Team USA Recap: Barry Silver at Time Trial World Championships; Vermette and Lopez de San Roman Take MTB World Cup Victories

(September 21-28) – In challenging conditions featuring high altitude, heat, and hills – along with huge crowds cheering them on – Team USA came home from this year’s Road World Championships with several top-10 placings over a week of racing in Kigali. 

Kicking off Team USA’s efforts on day one was Chloe Dygert (CANYON//SRAM Racing) who placed 9^th on the 31 kilometer elite women’s time trial course, in 45:34:77. Ashlin Barry(JEGG - SKIL - DJR) earned silver in the junior men’s time trial, in 29:14:45. Beckam Drake (Hill’s Sport Shop), competing in his first ever Worlds, placed fourth on the 22.6 kilometer course, in 29.21.16. In the 18 kilometer junior women’s race, Liliana Edwardsplaced 9^th with a time of 27:20:17. 

The road race course proved to be a race of attrition for every category. In the first-ever standalone U23 women’s road race at Worlds, Katherine Sarkisov (CCB p/b Levine Law Group Cycling), was the top-placing American, finishing 14^th (3:25:59) in the 119 kilometer race that saw just half the field finish. Her sister, Alyssa Sarkisov (dcdevo Racing Academy) led the way for Team USA in the junior women’s road race, placing 10^th with the lead group.

Chloe Dygert (CANYON//SRAM Racing) and Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Health Cycling) took on the 165 kilometer elite women’s road race, with Dygert managing to stay close to the front of a shattered peloton and earn 17^th place.

The 267 kilometer men’s road race was a battle for survival as well, with just 30 cyclists finishing the race. Kevin Vermaerke (Team Picnic PostNL) put in an impressive performance and was the sole survivor from Team USA, finishing 23^rd in 6:31:36. 

Race Recaps: Elite TT| Junior and U23 TT|U23 Women’s RR | Junior and U23 Men’s RR|Junior and Elite Women’s RR | Men’s RR | Results

(September 17-21) – A week after winning GP Montréal, Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) won the five-day Tour de Luxembourg. McNulty won the Stage 4 time trial and the final mountain stage. It was the second stage race victory this year for the 27-year-old, who won the Tour of Poland in August.

McNulty’s win was the 86^th victory this season for UAE Team Emirates-XRG, giving them the most wins in a season by a pro team.

Results here

(September 20) – Riley Sheehan (Israel-Premier Tech) placed 10^th at the Super 8 Classic, a 200 kilometer Belgian road race that starts in Brakel and ends in Boortmeerbeek. The finish came down to a 20-rider sprint, with Arnaud de Lie (Lotto) taking the win. The other American in the race, Artem Schmidt (INEOS Grenadiers) was 13^th. 

Results here

(September 18-21) – Americans earned five podium spots including two gold medals over a weekend of short track, cross country Olympic, and downhill racing in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. 

Asa Vermette (Frameworks Racing/5DEV) won junior men’s DH for his first World Cup win this season, and Aletha Ostgaard (Canyon CLLCTV Factory Team) took silver again in junior women’s DH to kick off three days of racing.

Vida Lopez de San Roman (Trinity Racing) earned two podium spots, winning the U23 women’s XCO race and taking silver in U23 women’s XCC. 

Savilia Blunk (Decathlon Ford Racing Team) fought back after a crash to place 3^rd in elite women’s XCO. She placed 7^th in elite women’s XCC.

Americans also collected a number of top-10 placings. Bode Burke (Commencal Schwalbe by Les Orres) was 6^th and Luke Mallen 9^th in the junior men’s DH. In the junior women’s race, Matilda Melton (Commencal Schwalbe by Les Orres) was 4^th and Zanna Logar(Future Frameworks) placed 10^th. 

Luca Shaw (Canyon CLLCTV Factory Team) was 9^th in elite men’s DH, while Anna Newkirk (Frameworks Racing/5DEV) took 10^th in elite women’s DH.

Makena Kellerman placed 8^th U23 women’s XCC.

Competition moves to North America for the final two UCI World Cup races of the season: October 3-5 at Lake Placid, New York, and October 9-12 at Mont-Saint-Anne, Canada.

Results here

(September 25-28) – The fifth and final round of the USA Cycling Downhill National Seriescame to Killington Resort, where Americans Aletha Ostgaard (Canyon CLLCTV Factory Team) and Dakotah Norton (Mondraker Factory Racing) took the top spots in the elite women’s and men’s races at the Fox US Open.

Maylei Leaneagh (Zerode, The Ride Guru, TRP, Hand Up) placed 3^rd behind Ostgaard. In the pro men’s race, Richie Rude, Jr. (Yeti/ FOX Factory Team) placed 2^nd, with Asa Vermette (Frameworks Racing 5DEV) and Aaron Gwin (Gwin Racing) taking 4^th and 5^th.

Results here | Series standings | Watch the Replay

(September 20) – Bradyn Lange (Pinarello/Orange Seal) won the elite men’s/Open 19+ race and Lauren Stephens (Aegis Cycling Foundation) claimed her third straight elite women’s victory at this year’s USA Cycling Gravel National Championships. The men and women each completed a 100-mile course with more than 7,000 feet of climbing in southeast Minnesota’s Driftless Area. 

In a tight men’s race, Lange finished in 4:23:21, followed by Michael Garrison (MGR) andCole Davis (Project Echelon Racing) in 2^nd and 3^rd, at 4:23:30; Alexey Vermeulen (ENVE) in 4^th at 4:23:31 and Chase Wark (Lunchbox Racing) in 5^th, at 4:23:59.

Stephens crossed the line at 5:09:51, followed by Sarah Lange in 2^nd at 5:10:15, Lauren DeCrescenzo (LDC LLC p/b Factor Racing) at 5:11:14, Emily Joy Newsom (PAS Racing) at 5:13:48, and Melisa Rollins (Liv Racing Collective) in 5^th at 5:16:00. 

Other age groups and categories tackled 100 mile, 74 mile or 31 mile routes, with 43 Stars and Stripes jerseys awarded over the day.

Race recap | Results here

(September 20-21) – Team USA lined up for the final BMX Racing World Cup of the season, held in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, and came home with a silver and two bronzes over two days of racing.

National Champion Cameron Wood (Mongoose/USA BMX Foundation) earned bronze in the elite men’s race and finished the season ranked 3^rd overall. Junior women’s national champion Derin Merten (Race Inc.) earned silver in the U23 women’s race.

Alexis Alden (Albe’s Bike Shop) took bronze in junior women’s, followed by Ava Corley(Factory Rift/Tangent) in 6^th. 

Daleny Vaughn (Biolab Sciences/ DK Bicycles) placed 4^th in the elite women’s race.

Results here

(September 20-21) – Stop number three of the Cyclocross National Series for the Trek USCX Series was a UCI C1/C2 race weekend at Rochester Cyclocross. Eric Brunner(Competitive Edge Racing) and Andrew Strohmeyer (CXD Trek Bikes) placed 1^st and 2^nd in elite men’s C1 racing, with American Kerry Werner (VeloMafia) placing 5^th.

In the elite women’s race, Manon Bakker (Crelan-Corredon) of the Netherlands took 1^st, with Lauren Zoerner (Competitive Edge Racing) the top-placing American in 5^th.

Sunday’s C2 racing saw Eric Brunner (Competitive Edge Racing) and Andrew Strohmeyer(CXD Trek Bikes) capture the top-two spots again, followed by Kerry Werner in 3^rd and Jules Van Kempen (Team Winston Salem-Flow) in 4^th. 

Raylyn Nuss (Steve Tilford Foundation) and Lauren Zoerner (Competitive Edge Racing) were the top-placing Americans on the elite women’s side, placing 4^th and 5^th. 

Results here | Series standings

(September 27-28) – Stop number four of the Cyclocross National Series for the Trek USCX Series was a UCI C1/C2 race weekend at Charm City Cross in Baltimore. Andrew Strohmeyer (CXD Trek Bikes), Jules Van Kempen (Team Winston Salem-Flow) and Kerry Werner (VeloMafia) took the top three spots in elite men’s C1 racing on day one. 

Raylyn Nuss (Steve Tilford Foundation) and Lauren Zoerner (Competitive Edge Racing) were the top-placing Americans on the elite women’s side, placing 6^th and 7^th behind Canadian winner Maghalie Rochette.

On day 2, Eric Brunner (Competitive Edge Racing) took the top spot, followed by Andrew Strohmeyer and Kerry Werner in 2^nd and 3^rd. 

In elite women’s racing, Raylyn Nuss and Lauren Zoerner placed 4^th and 5^th, behind repeat winner Maghalie Rochette. 

Andrew Strohmeyer is at the top of the series standings for elite men going into the next race, followed by Eric Brunner, Tyler Clark, Kerry Werner, and Jules Van Kempen.

Maghalie Rochette leads the women overall, with Lauren Zoerner the top-placed American, in 5^th.  

The series continues with the Trek CX Cup, October 4-5, in Waterloo, Wisconsin.

Results here  |Series standings