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The\u00a02025 USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships<\/a>\u00a0continued Friday at the\u00a0Colorado Springs Velodrome<\/a> with Women\u2019s Individual Pursuit, Men\u2019s Team Sprint, Women\u2019s Scratch Race, Men\u2019s Omnium, and Women\u2019s Sprint events.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Men\u2019s Omnium\u00a0<\/p>\n Friday\u2019s session kicked off with two qualifiers for the men, where 40 athletes total took the track for 45-lap points races and their chance to compete for the national title. Twenty-four riders made the cut and would move on to compete in the Omnium.\u00a0After the Scratch Race and Tempo Race, Grant Koontz (Nederland, Colo.; Star Track UCI) and Anders Johnson\u00a0(Huntsville, Utah; Ventum\/Voler) led the pack with 76 total points each. The Elimination Race re-positioned the leaderboard, where\u00a0Graeme Frislie (Paradise, Au.; CCACHE x Bodywrap) moved into the top spot with 114 points.\u00a0In a determined show of force during the Points Race,\u00a0Frislie raced his way to the top podium spot, winning the national title with a total of 191 points. Koontz secured silver with a total of 183 points, and Johnson rounded out the podium with a total of 141 points. Alejandro Che\u00a0(Torrance, Calif.; Turbo Velo Pickle Juice) earned the national title for the U23 category.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Results:<\/p>\n 1. Graeme Frislie (Paradise, Au.; CCACHE x Bodywrap)<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0Grant Koontz (Nederland, Colo.; Star Track UCI)<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0Anders Johnson\u00a0(Huntsville, Utah; Ventum\/Voler)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Women\u2019s Individual Pursuit<\/p>\n The women came to compete on day two, with the top four qualifiers all clocking sub-5-minute times in the 4-kilometer qualifying race. Anna Hicks\u00a0(Boulder, Colo.; UCI CTW: Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28) established a new national record with her top-qualifying time of 4:39.350.\u00a0In the final, Hicks\u00a0and Stephanie Lawrence (Colorado Springs, Colo.; Star Track)\u00a0raced for gold, while Reagen Pattishall (Breinigsville, Pa.; Turbo Velo Pickle Juice)\u00a0and Laurel Rathbun\u00a0(Encinitas, Calif.; L39ION of Los Angeles) battled for bronze.\u00a0Hicks raced to victory with a time of 4:43.044 and claimed the national title. Lawrence earned silver, and Pattishall rounded out the podium with bronze. Pattishall\u2019s performance also earned her the Stars and Stripes jersey for the U23 category.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Results:<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0Anna Hicks\u00a0(Boulder, Colo.; UCI CTW: Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28)<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0Stephanie Lawrence (Colorado Springs, Colo.; Star Track)<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0Reagen Pattishall (Breinigsville, Pa.; Turbo Velo Pickle Juice)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Men\u2019s Team Sprint<\/p>\n Six teams vied for a spot in the Men\u2019s Team Sprint final.\u00a0In a thrilling battle for the Stars and Stripes, Walters\/Reneau\/Hartman\u00a0outperformed the competition, securing the win with a time of 59.971.\u00a0Paul\/Jameson\/Davis put up a strong fight and secured silver with a time of 1:01.152. Alvord\/Roberts\/Koller\u00a0rounded out the podium with bronze.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Results:<\/p>\n 1. Dalton Walters\u00a0(Richardson, Texas), Sterling Reneau\u00a0(Long Beach, Calif.), Joshua Hartman\u00a0(Long Beach, Calif.)<\/p>\n 2. Wyatt Paul\u00a0(Seattle, Wash.; Water Line Racing), Corey Jameson\u00a0(San Diego, Calif.; Water Line Racing), Elliott Davis\u00a0(Long Beach, Calif.; Water Line Racing)<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0James Alvord III (Allentown, Pa.; Edge Cycling), Nicholas Roberts\u00a0(Whitehall, Pa.; Edge Cycling), Finn Koller (Bethlehem, Pa.; Edge Cycling)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Women\u2019s Scratch Race<\/p>\n Twenty-four riders lined up to race for 10 kilometers and their chance to claim the national title. Anna Hicks\u00a0(Boulder, Colo.; UCI CTW: Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28) captured the lead and rode that momentum across the line first, winning her second Stars and Stripes jersey of the day. Olivia Cummins (Fort Collins, Colo.; UCI CTW: Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28)\u00a0earned silver, and Stephanie Lawrence (Colorado Springs, Colo.; Star Track) secured bronze. Cummins\u2019 performance also earned her the Stars and Stripes for the U23 category.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Results:<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0Anna Hicks\u00a0(Boulder, Colo.; UCI CTW: Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28)<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0Olivia Cummins (Fort Collins, Colo.; UCI CTW: Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28)\u00a0<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0Stephanie Lawrence (Colorado Springs, Colo.; Star Track)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Women\u2019s Sprint<\/p>\n In the semi-final, Emily Hayes (York, S.C.) and McKenna McKee (Vancouver, Wash.; Tesseract) battled it out in heat 1, while Kayla Hankins (Scottsdale, Ariz.; American Sprint Cycling Program) and Mandy Marquardt (Allentown, Pa.; Edge Cycling)\u00a0went head-to-head in heat 2. Marquardt and McKee moved through to the final, where Marquardt won both rides and the national title. McKee earned silver, and Hankins rounded out the podium with bronze. McKee\u2019s performance also earned her the national title for the U23 category.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Results:<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0Mandy Marquardt (Allentown, Pa.; Edge Cycling)<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0McKenna McKee (Vancouver, Wash.; Tesseract)<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0Kayla Hankins (Scottsdale, Ariz.; American Sprint Cycling Program)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The\u00a02025 USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships\u00a0continued Friday at the\u00a0Colorado Springs Velodrome with Women\u2019s Individual Pursuit, Men\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[1163,417,1167,1169,1165,49,48,1172,1173,1171,1175,1179,635,1174,1166,1180,1048,1181,1168,1178,1182,1170,1164,582,1176,82,1177,1184,1183],"class_list":["post-90685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-bicycle","tag-bike","tag-bike-event","tag-bike-mechanic","tag-bike-race","tag-ca","tag-canada","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\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}