Organisers of the American Criterium Cup confirmed the eight-race schedule for a fourth version of the gathering of established, one-day US races for elite men and women in 2025.
The collection has an virtually similar calendar with a number of geographic modifications for a zig-zagging sample throughout eight central and western US states. Racing begins June 6 on the Friday evening race for Saint Francis Tulsa Powerful in Oklahoma and culminates Labour Day weekend on the Gateway Cup in Missouri.
Modifications on the menu embrace a transfer from July to June 14 for the Salt Lake Metropolis Criterium, now the second cease and one week after Tulsa Powerful, with a brand new venue but to be confirmed. The Bailey & Glasser Twilight Criterium in Idaho strikes from June to July 19.
Whereas the Utah and Idaho races used to go back-to-back, there’s now a one-month hole between the dates and the IU Well being Momentum Indy in Indiana and the Historic Downer Avenue race (a part of Tour of America’s Dairyland) in between.
In the course of the Chicago Grit week, the ACC cease can be on the ultimate Sunday on the Fulton Market venue on July 27, a change from a Saturday race in Lake Bluff. Whereas there may be battle with the brand new date for Boise being on the opening day of Chicago Grit, that weekend of racing within the Chicago space is non-ACC associated. The opposite returning race is the Audi Denver Littleton Twilight Criterium in Colorado on August 2.
“The members occasions of the American Criterium Cup are excited to launch their fourth season, weaving collectively eight of the most effective days of criterium racing in eight cities crossing the US,” Mike Weiss, occasion director for the Gateway Cup and supervisor of the ACC, instructed Cyclingnews.
“Returning for the 2025 season, the ACC Renaissance Monetary Junior Sequence will spotlight the highest 15/16 and 17/18 junior women and men. This program connects the longer term prime US U18 cyclists with present skilled women and men by way of post-season mentoring and group camps.”
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Skylar Schneider (Miami Blazers) and Jordan Parra (REIGN Storm Racing) gained the person titles within the American Criterium Cup final 12 months, with Schneider including the dash competitors general. Danny Summerhill led wire-to-wire within the males’s dash classification, whereas his REIGN Storm Racing squad dominated the boys’s group standings.
The ladies’s competitors will see reshuffling subsequent 12 months as DNA Professional Biking, the highest ladies’s group, closed their doorways after 12 seasons and three of the highest 4 particular person ladies will journey for brand new groups. Skylar Schneider has moved to the WorldTour with SD Worx-Protime, Rylee McMullen to Virginia’s Blue Ridge and Alexis Magner to Cynisca Biking.
Final 12 months, riders and groups took house shares in a complete prize purse of $100,000 with the highest males’s and girls’s groups incomes $10,000 every. The person prize cash was paid 10 deep, and there was one other $12,000 cut up among the many prime three general sprinters in every class. Weiss instructed Cyclingnews {that a} last prize purse, awards construction and collection programming for 2025 can be introduced within the coming months.
“All of the ACC occasions provide 34 days of racing and over $500K in complete prize cash, with a further purse on the finish of the season to the highest males’s and girls’s Sequence, Dash, and Staff leaders,” Weiss added.
The ACC started with 10 occasions spanning the US in 2022, which started in April with two races within the southeast. Two unique races, Athens Orthopedic Clinic Twilight in Georgia and Sunny King Criterium in Alabama, have moved to the USA Crits collection, which is anticipated to announce a full schedule within the coming weeks.
The ACC continues to incorporate particular person races which can be a part of long-standing, multi-day highway race collection, together with ToAD, the biggest, aggressive highway biking collection within the US with 11 consecutive days of racing in southeast Wisconsin, and Chicago Grit, 10 days of criteriums within the Chicago, Illinois space that have been previously referred to as Intelligentsia Cup.
American Criterium Cup calendar 2025
- Friday, June 6 – Saint Francis Tulsa Powerful, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Saturday, June 14 – The Salt Lake Metropolis Criterium, Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah
- Saturday, June 28 – Kwik Journey Tour of America’s Dairyland, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Friday, July 11 – IU Well being Momentum Indy, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Saturday, July 19 – Bailey Glasser Boise Twilight Criterium, Boise Idaho
- Sunday, July 27 – Chicago Grit, Chicago, Illinois
- Saturday, August 2 – Audi Denver Littleton Twilight Criterium, Denver, Colorado
- Sunday, August 31 – Bommarito Audi West County Gateway Cup, St. Louis, Missouri
