Former US elite males’s cyclocross nationwide champion Curtis White introduced he would retire on the finish of of the month, after a 12-year-career that spanned cyclocross and street competitions.
“It is time. That is one thing that I’ve been eager about for a while, and I felt like asserting it now, whereas I nonetheless have some racing left, permits me to retire from racing on my phrases and nobody else’s,” White advised Cyclingnews.
The 29-year-old from upstate New York was greatest identified for his accomplishments in cyclocross, incomes 44 elite UCI victories, together with a nationwide title in 2022 and a Pan-American win in 2018. He represented the US at cyclocross Worlds 11 instances throughout junior, U23 and elite divisions, with a profession greatest eleventh as a junior in Louisville and twelfth place as an elite in Fayetteville.
“There appeared to be an alignment of feeling like I’ve given what I might, being nearly 30, and it being time to deal with household,” he mentioned of his choice to make the announcement this week.
“I really feel blessed and lucky to have spent so a few years competing at a excessive stage and making cyclocross my occupation. To the entire individuals who have supported me by my profession, I cannot thanks sufficient.”
White’s deal with cyclocross started as a U23 rider in 2013 when he signed with Cannondale p/b Cyclocrossworld.com. After 9 years there till the crew folded, he has raced the final three seasons with the Steve Tilford Basis Racing Staff, profitable the USCX collection twice and the elite nationwide title.
White will make three extra begins and end his racing profession on the finish of this month with the Cyclocross World Cup in Hoogerheide, The Netherlands, as his remaining race.
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“Relating to what I plan to do subsequent, I have no idea. I hope to stay concerned within the sport as an advocate, mentor, and coach. Cyclocross and biking will all the time be a part of me, however the full scope of my involvement going ahead shouldn’t be but clear.”
Owen Cole, Gage Hecht lead new US home crew in North Carolina
Staff Winston-Salem formally launched their 2025 as a US home elite programme on Thursday, with a deal with nationwide criterium and street races. Former US U23 and collegiate street champion Owen Cole leads the lads’s street crew and Gage Hecht, a three-time US U23 cyclocross champion, will deal with mountain bike and gravel occasions.
The crew contains 13 riders on the lads’s roster and can discipline a girls’s squad, presently with 5 riders, together with Brittany Parffrey, who raced the final two seasons with Miami Nights.
“Staff Winston-Salem is fielding a formidable roster {of professional} cyclists for our first season. Staff Winston-Salem isn’t right here to only play good—we’re right here to coach exhausting, depart our marks the place we compete and convey trophies again residence,” Jon Hamblen, crew director and a former professional bike owner, mentioned in a press launch.
“Our crew contains lots of the nation’s most gifted riders, and now we have our eyes set on rapidly rising as a preeminent Home Elite Staff.”
Cole, 21 years outdated, returns to his residence state after a 12 months with UAE Staff Emirates Gen Z, the place he had a podium on the time trial stage at Tour of Sharjah within the UAE and a prime 10 at Gran Premio Della Liberazione. He additionally received a bronze medal at U23 time trial nationwide championships.
On the street, he’ll crew with a mixture of veterans and aspiring riders 24 or youthful, together with Jules van Kempen, a twin citizen of the USA and the Netherlands who makes a speciality of cyclocross, and Gregory Santiago Zapata, who races with a Canadian licence and received a Dash title on the observe as a junior.
Circulate Automotive is the title sponsor of the brand new biking crew. Salem Sports activities Occasions and Riazzi, Rhyne & Swaim Funding Group are gold sponsors. Different key sponsors are Nationwide Biking Heart, Haro Bikes, Julbo Eyewear and Shelco.
Hamblen stays linked with Velocious Sports activities, which can function a growth feeder programme for Staff Winston-Salem. This previous season Hecht raced for Velocious Sports activities.
Males’s 2025 roster
- Owen Cole (USA)
- David Davenport (USA)
- Will Hardin (USA)
- Gage Hecht (USA)
- John Heinlein (USA)
- Francis Juneau (CAN)
- Jules van Kempen (USA)
- Caleb Maxham (USA)
- Zachary Rivenbark (USA)
- Clayton Travis (USA)
- Brooks Wienke (USA)
- Eli Woodard (USA)
- Gregory Santiago Zapata (CAN)
Girls’s 2025 roster
- Madison Gallager (USA)
- Rebecca Lang (USA)
- Brittnay Parffrey (USA)
- Sierra Sims (USA)
- Nadine Visser (RSA)
Salt Lake Metropolis criteriums rebrand as Utah Crits for 2025
When the American Criterium Traditional rolls into the Salt Lake Metropolis space on Saturday, June 14, riders and groups will head south of the Utah capital to Sandy for the newly-rebranded LHM l CC Utah Crits. A brand new course close to the town corridor at Sandy Promenade will showcase the second spherical of the collection.
Professional racers will compete for a $20,000 prize purse, break up evenly between males’s and girls’s classes. A second day of racing on Sunday follows with laps round America First Discipline, the stadium which hosts Actual Salt Lake and Utah Royals soccer groups.
The Larry H. Miller Group of Firms, which sponsored the Tour of Utah stage race, moved from presenting sponsorship to title sponsorship this 12 months. In 2024 Sandy hosted the ACC cease in early July on the America First Discipline course, with Kendall Ryan (L39ion of Los Angeles) and Ulises Castillo (iSpeed-Felt) taking the elite victories.
This 12 months’s ACC begins June 6 on the three-day Saint Francis Tulsa Powerful.
Tour of the Gila opens five-day UCI stage race with ITT
The 2025 Tour of the Gila, a UCI stage race for women and men in south-west New Mexico, introduced it should transfer the person time trial stage to the opening day, Wednesday, April 23. The five-day stage race will embrace one circuit race and three street phases, concluding Sunday, April 27.
With the UCI phases starting on April 23, among the beginner divisions will start competitors on April 24 with the Silver Metropolis to Mogollon Street Race, whereas different divisions will begin with the Interior Loop Street Race on April 25.
“Taking suggestions from veteran racers to coronary heart, we’re returning to a format that enables amateurs to expertise extra of what they get pleasure from most about Tour of the Gila: street racing,” race director Jack Brennan mentioned. “The reordered phases might additionally have an effect on race dynamics. We’ll see the way it performs out.”
In earlier years the Mogollon Street Race was used because the opening stage and the ITT was contested on the third day. The race towards the clock will now align the overall classification for 2025.
Final 12 months Lauren Stephens (Cynisca) earned her first total victory within the Tour of the Gila for elite girls whereas Tyler Stites (Mission Echelon Racing) received the elite males’s total title.