Marlies Mejias (Virginia’s Blue Ridge Twenty24) wins 2024 Momentum Indy on Mass Avenue forward of Paola Muñoz and Skylar Schneider(Picture credit score: American Criterium Cup / @joe.vond)
Elite ladies’s podium after 2024 Momentum Indy Mass Ave Crit (L to R): second-placed Paola Muñoz, winner Marlies Mejias Garcia and third-placed Skylar Schneider(Picture credit score: American Criterium Cup/ @joe.vond)
Alfredo Rodriguez (REIGN Storm Racing) wins 2024 Momentum Indy Mass Ave Crit forward of teammate Jordan Parra(Picture credit score: American Criterium Cup/ @joe.vond)
Marlies Mejias Garcia (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) received the elite ladies’s race on the IU Well being Momentum Indy criterium this previous weekend, whereas REIGN Storm Racing went one-two with winner Alfredo Rodriguez and runner-up Jordan Parra.
Each Friday evening races underneath the lights in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana got here all the way down to bunch finishes, with factors on the road for the fifth of eight stops on the American Criterium Cup sequence.
Mejias crossed the road a number of bike lengths forward of second-placed Paola Muñoz (Goldman Sachs ETFs Racing). The ladies’s peloton stayed collectively for almost all of the 70-minute race, solely Skylar Schneider (Miami Blazers) making a giant assault to reel within the mid-race ACC dash factors. She then stayed near the entrance and completed in third place, incomes her fifth podium within the American Criterium Cup sequence.
Skylar Schneider retained the lead within the particular person standings for ladies, two DNA Professional Biking riders – Rylee McMullen second 23 factors again and Makayla Macpherson third 9 extra factors again. McMullen has a one-point lead over Schneider within the dash competitors.
“It was very thrilling and I needed to be very affected person,” Mejias mentioned after the race. “It is also a really technical race so you must be on the entrance. The plan was to solely spend power on the key moments of the race.”
Final yr’s winner Kendall Ryan (L39ION of Los Angeles) was not on the beginning line, however reigning US criterium champion Coryn Labecki (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) took half in solely her second ACC race this season and completed one spot off the rostrum in fourth.
The boys’s race on the Mass Ave crit course was centered on the solo breakaway of Josh Burnett (Mitoq-NZ Biking Challenge), to see if he might keep away after going clear within the first 10 minutes on the twisty,‘bow-tie-shaped course. REIGN Storm went into critical chase mode with 10 laps to go and caught Burnett, who at one time had a 40-second margin, on the bell lap.
“We had been actually calm the entire race,” Rodriguez mentioned after the race. “We needed to put the entire group on the entrance for the chase to get the man again. [Burnett] was actually robust, we had been actually pushing.”
Summerhill, who prolonged his dash classification lead, led out his teammates for the one-two end. It was the fourth victory in 5 races for REIGN Storm, the trio on the Indy podium holding robust within the males’s general standings – Parra first with 56 factors, Rodiguez second at 10 factors again and Summerhill third one other 4 factors again.
The subsequent installment of the ACC takes place July 27 on the twelfth annual Northwestern Drugs Lake Bluff Criterium exterior Chicago, Illinois. It’s a part of the 10-day Chicago Grit assortment of criterium races, previously branded as Intelligentsia Cup.
Outcomes
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High 10 elite ladies
Pos.
Rider (Crew)
1
Marlies Mejias Garcia (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24)
2
Paola Muñoz (Goldman Sachs ETFs Racing)
3
Skylar Schneider (Miami Blazers)
4
Coryn Labecki (EF-Oatly-Cannondale)
5
Rylee McMullen (DNA Professional Biking)
6
Makayla Macpherson (DNA Professional Biking)
7
Regina Doty (LA Sweat Racing)
8
Heidy Praderas (Kingdom Elite Racing)
9
Sofia Arreola (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24)
10
Ashley Beimert (Coalition Biking)
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High 10 elite males
Pos.
Rider (Crew)
1
Alfredo Rodriguez (REIGN Storm Racing)
2
Jordan Parra (REIGN Storm Racing)
3
Ben Oliver (Above and Past Most cancers Biking p/b Bike World)
4
Intelligent Martínez (Rockland Growth Crew)
5
Wolfgang Brandl (Maloja Pushbikers)
6
Danny Summerhill (REIGN Storm Racing)
7
Kyle Tiesler
8
Lucas Bourgoyne (Austin Outlaws)
9
Sebastian Cano (Kingdom Elite Racing)
10
Riley Wrightsman (First Web Financial institution Biking)
