Kendall Ryan (L39ion of Los Angeles) wins 2024 Salt Lake Criterium p/b LHM-CC forward of Skylar Schneider (Miami Blazers)(Picture credit score: American Criterium Cup / @veloimages)
Ulises Castillo (iSpeed-Felt) win’s the boys’s race at 2024 Salt Lake Criterium p/b LHM-CC forward of REIGN Storm Racing’s Jordan Parra and Danny Summerhill(Picture credit score: American Criterium Cup / @veloimages)
Kendall Ryan (L39ion of Los Angeles) and Ulises Castillo (iSpeed-Felt) gained elite races on the Salt Lake Metropolis Criterium p/b LHM-CC on Sunday in Sandy, Utah, which served because the fourth cease of the American Criterium Cup.
Skylar Schneider (Miami Nights) completed second to her former teammate and retained the ladies’s particular person total lead within the eight-race sequence. Jordan Parra (REIGN Storm Racing) used his runner-up end Sunday to maneuver into the boys’s particular person lead. The inexperienced jerseys of the dash competitions remained in possession of Rylee McMullen (DNA Professional Biking), who was fourth in Sandy, and Danny Summerhill (REIGN Storm Racing), who was third in Sandy.
Nonetheless branded the Salt Lake Criterium with a weekend of races close to the state capitol that started in 2019, Provo hosted a gap spherical of races on Saturday paired with ACC races on Sunday within the Salt Lake Metropolis suburb of Sandy. Alexis Magner (L39ION of Los Angeles) beat Skylar Schneider to the road on Saturday for the ladies’s victory, Ryan taking fourth behind DNA’s Makayla Macpherson. It was a deluge of REIGN Storm Racing riders in a males’s podium sweep, Alfredo Rodriguez profitable forward of Danny Summerhill and Parra.
Sunday’s criterium supplied high factors for the ACC on a sweeping 1.28km course with a pointy section of climbing round America First Area, the soccer stadium for the Actual Salt Lake MLS membership and the Utah Royals NWSL workforce. Traditionally, the ACC cease in Utah has been the most popular of the sequence, so far as temperatures. This 12 months the thermometer hovered at a manageable 86 Fahrenheit and warmth took a again seat to a headwind on the brand new uphill end.
Ryan was a part of a small group of girls who escaped by the mid-point of the race, the group together with Skylar Schneider, eventual third-place finisher Shannon Koch (Kingdom Elite), DNA Professional duo McMullen and Shayna Powless, Jenna Nestman (Goldman Sachs EFT Racing, and Arielle Verhaaren (Automated-ABUS Racing).
The DNA Professional duo have been aggressive on house turf in Utah and tried to disrupt the ultimate dash, however Ryan and Schneider surged on the finish with Ryan including a second ACC victory from her first at Tulsa Powerful.
“It was surprising, I wasn’t planning to be within the break, I used to be attempting to provoke for Alexis [Ryan] who wished to go for it,” Ryan mentioned after the end. “I suppose I ended up getting within the magic mixture, so I attempted to be sensible be easy and preserve as a lot as attainable so I’d have vitality for the tip.”
The lads’s race was a sequence of assaults and counter-attacks which noticed an ebb and movement of catches after which an prompt repeat at one other launch on the entrance. REIGN Storm Racing, L39ION of Los Angeles and Miami Blazers have been most lively in not permitting any breaks to get away. It was not till the penultimate lap that Castillo launched his assault and he held off a charging herd of REIGN riders for the victory.
“I felt that the peloton was being actually aggressive with folks attempting to take the lead, so I used to be somewhat petrified of the dash end,” Castillo mentioned later. “I used to be feeling good so I mentioned to myself ‘OK, let’s take it from far as onerous as I can’, so it simply was the right second. Folks have been going onerous and a few riders have been coming again so I attempted it and it labored, they opened the hole and I did one of the best I may.”
IU Well being Momentum Indy begins the second half of the eight-race sequence subsequent weekend, going down July 12 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Outcomes
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Professional Girls – Prime 10 Salt Lake Criterium, Sandy
Pos.
Rider
1
Kendall Ryan (L39ION of Los Angeles)
2
Skylar Schneider (Miami Blazers)
3
Shannon Koch (Kingdom Elite Racing)
4
Rylee McMullen (DNA Professional Biking)
5
Arielle Verhaaren (Automated-ABUS)
6
Jenna Nestman (Staff Goldman Sachs ETFs)
7
Shayna Powless (DNA Professional Biking)
8
Alexis Magner (L39ION of Los Angeles)
9
Makayla Macpherson (DNA Professional Biking)
10
Samantha Schneider (Miami Blazers)
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Professional Males – Prime 10 Salt Lake Criterium, Sandy
