USA Biking right now introduced its rosters for the 2024 UCI Highway Biking World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, later this month.
Happening between September 21 by way of twenty ninth, athletes will compete within the particular person time trial, highway race, and crew time trial/relay throughout the junior, U23, elite, and paracycling classes.
Headlining the ladies’s crew are Olympic highway race champion Kristen Faulkner (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) and Olympic time trial bronze medalist Chloé Dygert (CANYON//SRAM Racing).
Faulkner is having fun with her finest season but. The 31-year-old Alaskan netted an early-season win at Omloop van het Hageland, a Grand Tour stage win on the Vuelta España Femenina, grew to become the U.S. nationwide highway racing champion, and earned two gold medals on the Paris Olympics. At Worlds, Faulkner was nominated to compete in each the time trial and highway race however opted to focus solely on the highway race. All eyes will as an alternative be on Dygert, the reigning world champion within the race in opposition to the clock. On account of an Achilles harm and a bout of COVID-19 within the spring, Dygert has solely made seven highway race appearances in 2024, however the two-time world time trial champion seems to be in good type. She, too, returned from the Paris Olympics with two medals: bronze within the particular person time trial and gold within the crew pursuit alongside Faulkner.
The 2 medalists can be joined by U.S. Nationals silver medalist Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Well being Biking), Emily Ehrlich (Crew Twenty24), Heidi Franz (Lifeplus-Wahoo), and former U.S. nationwide highway racing and present gravel champion Lauren Stephens (Cynisca Biking). Forty-nine-year-old Amber Neben, a two-time world time trial champion, will make her seventeenth look on the UCI World Championships, competing within the time trial solely.
On the boys’s facet, the highway biking crew is led by Olympians Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Brandon McNulty (Crew UAE), each coming off stellar seasons. McNulty had the honour of donning the primary pink jersey of the 2024 Vuelta a España (nonetheless ongoing) after storming to victory within the opening time trial. He additionally claimed time trial wins on the Tour de Romandie, the UAE Tour, and the U.S. Nationwide Championships, making him a favorite for the UCI World Time Trial Championship on September 22.
Jorgenson can be one to look at within the highway race. The 25-year-old Idahoan impressed on the Tour de France, ending eighth general, regardless of using in help of second-place finisher Jonas Vingegaard. He practically gained a stage however needed to accept second on stage 19. The gifted climber has loved a breakout season together with his new Visma-Lease a Bike crew, which has additionally seen him win Paris-Good and Dwars door Vlaanderen and end second within the Critérium du Dauphiné.
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Jorgenson and McNulty can be joined by U.S. nationwide highway racing champion Sean Quinn (EF Schooling-EasyPost) and his teammate Neilson Powless (EF Schooling-EasyPost), Kevin Vermaerke (Crew dsm-firmenich PostNL), Riley Sheehan (Israel – Premier Tech), and former U.S. highway racing champion Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek).
Crew USA on the 2024 UCI Highway World Championships:
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Elite Males
Matteo Jorgenson (Boise, Idaho; Visma – Lease A Bike) – Highway Race
Riley Sheehan (Boulder, Colo.; Israel – Premier Tech) – Highway Race
Brandon McNulty (Phoenix, Ariz.; Crew UAE) – Highway Race, Time Trial
Sean Quinn (Sherman Oaks, Calif.; EF Schooling-EasyPost) – Highway Race
Neilson Powless (Roseville, Calif.; EF Schooling-EasyPost) – Highway Race
Kevin Vermaerke (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.; Crew dsm-firmenich PostNL) – Highway Race
Magnus Sheffield (Pittsford, N.Y.; Ineos Grenadiers) – Highway Race, Time Trial
Quinn Simmons (Durango, Colo.; Lidl-Trek) – Highway Race
Elite Ladies
Chloe Dygert (Brownsburg, Ind.; CANYON//SRAM Racing) – Highway Race, Time Trial
Ruth Edwards (Nederland, Colo.; Human Powered Well being Biking) – Highway Race, Time Trial
Emily Ehrlich (Greenville, S.C.; Crew Twenty24) – Highway Race, Time Trial
Kristen Faulkner (Homer, Alaska; EF-Oatly-Cannondale) – Highway Race
Heidi Franz (Seattle, Wash.; Lifeplus – Wahoo) – Highway Race
Amber Neben (Irvine, Calif.) – Time Trial
Lauren Stephens (Dallas; Cynisca Biking) – Highway Race
*Kristen Faulkner and Taylor Knibb, the triathlete who gained the US Nationwide Championships, each declined their Time Trial nominations.
