MOUNTAIN BIKE
UCI MTB World Championships: Val di Sole, Italy
(August 26-30) – The world’s high mountain bike riders competed for rainbow jerseys over 5 days of racing at this yr’s UCI MTB World Championships. Workforce USA’s squad included 25 cross-country athletes and 25 downhill racers who vied for titles throughout Cross-Nation Olympic (XCO), Cross-Nation Workforce Relay (XCR), Cross-Nation Quick Observe (XCC), Downhill (DH), and E-MTB.
Workforce USA kicked off day one with a bronze within the blended elite XC group relay. Nicholas Konecny (Lexware Mountainbike Workforce), Noah Scholnick (Bear Nationwide Workforce), Haley Batten (Specialised Manufacturing unit Racing), Aida Linton, (Bear Nationwide Workforce), Bailey Cioppaand Riley Amos (Trek Manufacturing unit Racing) every tackled a 3.5-kilometer lap, with Amos wrapping issues as much as safe 3rd behind Italy and Switzerland.
Day two featured brief monitor and one other medal for group USA: Makena Kellerman sprinted to bronze in U23 ladies’s XCC. Within the U23 males’s race, US males grabbed two of the top-10 spots: Nicholas Konecny positioned 5th and Jack Spranger was 8th.
Bjorn Riley (SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing) captured 4th in elite males’s XCC and Savilia Blunk (Decathlon Ford Racing) positioned 10th within the elite ladies’s race.
Downhill motion noticed Workforce USA seize one medal and quite a lot of top-10 spots. Nationwide champion Aletha Ostgaard (Canyon CLLCTV Manufacturing unit Workforce) earned silver in junior ladies’s DH, bettering on her bronze medal efficiency from final yr. Winter Bush (Outlaw Bike Workforce) was 4th. Boston Bryant (Outlaw Bike Workforce) and Luke Mallen (Outlaw Bike Workforce) earned 8th and 10th within the junior males’s DH remaining. In an extremely tight elite males’s remaining, Asa Vermette (Frameworks Racing/TRP) positioned 4th and Luca Shaw (Canyon CLLCTV Manufacturing unit Workforce) was 6th. Anna Newkirk (Frameworks Racing/TRP) positioned 10th within the elite ladies’s race.
On the ultimate day of racing, Savilia Blunk and Haley Batten captured 9th and 10th in elite ladies’s XCO.
Recaps: Relay | Quick Observe & Junior XCO | Downhill | XCO | Outcomes
UCI MTB World Cup (XC, DH): Les Will get, Haute-Savoie, France
(August 20-23) – Within the remaining World Cup race main into MTB World Championships, Workforce USA got here away with two bronze and one gold medal, plus eight top-10 placings at a difficult and infrequently muddy, moist Les Will get.
Aletha Ostgaard (Canyon DH Racing) received the junior ladies’s DH, making it seven podiums in seven World Cup races (together with 4 wins) for the junior ladies’s nationwide champion.
Savilia Blunk (Decathlon Ford Racing) had a double-bronze medal weekend, capturing 3rdin elite ladies’s brief monitor and XCO.
High-10 placings: Richard Impolite, Jr (Yeti/Fox Manufacturing unit Race Workforce) positioned 4th in elite males’s DH, adopted by Asa Vermette (Frameworks Racing/TRP) in 6th and Ryan Pinkerton(Mondraker Manufacturing unit Racing) in 10th. Anna Newkirk (Frameworks Racing/TRP) positioned 5th in elite ladies’s DH. Zanna Logar (Frameworks Racing/TRP) was 5th in junior ladies’s DH.
Bjorn Riley (SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing) positioned 9th in elite males’s XCC. Makena Kellermanwas 6th in U23 ladies’s XCC. Gwendalyn Gibson (Trek-Unbroken XC) positioned 9th in elite ladies’s XCO.
Outcomes right here
ROAD
Vuelta a España: Spain
(August 22-September 13) – After eight days of racing at this yr’s Tour of Spain, Sepp Kuss (Workforce Visma | Lease a Bike) is the top-placed American, sitting 4th total behind the Tour’s chief, Spain’s Enric Mas.
4 different Individuals are competing on the Vuelta: Matthew Riccitello (Decathlon CMA CGM Workforce), Larry Warbasse (Tudor Professional Biking Workforce), Will Barta (Tudor Professional Biking Workforce), and Kevin Vermaerke (UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG). The race wraps up on September 13 in Granada.
Outcomes right here
Tour of Britain Ladies
(August 19-23) – Barely a month after signing a contract to race within the professional ladies’s peloton, Kate Courtney (FDJ United-SUEZ), positioned 11th total on the Tour of Britain Ladies, six seconds off a top-10 spot. The Marathon MTB World Champion and reigning Street Race Nationwide Champion additionally positioned 3rd in Queen of the Mountains class.
Courtney has spent the previous decade gravel and mountain biking, together with incomes world champion titles in 2018 (XCO) and 2025 (XCM). She jumped into the highway scene this yr at Tour de Feminin, profitable one stage and inserting 13th total.
Outcomes right here
Philadelphia Biking Basic: Philadelphia, PA
(August 30) – The UCI sanctioned Philadelphia Biking Basic returned to motion after being off the race calendar for a decade, attracting cyclists from across the globe. Professional males traversed the 14.4 mile circuit for a complete of 120 miles, whereas professional ladies accomplished 62 miles of the circuit, which featured a 17 % grade climb up the notorious Manayunk Wall.
Greater than 100 ladies had been on the beginning line for the professional ladies’s race, with 20-year-old Ella Sabo (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28) inserting 3rd and Kristen Faulkner (EF Schooling – Oatly) 4th for the highest US spots behind the winner, Italian Chiara Consonni, in a dash end. Jamie Chapman (Aegis x Leaders of Enchantment) and Megan Guarnier (CCB Kenetik p/b Levine Legislation Agency) rounded out the top-10 in 9th and 10th.
Riley Sheehan (NSN Biking) was the top-placing American within the elite males’s race, which boasted 125 starters. Sheehan got here in 4th behind the winner, Germany’s Tim Torn Teutenberg. Luke Lamperti (EF Schooling EasyPost) was 5th and Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) was 9th.
Outcomes right here
Giro Toscana Int. Femminile: Italy
(August 27-30) – Katherine Sarkisov was the top-placing American on the Giro Toscana, inserting 10th total on the four-day race. She additionally positioned 4th within the Younger rider class. Grace Arlandson positioned 11th total and 9th within the factors competitors, and the USA group of Sarkisov, Arlandson, Emmi Gilbert, Allison Mrugal and Alyssa Sarkisov positioned 4th within the group competitors.
Outcomes right here
UCI Gran Fondo World Championships: Niseko, Japan
(August 26-30) – Fifty-four American cyclists ages 19-78 competed with novice cyclists from across the globe in time trial and highway races in Niseko, Japan, at this yr’s Gran Fondo World Championships. Riders took on 140-kilometer (Gran Fondo) and 80-kilometer (Medio Fondo) highway race programs, together with time trial and group relay competitions.
High Street Race Outcomes:
Ladies: Susan Haid, bronze (60-64 Medio Fondo); Betsy Laborious, silver (65-69 Medio Fondo); Patricia Caldeira, gold (70-74 Medio Fondo)
Males: Andrew Knight, bronze (45-49 Gran Fondo); Douglas Pomeranz, gold (65-69 Medio Fondo)
High Time Trial Outcomes:
Ladies: Patricia Caldeira, gold (70-74); Betsy Laborious, silver (65-69); Jane Despas, silver (60-64); Karla Antonio, silver (55-59); Molly Van Houweling, gold (50-54)
Males: James Dickerson, gold (70-74); Tim Stone, bronze (65-69); Brendon Sullivan, bronze (60-64); Andrew Knight, silver (45-49); Christopher Pulomenia, bronze (35-39)
Outcomes: Street race | Time trial
TRACK
USA Biking Elite Observe Nationwide Championships: Carson, California
(August 20-23) – Elite monitor athletes from throughout the US vied for nationwide titles over 4 days of racing at this yr’s USA Biking Elite Observe Nationals, held on the VELO Sports activities Heart, the long run LA28 Olympic & Paralympic monitor biking venue.
For a whole rundown of every day’s races and winners of Stars and Stripes jerseys, see race recaps under.
Recaps: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Outcomes
UCI Junior Observe World Championships: Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
(August 19-23) – Emma Jimenez Palos (Metropolis Bikes Miami Racing) received three medals over 4 days of racing at this yr’s UCI Junior Observe World Championships, held at Belgium’s Vlaanderen Heusden-Zolder Velodrome. Junior cyclists ages 17-18 vied for 22 titles. Workforce USA was represented by two junior ladies: Jimenez Palos, who received gold (Scratch race) and silver (Particular person Pursuit) eventually yr’s World Championships, and Rue Tomko (Jerry Baker Juniors), making her World Championship debut.
Jimenez Palos defended her world championship title on day one, profitable gold within the Scratch race. On day three she competed within the Omnium and after a decent battle, earned silver. And on the ultimate day of racing, Jiminez Palos earned silver in Particular person Pursuit.
