Pua Sawicki became one of the only Americans ever to land inside the top 10 at the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships on Sunday. Sawicki came in seventh, 17:14.2 behind world champion Sabine Spitz (GER) on the 84-kilometer course in Stattegg, Austria. Her American teammate Heather Holmes came in 25th out of the more than 50 female competitors. Harlan …
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Sawicki Seventh at Mountain Bike Marathon Worlds
Categories: Bike News | August 25th, 2009 | by asmith@usacycling.org | no comments
Fort Lewis, Brevard clinch omniums at Collegiate MTB Nationals
Categories: Bike News | October 18th, 2009 | by kkahn@usacycling.org | no comments
Fort Lewis College and Brevard College clinched the Divisions I and II team omniums as the 2009 USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships came to a close on Sunday. Both teams had commanding leads going into the final day of racing – leads which were strengthened even more with some very solid efforts in the downhill finales.
2010 Pro XCT no longer directed by US Cup MTB Management Co.
Categories: Bike News | December 9th, 2009 | by kkahn@usacycling.org | no comments
USA Cycling was surprised to learn earlier this week that despite a signed letter of agreement, the US Cup Mountain Bike Management company will not direct the Pro XCT for 2010. Despite this set-back for both the series and promoters late in the season, USA Cycling is committed to managing the USA Cycling Pro XCT upon the philosophy the series was built.
Collegiate Mountain Bike Nationals open with cross country races
Categories: Bike News | October 16th, 2009 | by kkahn@usacycling.org | no comments
The USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships kicked off on Friday as nearly 300 student athletes converged on the Northstar at Tahoe to compete for a total of 22 national titles over three days. The first day of racing saw the coeds battle it out for individual titles in the cross country contests with the women lining up for three laps of the 7.5-mile course and the men lining up for four.
USA Cycling announces 2010 Professional MTB Gravity Tour
Categories: Bike News | February 23rd, 2010 | by kkahn@usacycling.org | no comments
USA Cycling announced today the 2010 USA Cycling Professional Mountain Bike Gravity Tour (ProGRT). In its second year, the five-race series will continue to raise the level of competitive gravity racing across the Unied States by providing a consistent stage of international-caliber events for elite gravity racers to showcase their downhill skills. The leader of the Pro GRT overall rankings as of July 14, 2010 will also be an automatic selection to the United States World Championship team.
Koerber scores bronze in elite women’s XC at MTB Worlds
Categories: Bike News | September 5th, 2009 | by asmith@usacycling.org | no comments
The United States made its first elite cross country appearance on the podium at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships since Alison Dunlapandrsquo;s storied win in Vail in 2001. Willow Koerber rode to a third-place finish against the worldandrsquo;s best in the elite womenandrsquo;s cross country contest on Saturday. The U.S. team also placed two additional riders inside the top 10 as Todd Wells finished eighth in the elite menandrsquo;s contest and Heather Irmiger 10th for the women.
USA Cycling MTB National Ultra-Endurance Calendar underway
Categories: Bike News | February 23rd, 2010 | by kkahn@usacycling.org | no comments
The 2010 USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Ultra-Endurance Calendar kicked off on Saturday with the 12-Hours of Santos in Ocala, Fla. With wins in the solo men’s and women’s events, Evan Plews and Rita Borelli grabbed the early leads in USA Cycling’s premier ultra-endurance mountain bike race series.