Team USA Recap: Americans Score 20 Medals Across Pan Am & Para Pan Am Track Championships
(February 16-22) – Team USA earned 14 medals to kick off their track season at this year’s Pan Am Track Cycling Championships, in Santiago, Chile.
Kristen Faulkner was back on the track for the first time since the Paris 2024 Olympics. She claimed two gold medals - one in the Team Pursuit and another in her first-ever Individual Pursuit.
Eighteen-year-old Junior World Champion Emma Jimenez Palos stepped into her first elite competition, contributing to the gold medal-winning Team Pursuit squad, while also gaining valuable experience in the mass start events.
Search for Speed graduate Hayley Yoslov showed exceptional progress, scoring bronze in the Women’s Sprint tournament. She went on to score another bronze in the 1k Time Trial, with Emily Hayes in 4th.
Newcomer to the track, Anna Hicks took on the Points Race beating out the World Champion, Yareli Acevedo, to win gold. Coming from the road, Hicks first raced on the track at a local race in June 2025 and has since spent some time training on the track with USA Cycling.
McKenna McKee moved from the endurance side to the sprints over the past few years and has been hard at work with the National Sprint Program. She scored bronze in the Keirin, her first individual Pan American medal.
Medal Count:
Four gold medals were awarded in: Women’s Team Pursuit (Olivia Cummins, Kristen Faulkner, Bethany Ingram, Emily Ehrlich, Emma Jimenez Palos); Women’s Individual Pursuit (Kristen Faulkner); Women’s Points Race (Anna Hicks); and Men’s Madison (Brendan Rhim, Colby Lange).
Five silver medals were awarded in: Men’s Scratch Race (Grant Koontz); Men’s Team Pursuit (David Domonoske, Grant Koontz, Colby Lange, Brendan Rhim, Cade Bickmore); Women’s Madison (Olivia Cummins, Emma Jimenez Palos); Women’s Individual Pursuit (Emily Ehrlich); and Men’s 1km TT (Dalton Walters).
Five bronze medals were awarded in: Women’s Sprint (Hayley Yoslov); Women’s 1km TT (Hayley Yoslov); Women’s Keirin (Mckenna McKee); Women’s Scratch Race (Olivia Cummins); and Women’s Team Sprint (Emily Hayes, Hayley Yoslov, Mckenna McKee, Kayla Hankins).
Peñalolén Velodrome hosted 168 athletes from 20 nations over six days of racing.
Results here
(February 25-27) – More than 200 athletes competed at this year’s Pan Am Track Paracycling Championships, held in Brazil. A small American contingent – two visually impaired athletes and their pilots – competed and brought home two gold medals and four silvers.
Michael Stephens and his pilot Joe Christiansen kicked things off with a silver medal in the Men’s Tandem 1km time trial.
Hannah Chadwick and her pilot Hayley Bates won silver in the Women’s Tandem 1km time trial in their first competition together.
On day two, Stephens and his pilot and Chadwick and her pilot teamed up to win silver in the Mixed 750-meter Tandem Team Sprint. Chadwick and Bates added to their medal collection, winning gold in the Women’s Tandem Sprint, while Stephens and Christiansenwon silver in the Men’s Tandem Sprint.
On day three, Chadwick and Bates won gold in Women’s Tandem Individual Pursuit.
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(February 28) – Matteo Jorgenson (Team Visma-Lease a Bike) kicked off his road race season with a 4th place finish at the 188-kilometer Faun-Ardèche Classic. On the decisive climb of the day, Jorgenson stayed with the eventual winner, Frenchman Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM Team), but was eventually dropped and came in with a small group sprinting for a top-five spot.
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(March 1) – On day two of Classics racing in France, Matteo Jorgenson (Team Visma-Lease a Bike) improved his results from the day before with a 2nd-place finish at the 189-kilometer Faun Drome. Jorgenson led a two-man effort for the last part of the race and nearly had the win, but was outsprinted on the uphill finish by Romain Gregoire (Groupana-FDJ United).
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(February 28) – On the opening weekend of pro racing in rural and hilly Flanders, Luke Lamperti (EF Education-EasyPost) sprinted with a large chase group to place 10th at a rainy Omloop Nieuwsblad. The 207-kilometer race is the first Belgian cobbled classic of the season.
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(March 1) – Luke Lamperti (EF Education-EasyPost) continued his cobbled classics campaign with another top-10 finish, placing 9th in the bunch sprint at the 195-kilometer Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne.
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(February 18-22) – Matthew Riccitello (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) placed 6th at Tour of the Algarve, in southern Portugal. Over the five-stage race, Riccitello had two top-six finishes and finished just under two minutes behind the winner, Juan Ayuso (Lidl-Trek).
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(February 27-March 1) – It was a road race and time trial weekend for hundreds of cyclists at La Primavera, in Lago Vista, Texas. The race also served as a stop on the Junior Road National Series calendar.
The elite men’s overall title was won by Luke Fetzer (Team Cadence Cyclery p/b Waldo Racing), followed by Gabe Porterfield and Beckam Drake (The Parks Law Firm All-Stars p/b Velostar).
The elite women’s overall title was won by Grace Arlandson (Aegis x Leaders of Enchantment), followed by her teammates Lauren Stephens and Jamie Chapman in 2ndand 3rd.
In the Junior 15-16 races, Josh Tyers (Hot Tubes Development Cycling Team) took the overall win for the men for the second weekend in a row, with Abby Cole (Competitive Edge Racing) winning the women’s overall. In the Junior 17-18 events, Jacob Hines (EF Education-ONTO) won the men’s overall, with Isabella Kroutil (Fount Cycling Guild) taking the women’s overall.
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(February 28-March 1) – A rescheduled Swamp Classic saw cyclists compete in time trial, road race, and criterium over a weekend of racing in Gainesville. The race also served as a stop on both the Junior Road National Series and Paracycling National Calendar.
In the Junior 15-16 races, Pedro Guzman took the overall win for the men. In the Junior 17-18 events, Lukas Fry won the men’s overall.
In the Trike/Rec/Para category, Noah Middlestaedt took the overall win, followed by Shelly Gautier, Tracy LaMarche, Grace Norman, and Francis Reilly.
Alfredo Delossantos won the overall title in Handcycles H5, followed by Josue Barron and Panagiotis Ampelas.
Casey Falkner won the overall in Handcycles H4, followed by Richard Valdivia, Jared Fenstermacher, Tom Davis and Dustin Baker.
David Mayo won the overall in Handcycles H3, followed by Elliot Vasquez, Peter Park, Ryan Pinney and Brandon Lyons.
Cody Wills took the overall in Handcycles H2, followed by Stephen Zuravel and Nicholas McCoy.
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