France’s Hélène Clauzel (Van Rysel Racing Team) dominated the elite girls’s US Cyclocross Series (USCX) by sweeping all eight races to say the general title.
On Sunday, Clauzel soloed to victory on Sunday on the C2 girls’s race on the Trek CX Cup in Waterloo, Wisconsin. She crossed the road 20 seconds forward of runner-up Manon Bakker (Crelan-Corendon). Last 12 months’s total champion Maghalie Rochette (Canyon), took third, crossing the road one minute behind the winner.
Under sunny skies, cooler temps, and the identical gusty winds from Saturday, Sunday’s C2 got here off the road spirited with riders shoulder to shoulder vying for the holeshot. Sidney McGill (Cervelo-Orange Living), Rochette, Kaya Musgrave (Cervèlo/Orange Living), and Katie Clouse (Steve Tilford Foundation Racing) led the cost, with McGill in the end taking the lead via pit one.
Soon a lead group was fashioned with Clauzel, Bakker, McGill, Musgrave, Rochette, Lauren Zoerner (Competitive Edge Racing), and Caroline Mani (Groove Off Road racing) trailing by 6 seconds.
By the beginning of lap two of six, Bakker had gone on the offensive forcing a range with Clauzel overlaying the assault and opening a 10-second hole. Behind, the three chasers, McGill, Rochette, Clouse, united with hopes to comprise the Europeans and claw their method again to upset the highest finish of the rostrum whereas Zoerner dangled a bit additional again.
The positions remained the identical till Clauzel took benefit of Bakker’s wrestle on the Factory Hill to open a niche that she would keep to the end line.
In the battle for the ultimate podium spot, Clouse made a robust transfer late within the ultimate lap however crashed on Factory Hill, leaving the door open for Rochette to return to the road third, and put the frustration of the prior day’s abandonment behind her.
Clauzel tops USCX with 360 factors, the utmost variety of factors obtainable over the 4 weekends of racing. Bakker had a gentle string of 4 runner-up finishes and a 3rd place at Rochester Cross to safe second place total with 268 factors. Fifth in Waterloo, McGill collected 5 podium finishes and claimed third total for the second 12 months in a row, eight factors behind Bakker.
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