ROADVeneto Classic: Italy<\/p>\n
(October 18) \u2013 Brandon McNulty\u00a0(UAE Team Emirates-XRG) completed the road race season with his first win wearing the World Championship jersey. Having broken away with 10 km to go, McNulty crossed the line alone at the Veneto Classic, finishing the 158-kilometer race in 3:32:57.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a really nice way to finish the season,\u201d he said afterwards. \u201cI\u2019ve been enjoying racing in the rainbow jersey these past few weeks, but of course I wanted to get that first win wearing it, so to do it in the last race of the year is pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Results\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n Japan Cup Road Race and Criterium: Utsunomiya, Japan<\/p>\n (October 17-18) \u2013 Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) wrapped up his road season with a decisive win at the 144-kilometer Japan Cup road race. The road national champion beat Ireland\u2019s Ben Healy in a two-man sprint for the finish, completing the race in 3:33:02, more than a minute ahead of the peloton.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you take the start and Ben is here, I think everyone knew we were the two strongest in the race,\u201d Simmons said afterwards. \u201cLuckily the course is selective enough that we can make the difference and have a fair battle between us. I was quite confident in my sprint, so I just knew I had to make it over the climb the last time.\u201d<\/p>\n The day before was the 34-kilometer Japan Cup Criterium, won by Norway\u2019s Jesper Stiansen. Quinn\u2019s brother Colby Simmons (EF Education-EasyPost) was the top-placing American, in 10th place.<\/p>\n Results:\u00a0Road<\/a> |\u00a0Criterium<\/a><\/p>\n TRACKUCI Track World Championships: Shanghai, China<\/p>\n (October 14-18) \u2013 Team USA earned one medal plus a number of top-10 placings at this year\u2019s\u00a0UCI Track World Championships<\/a>, held at the Shanghai Velodrome on Chongming Island.<\/p>\n Megan Jastrab (UAE Team ADQ) battled to bronze in the Women\u2019s Elimination race, placing third in a photo finish. Jastrab has won road and track national and world titles as a junior. This marks the 24-year-old\u2019s first individual Elite Track World Championship medal.<\/p>\n Other top finishes: Graeme Frislie\u00a0(CCACHE x Bodywrap) placed 8th in Men\u2019s Scratch; Ashlin Barry (JEGG – SKIL – DJR) placed 5th and Taylor Phinney\u00a0was 8th in Men\u2019s Individual Pursuit;\u00a0Ashlin Barry placed 4th in Men\u2019s Elimination.<\/p>\n Kristen Faulkner (EF-Oatly-Cannondale)\u00a0placed 8th in Women\u2019s Individual Pursuit;\u00a0Hayley Yoslov was 10th in Women\u2019s 1k Time Trial;\u00a0Anna Hicks was 6th in Women\u2019s Points.\u00a0<\/p>\n For a complete rundown of the action, see each day\u2019s recaps below.<\/p>\n Recaps: Day\u00a0One<\/a> | Day\u00a0Two<\/a> | Day\u00a0Three<\/a>| Day\u00a0Four<\/a>| Day\u00a0Five<\/a> | Results\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n MOUNTAIN BIKEUCI Enduro World Championships: Finale Ligure, Italy<\/p>\n (October 16-18) \u2013 Team USA earned two medals at the\u00a02026 Enduro World Championships<\/a> in Italy. Cyclists vied for world championship jerseys over two days and six timed stages (totaling 37.3 miles), featuring 9,350 feet of descending and 6,070 feet of climbing.<\/p>\n Defending world champion Richie Rude earned bronze in a close elite men\u2019s race. Junior enduro national champion Daisy James\u00a0won silver in the junior women\u2019s race.\u00a0<\/p>\n Americans earned two other top-10 spots: JT Fisher placed 6th in the elite men\u2019s race, and Alison Ward was 6th in junior women\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n Results\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n CYCLOCROSSKings CX: Mason, Ohio<\/p>\n (October 17-18) \u2013\u00a0Kings CX<\/a> served as stop number 4 in the\u00a0USA Cycling CX National Series<\/a>, with UCI C1 and C2 races and two days of age-group competition at Kingswood Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n Manon Bakker\u00a0and Andrew Strohmeyer (Competitive Edge Racing) won day one\u2019s elite women\u2019s and men\u2019s races.<\/p>\n Canada\u2019s Sidney McGill (Materiaal-Lastig) placed 2nd behind Bakker, followed by Alyssa Sarkisov (CXD Trek Bikes), Ada Watson (CXD Trek Bikes) and Lauren Zoerner\u00a0(Corner Racing) in 3rd-5th.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the men\u2019s race, Miles Mattern (CXD Trek Bikes) and Dylan Haynes (CXD Trek Bikes) came in four seconds later for 2nd and 3rd. Ryan Drummond (Competitive Edge Racing) and Canada\u2019s Tyler Clark\u00a0(Caladeon Hills Cycling Armada) placed 4th and 5th.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sidney McGill\u00a0won day two\u2019s C2 elite women\u2019s race, edging out Manon Bakker by one second and Alyssa Sarkisov by three seconds. Ada Watson and Lauren Zoerner were 4thand 5th.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dylan Hanes took the men\u2019s C2 win by one second over Miles Mattern. Calvin Conaway, Tyler Clark and junior 17-18 national champion Ethan Brown (Midwest NXT) placed 3rd-5th.\u00a0<\/p>\n Results\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n Major Taylor Cross Cup: Indianapolis, Indiana<\/p>\n (October 24-25) \u2013 The\u00a0Major Taylor Cross Cup<\/a> hosted a weekend of C2 racing at the Indy Cycloplex course. It was the fifth of 9 stops in the\u00a0USA Cycling CX National Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alyssa Sarkisov (CXD Trek Bikes) and Miles Mattern (CXD Trek Bikes) won the elite men\u2019s and women\u2019s races both days.<\/p>\n Canada\u2019s Sydney McGill (Materiaal-Lastig) came in a second behind Sarkisov, followed by Lizzy Gunsalus (Via LLP p\/b Van Rysel), Finley Aspholm (Marian University) and Kira Mullins (Bear CX) in 3rd-5th.<\/p>\n On day two, the women crossed the line in the exact same order, though Sarkisov had a 52-second lead over McGill for the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n Day one\u2019s elite men\u2019s race saw Calvin Conaway (Midwest NXT) come in 7 seconds behind Mattern for 2nd, followed by Ethan Brown (Midwest NXT), Ben Frederick (The Small Monsters Project) and Mark Myles (Lads Racing Collective) in 3rd-5th.\u00a0<\/p>\n On day two Ethan Brown placed 2nd, followed by Calvin Conaway, Ben Frederick and Tom Scott (Marian University) placing 3rd-5th.<\/p>\n Next up in the series:\u00a0Northampton CX<\/a>, October 31-November 1, Northampton, MA<\/p>\n Results\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n GRAVELBig Sugar: Bentonville, Arkansas<\/p>\n (October 17) \u2013\u00a0Big Sugar Gravel<\/a> served as the finale in the six-race\u00a0Life Time Grand Prix<\/a>series, with elite and age-group cyclists taking on 100, 50, and 25-mile gravel courses through the Ozark Mountains.<\/p>\n Fifty men and fifty women competed in the six-race series, and defending men\u2019s and women\u2019s champions Keegan Swenson (Specialized) and Sofia Gomez Villafa\u00f1e\u00a0(Specialized) came out on top in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s leaderboards.\u00a0<\/p>\n Brendan Johnston (Giant-SRAM), Matthew Wilson, Cole Paton and Bradyn Lange(Canyon x DT Swiss ATR) came in 2nd-5th in the men\u2019s division. Hayley Preen, Cecily Decker (PAS Racing), Karolina Migon and Lauren Stephens\u00a0(Aegis x LOE) were 2nd-5th overall.\u00a0<\/p>\n Leaderboard\u00a0here<\/a> | Results\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROADVeneto Classic: Italy (October 18) \u2013 Brandon McNulty\u00a0(UAE Team Emirates-XRG) completed the road race season with his first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943055,"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-943054","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\/943054","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=943054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}