Former US elite males’s cyclocross nationwide champion Curtis White introduced he would retire on the finish of of the month, after a 12-year-career that spanned cyclocross and street competitions.
“It’s time. This is one thing that I’ve been interested by for a while, and I felt like asserting it now, whereas I nonetheless have some racing left, permits me to retire from racing on my phrases and nobody else’s,” White instructed Cyclingnews.
The 29-year-old from upstate New York was greatest recognized for his accomplishments in cyclocross, incomes 44 elite UCI victories, together with a nationwide title in 2022 and a Pan-American win in 2018. He represented the US at cyclocross Worlds 11 occasions throughout junior, U23 and elite divisions, with a profession greatest eleventh as a junior in Louisville and twelfth place as an elite in Fayetteville.
“There gave the impression to be an alignment of feeling like I’ve given what I might, being virtually 30, and it being time to concentrate on household,” he stated of his resolution to make the announcement this week.
“I really feel blessed and lucky to have spent so a few years competing at a excessive stage and making cyclocross my career. To the entire individuals who have supported me by means of my profession, I cannot thanks sufficient.”
White’s concentrate on cyclocross started as a U23 rider in 2013 when he signed with Cannondale p/b Cyclocrossworld.com. After 9 years there till the group folded, he has raced the final three seasons with the Steve Tilford Foundation Racing Team, successful the USCX sequence twice and the elite nationwide title.
White will make three extra begins and end his racing profession on the finish of this month with the Cyclocross World Cup in Hoogerheide, The Netherlands, as his closing race.
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“Regarding what I plan to do subsequent, I have no idea. I hope to stay concerned within the sport as an advocate, mentor, and coach. Cyclocross and biking will all the time be a part of me, however the full scope of my involvement going ahead will not be but clear.”
Owen Cole, Gage Hecht lead new US home group in North Carolina
Team Winston-Salem formally launched their 2025 as a US home elite programme on Thursday, with a concentrate on nationwide criterium and street races. Former US U23 and collegiate street champion Owen Cole leads the lads’s street group and Gage Hecht, a three-time US U23 cyclocross champion, will concentrate on mountain bike and gravel occasions.
The group contains 13 riders on the lads’s roster and can subject a ladies’s squad, at present with 5 riders, together with Brittany Parffrey, who raced the final two seasons with Miami Nights.
“Team Winston-Salem is fielding a formidable roster {of professional} cyclists for our first season. Team Winston-Salem isn’t right here to simply play good—we’re right here to coach arduous, depart our marks the place we compete and convey trophies again house,” Jon Hamblen, group director and a former professional bike owner, stated in a press launch.
“Our group contains most of the nation’s most gifted riders, and we have now our eyes set on shortly rising as a preeminent Domestic Elite Team.”
Cole, 21 years outdated, returns to his house state after a 12 months with UAE Team Emirates Gen Z, the place he had a podium on the time trial stage at Tour of Sharjah within the UAE and a high 10 at Gran Premio Della Liberazione. He additionally gained a bronze medal at U23 time trial nationwide championships.
On the street, he’ll group with a mixture of veterans and aspiring riders 24 or youthful, together with Jules van Kempen, a twin citizen of the USA and the Netherlands who focuses on cyclocross, and Gregory Santiago Zapata, who races with a Canadian licence and gained a Sprint title on the observe as a junior.
Flow Automotive is the title sponsor of the brand new biking group. Salem Sports Events and Riazzi, Rhyne & Swaim Investment Group are gold sponsors. Other key sponsors are National Cycling Center, Haro Bikes, Julbo Eyewear and Shelco.
Hamblen stays related with Velocious Sports, which is able to function a improvement feeder programme for Team Winston-Salem. This previous season Hecht raced for Velocious Sports.
Men’s 2025 roster
- Owen Cole (USA)
- David Davenport (USA)
- Will Hardin (USA)
- Gage Hecht (USA)
- John Heinlein (USA)
- Francis Juneau (CAN)
- Jules van Kempen (USA)
- Caleb Maxham (USA)
- Zachary Rivenbark (USA)
- Clayton Travis (USA)
- Brooks Wienke (USA)
- Eli Woodard (USA)
- Gregory Santiago Zapata (CAN)
Women’s 2025 roster
- Madison Gallager (USA)
- Rebecca Lang (USA)
- Brittnay Parffrey (USA)
- Sierra Sims (USA)
- Nadine Visser (RSA)
Salt Lake City criteriums rebrand as Utah Crits for 2025
When the American Criterium Classic rolls into the Salt Lake City space on Saturday, June 14, riders and groups will head south of the Utah capital to Sandy for the newly-rebranded LHM l CC Utah Crits. A brand new course close to town corridor at Sandy Promenade will showcase the second spherical of the sequence.
Pro racers will compete for a $20,000 prize purse, cut up evenly between males’s and ladies’s classes. A second day of racing on Sunday follows with laps round America First Field, the stadium which hosts Real Salt Lake and Utah Royals soccer groups.
The Larry H. Miller Group of Companies, which sponsored the Tour of Utah stage race, moved from presenting sponsorship to title sponsorship this 12 months. In 2024 Sandy hosted the ACC cease in early July on the America First Field course, with Kendall Ryan (L39ion of Los Angeles) and Ulises Castillo (iSpeed-Felt) taking the elite victories.
This 12 months’s ACC begins June 6 on the three-day Saint Francis Tulsa Tough.
Tour of the Gila opens five-day UCI stage race with ITT
The 2025 Tour of the Gila, a UCI stage race for women and men in south-west New Mexico, introduced it should transfer the person time trial stage to the opening day, Wednesday, April 23. The five-day stage race will embrace one circuit race and three street phases, concluding Sunday, April 27.
With the UCI phases starting on April 23, a few of the beginner divisions will start competitors on April 24 with the Silver City to Mogollon Road Race, whereas different divisions will begin with the Inner Loop Road Race on April 25.
“Taking suggestions from veteran racers to coronary heart, we’re returning to a format that permits amateurs to expertise extra of what they take pleasure in most about Tour of the Gila: street racing,” race director Jack Brennan stated. “The reordered phases might additionally have an effect on race dynamics. We’ll see the way it performs out.”
In earlier years the Mogollon Road Race was used because the opening stage and the ITT was contested on the third day. The race in opposition to the clock will now align the overall classification for 2025.
Last 12 months Lauren Stephens (Cynisca) earned her first general victory within the Tour of the Gila for elite ladies whereas Tyler Stites (Project Echelon Racing) gained the elite males’s general title.