USA Cycling introduced a deep workforce of contenders to race for the rainbow bands on the UCI Road World Championships in Zurich this month, headlined by Olympic double gold medalist Kristen Faulkner and Dwars door Vlaanderen winner Matteo Jorgenson.
Worlds begin on September 22 with the elite males’s and girls’s particular person time trials. Faulkner opted to not compete within the time trial and can solely race the elite ladies’s highway race on September 28.
Defending world champion and Olympic bronze medalist Chloé Dygert will line up for the time trial alongside former champion Amber Neben, Ruth Edwards and Emily Ehrlich.
Brandon McNulty and Magnus Sheffield will deal with the boys’s particular person time trial.
In the under-23 and junior classes, the US workforce have a number of contenders, most notably in Ashlin Barry, son of former professionals Dede and Michael Barry within the junior males’s area, whereas AJ August and Artem Shmidt lead the cost within the under-23 males’s time trial.
The elite males’s and girls’s highway races shut out the week of racing in Zurich. Faulkner, Dygert, Edwards and Ehrlich are joined by Lauren Stephens and Heidi Franz on the roster.
Quinn Simmons makes his return to racing for the World Championships, racing alongside Jorgenson, Riley Sheehan, McNulty, Sean Quinn, Neilson Powless, Kevin Vermaerke and Sheffield within the closing occasion, the elite males’s highway race.
USA Cycling for the 2024 UCI Road World Championships
Elite Women
- Chloe Dygert (Canyon-SRAM) – Road Race, Time Trial
- Emily Ehrlich (Twenty 24) – Road Race, Time Trial
- Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Health) – Road Race, Time Trial
- Amber Neben – Time Trial
- Kristen Faulkner (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) – Road Race
- Heidi Franz (Lifeplus-Wahoo) – Road Race
- Lauren Stephens (Cynisca) – Road Race
Elite Men
- Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) – Road Race, Time Trial
- Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) – Road Race, Time Trial
- Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease A Bike) – Road Race
- Riley Sheehan (Israel-Premier Tech) – Road Race
- Sean Quinn (EF Education-EasyPost) – Road Race
- Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) – Road Race
- Kevin Vermaerke (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) – Road Race
- Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) – Road Race
U23 Men
- AJ August (Ineos Grenadiers) – Road Race, Time Trial
- Gavin Hlady (Aevolo Cycling Team) – Road Race
- Cole Kessler (Lidl-Trek) – Road Race
- Artem Shmidt (Hagens Berman Jayco) – Road Race, Time Trial
- Colby Simmons (Visma-Lease a Bike Development) – Road Race
Junior Women
- Lidia Cusack (Dcdevo Racing Academy) – Road Race, Time Trial
- Helena Jones (Team Twenty24) – Road Race, Time Trial
- Vida Lopez de San Roman (Bear National Team) – Road Race
- Alyssa Sarkisov (Dcdevo Racing Academy) – Road Race
Junior Men
- Gray Barnett (EF Education-ONTO) – Road Race
- Ashlin Barry (EF Education-ONTO) – Road Race, Time Trial
- Peyton Burckel (EF Education-ONTO) – Road Race
- Braden Reitz (Decathlon AG2R la Mondiale Newgen) – Road Race
- Noah Streif (EF Education-ONTO) – Road Race