Gravel Earth Series general winner for males), USA’s Morgan Aguirre (2024 Gravel Earth Series runner-up for girls) and Karolina Migoń (2024 Traka 360 winner and ladies’s general winner for Global Earth Series).
Sunny King Criterium provides state, collegiate championships with USA CRITS races
USA CRITS start their sixteenth season on April 5 with the Sunny King Criterium and this yr organisers of the Anniston, Alabama occasion will award state championship and collegiate titles throughout two days of racing.
Alabama State Criterium championships on Saturday might be awarded in six divisions, three for girls and three for males, on the identical four-corner course because the USA CRITS occasions.. The Choccolocco street race on Sunday, a 13.5-mile (21.7km) circuit, might be even have six divisions, the variety of laps various for every division.
The Sunny King Criterium will host the Southeast Collegiate Conference Championships, with seven divisions, three of these for girls. There might be 5 divisions within the collegiate championships for the street race, two of these for girls.
Under the lights within the early night on Saturday, elite girls and elite males will battle for the primary placings within the nine-race USA CRITS competitors, which culminates on the Winston-Salem Cycling Classic in North Carolina on May 24.
Live streaming might be offered for all USA CRITS occasions, with further protection on Saturday on the Sunny King Criterium for the beginner races. In mixture with extra criteriums within the southeast for Speed Week, a prize purse of greater than $170,000 is up for grabs, divided evenly between elite girls and elite males, together with general prizes for prime groups.