USA Crits: Alfredo Rodriguez and Alexis Manger sew up sequence title at Winston-Salem Cycling Classic

Alfredo Rodriguez (REIGN Storm Racing) and Sofía Arreola de Finsterwald (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) claimed victories within the elite races on the Winston-Salem Cycling Classic (WSCC), the ultimate point-scoring spherical within the USA Crits sequence.

Rodriguez secured the boys’s particular person title for USA Crits along with his victory Saturday, including a fourth podium within the sequence. Roderyck Asconeguy Diaz (MC Cycling Team) was second general and it was a title wave of REIGN Storm riders finishing the highest 5 – Danny Summerhill in third, Bryan Gomez in fourth and Jordan Parra in fifth. Michael Garrison (MGR p/b NICH SpeedClub), who didn’t race in North Carolina, took the lap honours within the sequence.

With a fourth-place end within the WSCC, Alexis Magner (L39ION of Los Angeles) received the ladies’s particular person title for USA Crits with a large margin over her closest adversaries, second-placed Harriet Owen (DNA Pro Cycling) and third-placed Kendall Ryan (L39ION of Los Angeles), who had been absent in North Carolina. Ivanie Blondin (Goldman Sachs ETFs) and Elizabeth Harden (Work Hard Be Humble Cycling) had been fourth and fifth general, respectively. Kaitlyn Rauwerda (DNA Pro Cycling) was the ladies’s prime lap chief within the sequence.

REIGN Storm Racing received the boys’s group general within the sequence, whereas Goldman Sachs ETFs Racing took the ladies’s group title.

USA Crits included six established criterium races throughout April and May in a trio of southern states. The assortment of races supplied a base prize purse for elite riders of $200,000, primarily based on a mix of particular person race payouts and a sequence bonus for prime 10 elite males, elite ladies and groups.   

The finale in Winston-Salem used a downtown course which looped up round Bailey Park, which hosts stay live shows all day. 

Arreola attacked within the last laps to assert victory with Heidy Praderas (Kingdom Elite Racing) and Arreola’s teammate Marlies Mejias, who received the race final 12 months, finishing the ladies’s podium. For the Virginia’s Blue Ridge duo, Winston-Salem was their first and solely race of the sequence, as they’d targeted on stage racing. Mejias received 4 phases throughout Tour of the Gila, Tucson Bicycle Classic and Valley of the Sun, and Arreola received a stage and the general at Tucson Bicycle Classic.

On the boys’s aspect, REIGN Storm Racing managed the race and Rodriguez received by a number of bike lengths over Cole Davis, driving solo for Ribble Rebellion in North Carolina. Alberto Ramos (CRCA/Foundation) was third.

Winston-Salem Cycling Classic – elite ladies

Winston-Salem Cycling Classic – elite males