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Hélène Clauzel (Van Rysel Racing Workforce) continued to dominate the 2024 US Cyclocross Sequence (USCX) as she dropped Mannon Bakker (Crelan-Corendon) on the ultimate lap to take her seventh consecutive sequence victory, this time on the C1 ladies’s race on the Trek CX Cup in Waterloo, Wisconsin on Saturday.
She crossed the road 8 seconds forward of runner-up Bakker and 47 seconds forward of third-placed Sidney McGill (Cervelo-Orange Residing).
The ultimate USCX weekend began with final yr’s general champion, Maghalie Rochette (Canyon), taking the outlet shot, main the cost for the primary half-lap. Nonetheless, midway by the lap, sequence chief Clauzel and Bakker took excessive two positions, with Rochette in third and McGill in fourth.
The excessive tempo of the leaders mixed with rising wind speeds and sizzling temperatures turned a significant factor within the first half of the six-lap race.
Because the race wore on, Clauzel and Bakker examined one another to see the place they may achieve a bonus. The limitations proved one main spot the place there was a visual distinction in ways – Clauzel dismounted and ran every time, whereas Bakker rode every time. Additional again, early chief Rochette continued to slide again by the highest ten earlier than ultimately abandoning.
Clauzel and Bakker had been nonetheless collectively off the entrance as they entered the ultimate till Clauzel was lastly capable of get a separation after the duo handed the second pit.
Behind them, McGill who raced solo for many of the race, took third. Caroline Mani (Groove Off Street racing) steadily moved up by the group to come back in fourth, with Katie Clouse (Steve Tilford Basis Racing) rounding out the highest 5.
The USCX concludes on Sunday with the C2 elite ladies’s Trek CX Cup race.
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