Hélène Clauzel (Van Rysel Racing Team) continued to dominate the 2024 US Cyclocross Series (USCX) as she dropped Mannon Bakker (Crelan-Corendon) on the ultimate lap to take her seventh consecutive collection victory, this time on the C1 girls’s race on the Trek CX Cup in Waterloo, Wisconsin on Saturday.
She crossed the road 8 seconds forward of runner-up Bakker and 47 seconds forward of third-placed Sidney McGill (Cervelo-Orange Living).
The ultimate USCX weekend began with final 12 months’s total champion, Maghalie Rochette (Canyon), taking the opening shot, main the cost for the primary half-lap. However, midway by means of the lap, collection chief Clauzel and Bakker took excessive two positions, with Rochette in third and McGill in fourth.
The excessive tempo of the leaders mixed with growing wind speeds and sizzling temperatures turned a significant component within the first half of the six-lap race.
As the race wore on, Clauzel and Bakker examined one another to see the place they could acquire a bonus. The boundaries proved one main spot the place there was a visual distinction in techniques – Clauzel dismounted and ran every time, whereas Bakker rode every time. Further again, early chief Rochette continued to slide again by means of the highest ten earlier than ultimately abandoning.
Clauzel and Bakker had been nonetheless collectively off the entrance as they entered the ultimate till Clauzel was lastly capable of get a separation after the duo handed the second pit.
Behind them, McGill who raced solo for a lot of the race, took third. Caroline Mani (Groove Off Road racing) steadily moved up by means of the group to return in fourth, with Katie Clouse (Steve Tilford Foundation Racing) rounding out the highest 5.
The USCX concludes on Sunday with the C2 elite girls’s Trek CX Cup race.
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