Kim Cadzow, Kristen Faulkner and Clara Emond swept the overall classification at Trofeo Ponente in Rosa for EF Training-Cannondale final week. The 22-year-old Cadzow gained the longest stage of the four-day race, 112.2km from Bordighera to Pietra Liguere, and held on for her first stage race general victory.
Faulkner used a pair of stage wins to complete second general, and take the factors and mountain classifications. Emond completed with a pair of prime 10s to finish the GC podium, whereas Lotta Henttala earned the sprinter’s jersey and the squad took residence greatest workforce honours.
“This workforce is simply insane and all people is simply so pretty. It’s the most effective atmosphere to be in. It feels wonderful,” Cadzow mentioned. “I don’t assume I may have dreamt it. The purpose this 12 months was to win only one race in Europe and now to have a GC is simply loopy.
“Profitable the workforce GC simply exhibits what sort of workforce we’re, what sort of teammates now we have, that all of us work collectively for one purpose and we respect one another.”
Kadzow soloed to victory on stage 1, a day after the New Zealander completed 13 seconds out of the race lead after the prologue. The hilly second day of racing noticed her assault from the primary climb and time trial out entrance for 30km to the end.
Faulkner gained the subsequent two days, ending simply forward of Cadzow on stage 2, and staying forward of the bunch dash on the ultimate day.
Britton and Gordon win Shasta Gravel Hugger
Rob Britton (FACTOR-OVRLND) gained the lads’s general and Serena Bishop Gordon (Sunnyside Sports activities/SMCC) gained the ladies’s open class on the 2024 Shasta Gravel Hugger in Montague, California.
Gordon completed 16 minutes forward of her closest competitor, Clara Honsinger (Workforce S&M), with a second Workforce S&M rider, Brenna Wrye-Simpson, following her teammate greater than six minutes later for third.
Britton was three minutes sooner than Max Ritzow (Expeditors), a two-time runner-up. Stefano Barberi (Orbea/KASK/Circulate Formulation) was 12 minutes off the successful tempo in third.
The 100-mile ‘full hug’ route passes within the shadows of Mount Shasta in northern California, with 10 gravel sectors and connecting pavement including as much as 4,700 ft of elevation achieve. The ladies had been offered a separate begin, quarter-hour forward of different open division riders. In contrast to the latest additions, sunshine changed the previous years of snow cowl.
TWENTY24 Aevolo junior ladies’s workforce names trio of riders
Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24, a ladies’s US-based Continental workforce, and Aevolo Biking, a US home elite improvement squad, joined forces to type a high-performance junior ladies’s highway biking workforce for 2024 named TWENTY24 Aevolo.
Three riders have been named to the squad, 17-year-old Ireland Chen and Helena Jones and Lauren Weigel, each 18. On the opening occasion of the season, Valley of the Solar stage race in Arizona, Jones took second within the 17-18 junior highway race. At Largo Vista Stage Race in Texas, Jones gained the junior ladies’s time trial. From the VBR TWENTY24 junior membership workforce, Brooklyn Raddin was third on GC.
TWENTY24 Aevolo will function its personal finances and construction, beneath the non-profit Tam Biking Inc., with assist from Professional Bicycle owner Basis, Virginia’s Blue Ridge, Domestique Basis and Violich Farms. Riders from the TWENTY24 UCI ladies’s workforce will function mentors on and off the bike.
The ladies’s UCI workforce will proceed to assist a junior membership workforce with the identical identify. Nicola Cranmer, founder and normal supervisor of Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24 Professional Biking workforce, defined this new programme will concentrate on “excessive efficiency” for junior ladies.
“We’ll proceed with the Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24 junior membership workforce. The athletes chosen for the newly-formed TWENTY24 Aevolo will obtain extra monetary assist, there’s extra of an emphasis on excessive efficiency. We initially chosen athletes from our membership workforce as a place to begin however will likely be including new recruits as we determine them from the junior peloton,” Cranmer, founding father of founder and normal supervisor of Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24 Professional Biking workforce, informed Cyclingnews.
TWENTY24 Aevolo will likely be managed by Kaitlin Keough, with Kristin Armstrong serving because the excessive efficiency director and Cranmer as normal supervisor.
“I look ahead to sharing my experiences and bringing next-level efficiency to junior ladies,” mentioned Armstrong, who’s a three-time Olympic gold medalist and gained two world championships within the time trial. “Expertise is falling by way of the cracks as a result of the assist for younger ladies has not met the demand. I commend TWENTY24 and Aevolo for taking this step ahead within the sport.”