{"id":915436,"date":"2026-09-30T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915436\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:02:09","slug":"team-usa-recap-mcnulty-won-team-usas-first-road-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915436\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Recap: McNulty won Team USA\u2019s first Road Race\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCI MTB World Cup, Soldier Hollow (XCC, XCO): Midway, Utah<\/p>\n

(September 19-20) \u2013 Soldier Hollow hosted the first of two US stops on the World Cup Mountain Bike schedule with a weekend of short track and XCO racing in Midway, Utah.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gwendalyn Gibson (Trek-Unbroken) placed 2nd in elite women\u2019s XCO, earning her first elite XCO podium spot. Savilia Blunk (Decathlon Ford Racing) placed 4th and Haley Batten(Specialized Factory Racing) placed 6th. Gibson also placed 7th in the elite women\u2019s XCC. Bjorn Riley (Scott-SRAM) was 6th and Riley Amos (Trek-Unbroken) was 8th in elite men\u2019s XCO.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Makena Kellerman had a double-podium weekend, sprinting for 2nd in U23 women\u2019s XCC and placing 3rd in U23 women\u2019s XCO. Nicholas Konecny (Lexware MTB) rode to 5th in U23 men\u2019s XCO.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With one race to go, Bjorn Riley sits 3rd overall in the elite men\u2019s XCO standings. Savilia Blunk is 4th overall in the elite women\u2019s XCO standings, and Gwendalyn Gibson and Madigan Munro are 9th and 10th. Makena Kellerman is 8th overall in U23 women\u2019s XCO standings.<\/p>\n

The season wraps up in Lake Placid<\/a>, New York, October 2-4.<\/p>\n

Results\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n

UCI MTB World Cup, Whistler Mountain Bike Park (DH): British Columbia, Canada<\/p>\n

(September 25-27) \u2013 Team USA captured two gold medals and a bronze under incredibly challenging conditions at the UCI World Cup downhill, held at Whistler MTB Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asa Vermette (Frameworks Racing\/TRP) won the elite men\u2019s race and Aletha Ostgaard(Canyon DH Racing) won the junior women\u2019s final, her eighth podium and fifth WC win this season. Boston Bryant (Outlaw Intense Racing) won bronze in the junior men\u2019s final.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ostgaard, whose time was four seconds faster than the elite women\u2019s winner, also captured the junior women\u2019s overall title with the win. Vermette moved into the elite men\u2019s overall lead, with just one race remaining in the series.<\/p>\n

Luca Shaw (Canyon DH Racing) and Dylan Maples (Pivot Factory Racing) rounded out the top-10 elite men, coming in 9th and 10th.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In junior women\u2019s racing, Samantha Porras, Raina Logar (Frameworks Racing\/TRP) and Kallie Stewart placed 6th, 7th and 9th. Brodey Walker (Outlaw Intense Racing) was 6th in the junior men\u2019s final.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The series wraps up in\u00a0Lake Placid<\/a>, New York, October 2-4.<\/p>\n

Results\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n

Chequamegon MTB Festival: Hayward, Wisconsin<\/p>\n

(September 19) \u2013 Thousands of cyclists tackled a 40-mile course in Wisconsin\u2019s Northwoods at\u00a0Chequamegon MTB Festival<\/a>, the fourth of six races in the\u00a0Life Time Grand Prix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sofia Gomez Villafa\u00f1e (Specialized) won the elite women\u2019s race, completing the course in 2:14:10 and capturing her third win of the series. Karolina Migon (PAS Racing) and Sarah Lange came in 15 seconds behind, for 2nd and 3rd.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Matthew Wilson (Scott\/Shimano) soloed home for the men\u2019s win, coming in at 1:57:50. Brendan Johnston (Giant-SRAM) and Keegan Swenson (Specialized) sprinted for 2nd and 3rd, with Johnston taking the win by two seconds (1:58:48)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Next up in the series is\u00a0Little Sugar MTB<\/a>, October 11, in Bella Vista, Arkansas.<\/p>\n

Results\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCI MTB World Cup, Soldier Hollow (XCC, XCO): Midway, Utah (September 19-20) \u2013 Soldier Hollow hosted the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915437,"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-915436","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\/915436","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=915436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}