{"id":80984,"date":"2025-08-19T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80984\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:44:08","slug":"team-usa-recap-mcnulty-wins-tour-of-poland-courtney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80984\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Recap: McNulty Wins Tour of Poland; Courtney\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROAD<\/p>\n<p>Tour de Pologne: Poland<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">(August 4-10) \u2013 Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) won the final time trial stage and earned the overall victory at this year\u2019s Tour of Poland. McNulty started the last stage in 2nd place, just 7 seconds behind the leader, then won the time trial and solidified his overall victory with a 29 second margin over second-place Italian Antonio Tiberi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">It was McNulty\u2019s first win this year and his first World Tour stage race victory. The 27-year-old has previously won time trials at the Tour of Spain, UAE Tour, and Tour of Romandie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">Complete results\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/race.php?r=19&amp;y=2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arctic Race of Norway: Norway<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">(August 7-10) \u2013 Riley Sheehan (Israel-Premier Tech) was 4th and Kevin Vermaerke (Team Picnic PostNL) was 6th at this year\u2019s Arctic Race of Norway. Sheehan supported his New Zealand teammate Corbin Strong, who won the four-day, 658-kilometer race, which traverses northern Norway. Sheehan also placed 2nd in the Youth category, while Vermaerke was 3rd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">Complete results\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/race.php?r=259&amp;y=2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TRACK<\/p>\n<p>2025 USA Cycling Masters &amp; Para-Cycling Track National Championships: Colorado Springs, Colorado<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">(August 6-10) \u2013 More than 200 cyclists from across the U.S. competed over five days of racing at the Colorado Springs Velodrome at this year\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tracknats.usacycling.org\/masters-track\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Masters and Para-cycling Track National Championships<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">Ten world records were broken, 27 national records were set, and 125 Stars and Stripes jerseys were awarded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tracktiming.live\/eventpage.php?EventId=25022\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Complete Results<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usacycling.org\/article\/125-national-titles-awarded-at-the-2025-usa-cycling-masters-para-cycling-track-national-championships\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Race Recap<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MOUNTAIN BIKE<\/p>\n<p>USA Cycling Cross-Country MTB National Series: Ora Trails Fest, La Crosse, Wisconsin<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">(August 15-17) \u2013 Stop number 7 in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usacycling.org\/national-series\/cross-country-mountain-bike-national-series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cross-Country MTB National Series<\/a> saw elite and age-group riders take on challenging courses along the bluffs of the Mississippi River at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oratrailsfest.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ORA Trails Fest<\/a>. The weekend featured UCI XCO and XCC, along with Enduro and XC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">Brian Matter (Linear Sport Racing) took 1st in elite men\u2019s XCC, followed by Landon Dendy(Segment 28) and Samuel Elson (HART Cycling) in 2nd and 3rd. Isabella Robles (HART Cycling) was 1st in elite women\u2019s XCC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">Caleb Swartz (Mondraker\/Forward Endurance) won the elite men\u2019s XCO race, followed by Landon Dendy (Segment 28) and Brian Matter (Linear Sport Racing) in 2nd and 3rd.\u00a0 Holly Kruchoski won the elite women\u2019s XCO race, with Isabella Robles (HART Cycling) in 2nd and Shelby Spaciel (Team Pedal Moraine) in 3rd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">The last stop in the eight-race series is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ybonc.org\/californiamtbtriple\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCI California MTB Triple<\/a>, October 11-12, in Nevada City, California.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">Complete results\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.raceresult.com\/groups\/6788\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leadville Trail 100 MTB: Leadville, Colorado<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">(August 9) \u2013 Keegan Swenson (Santa Cruz Bicycles) won his 5th consecutive Leadville Trail 100 title while Kate Courtney (She Sends Racing) won the women\u2019s title and set a course record in her Leadville debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">Swenson completed the 100-mile MTB course in 5:43:35, more than 15 minutes ahead of 2nd-place finisher John Gaston (Specialized). Swiss cyclist Simon Pellaud (Tudor Pro) was 3rd, in 6:08:21.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">Coming off surgery on a broken wrist just eight weeks earlier, Courtney, a Tokyo 2020 Olympian and 2018 World Champion, finished with the new women\u2019s record of 6:48:55, more than 10 minutes ahead of Leadville defending champ Melisa Rollins (Liv Racing Collective). Rollins also went under 7 hours (6:59:16), the 2nd-best ever Leadville time for women. Cecily Decker (PAS Racing) was 3rd(7:09:48).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">\u201cFor me, this race was about more than a record or a win,\u201d said Courtney afterwards. \u201cI had one of the most meaningful days of my cycling career in a place and at a race that I never expected to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;\">Complete results\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.athlinks.com\/event\/219291\/results\/Event\/1067373\/Results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROAD Tour de Pologne: Poland (August 4-10) \u2013 Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) won the final time trial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,3170,3171,3176,3178,3174,3181,1650,3180,3183,3187,784,3182,3175,3188,3172,3189,3177,3186,3190,3179,3173,822,3184,85,3185,3192,3191],"class_list":["post-80984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bicycle","tag-bike","tag-bike-event","tag-bike-mechanic","tag-bike-race","tag-coach","tag-coaches","tag-commissaire","tag-criterium","tag-cross-country","tag-cycling","tag-cycling-coach","tag-cycling-event","tag-downhill","tag-events","tag-gravity","tag-mechanic","tag-mountain-bike","tag-national-championship","tag-official","tag-race","tag-racing","tag-road-race","tag-sports","tag-time-trial","tag-us-cycling","tag-usac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}