USA Biking introduced the roster of 24 riders to signify the US on the 2022 UCI Street World Championships in Wollongong, Australia, going down September 18-25, 2022.
Seven girls and 5 males make up the elite squad for the time trial and street races, the US girls being certainly one of 5 nations to qualify a full quota allotted for competitors. 5 males have been additionally chosen for under-23 honours and there have been a complete of seven juniors – three males and 4 girls – named to finish the lineup.
Kristen Faulkner (Group BikeExchange-Jayco), who gained two phases and the mountains classification on the Giro d’Italia Donne, will enter the 164.3km elite/U23 girls’s street race from Helensburgh to Wollongong as one of many key riders to look at. She can be joined by time trial nationwide champion Leah Thomas (Trek-Segafredo) and Coryn Labecki (Group Jumbo-Visma), who makes her eighth look at Worlds as an elite rider.
A trio of EF Training-TIBCO-SVB teammates are additionally within the group – street race nationwide champion Emma Langley, Tour des Pyrénées winner Krista Doebel-Hickok and top-10 GC finisher within the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift Veronica Ewers. It’s the first time Ewers and Langley have made appearances at Worlds.
The lone US home elite rider is Skylar Schneider (L39ION of Los Angeles), who makes her first look at Worlds since she gained silver within the junior street race in 2016.
For the elite males on the 266.9km street race featured on the ultimate day of the championships, Grand Tour veteran and two-time time trial nationwide champion Lawson Craddock (Group BikeExchange-Jayco) leads the way in which together with three different rising WorldTour stars – Brandon McNulty (UAE Group Emirates), Neilson Powless (EF Training-EasyPost), and Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers). US street race champion Kyle Murphy (Human Powered Well being) rounds out the elite group.
Final 12 months in Belgium, Powless made the ultimate group of choose riders within the elite males’s race and completed fifth, whereas Rivera earned her second Tenth-place end within the elite girls’s street race.
Becoming a member of Thomas and Craddock within the elite time trial occasions on the opening two days of competitors, each races on the identical 34.2km course in Wollongong, can be Faulkner for the ladies’s race and Sheffield for the boys’s race. Thomas was 14th final 12 months for elite girls, whereas fourth-placed Amber Neben has transitioned to gravel racing this season. Craddock was the highest-place US rider within the elite males’s time trial final 12 months in 18th place, whereas Sheffield, 19 years outdated final 12 months, completed Tenth within the U23 ITT.
Competing within the U23 males’s race are Luke Lamperti (Trinity Racing), Sean Quinn (EF Training-EasyPost), Matthew Riccitello (Israel-Premier Tech), Kevin Vermaerke (Group DSM), Patrick Welch (Kelly Advantages Methods), with Quinn and Welch driving the ITT and the street race. The ladies’s U23 rivals can be a part of the elite subject, nevertheless, the US squad didn’t title a rider, aged 17-22, to contest this class. Schneider’s racing age this 12 months is 23, simply outdoors qualification parameters.
The squad for junior males options Alex Gustin and Viggo Moore of LUX Biking Improvement Group and Artem Shmidt (Sizzling Tubes Improvement Biking).
The squad for junior girls is comprised of Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24 teammates Makala Jaramillo and Samantha Scott together with Chloe Patrick (Severe Biking) and Katherine Sarkisov (LUX Biking Improvement Group).
Final 12 months three LUX riders completed as the highest US riders in junior races, Kaia Schmid in second and Makayla Macpherson in fifth for the ladies and Colby Simmons fifteenth for the boys.
Group USA on the 2022 UCI Street World Championships:
Elite Ladies and U23 Ladies ITT (September 17):
Kristen Faulkner (Group BikeExchange-Jayco), Leah Thomas (Trek-Segafredo)
Elite Males ITT (September 18):
Lawson Craddock (Group BikeExchange-Jayco), Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers)
U23 Males ITT (September 19):
Sean Quinn (EF Training-EasyPost), Patrick Welch (Kelly Advantages Methods)
Junior Ladies ITT (September 19):
Chloe Patrick (Severe Biking), Katherine Sarkisov (LUX Biking Improvement Group)
Junior Males ITT (September 20):
Alex Gustin (LUX Biking Improvement Group), Artem Shmidt (Sizzling Tubes Improvement Biking)
Group Time Trial Blended Relay (September 21): tbd
Junior Males Street Race (September 22):
Alex Gustin (LUX Biking Improvement Group), Viggo Moore (LUX Biking Improvement Group), Artem Shmidt (Sizzling Tubes Improvement Biking)
U23 Males Street Race (September 23):
Luke Lamperti (Trinity Racing), Sean Quinn (EF Training-EasyPost), Matthew Riccitello (Israel-Premier Tech), Kevin Vermaerke (Group DSM), Patrick Welch (Kelly Advantages Methods)
Junior Ladies Street Race (September 23):
Makala Jaramillo (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24), Chloe Patrick (Severe Biking), Katherine Sarkisov (LUX Biking Improvement Group), Samantha Scott (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24)
Elite Ladies and U23 Ladies Street Race (September 24):
Krista Doebel-Hickok (EF Training-TIBCO-SVB), Veronica Ewers (EF Training-TIBCO-SVB), Kristen Faulkner (Group BikeExchange-Jayco), Coryn Labecki (Group Jumbo-Visma), Emma Langley (EF Training-TIBCO-SVB), Skylar Schneider (L39ion of Los Angeles), Leah Thomas (Trek-Segafredo)
Elite MenRoad Race (September 25):
Lawson Craddock (Group BikeExchange-Jayco), Brandon McNulty (UAE Group Emirates), Kyle Murphy (Human Powered Well being), Neilson Powless (EF Training-EasyPost), Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers)
