USA Biking introduced a deep workforce of contenders to race for the rainbow bands on the UCI Highway World Championships in Zurich this month, headlined by Olympic double gold medalist Kristen Faulkner and Dwars door Vlaanderen winner Matteo Jorgenson.
Worlds begin on September 22 with the elite males’s and ladies’s particular person time trials. Faulkner opted to not compete within the time trial and can solely race the elite ladies’s street race on September 28.
Defending world champion and Olympic bronze medalist Chloé Dygert will line up for the time trial alongside former champion Amber Neben, Ruth Edwards and Emily Ehrlich.
Brandon McNulty and Magnus Sheffield will sort out the boys’s particular person time trial.
Within the under-23 and junior classes, the US workforce have a number of contenders, most notably in Ashlin Barry, son of former professionals Dede and Michael Barry within the junior males’s discipline, whereas AJ August and Artem Shmidt lead the cost within the under-23 males’s time trial.
The elite males’s and ladies’s street races shut out the week of racing in Zurich. Faulkner, Dygert, Edwards and Ehrlich are joined by Lauren Stephens and Heidi Franz on the roster.
Quinn Simmons makes his return to racing for the World Championships, racing alongside Jorgenson, Riley Sheehan, McNulty, Sean Quinn, Neilson Powless, Kevin Vermaerke and Sheffield within the closing occasion, the elite males’s street race.
USA Biking for the 2024 UCI Highway World Championships
Elite Ladies
- Chloe Dygert (Canyon-SRAM) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Emily Ehrlich (Twenty 24) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Well being) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Amber Neben – Time Trial
- Kristen Faulkner (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) – Highway Race
- Heidi Franz (Lifeplus-Wahoo) – Highway Race
- Lauren Stephens (Cynisca) – Highway Race
Elite Males
- Brandon McNulty (UAE Workforce Emirates) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease A Bike) – Highway Race
- Riley Sheehan (Israel-Premier Tech) – Highway Race
- Sean Quinn (EF Schooling-EasyPost) – Highway Race
- Neilson Powless (EF Schooling-EasyPost) – Highway Race
- Kevin Vermaerke (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) – Highway Race
- Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) – Highway Race
U23 Males
- AJ August (Ineos Grenadiers) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Gavin Hlady (Aevolo Biking Workforce) – Highway Race
- Cole Kessler (Lidl-Trek) – Highway Race
- Artem Shmidt (Hagens Berman Jayco) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Colby Simmons (Visma-Lease a Bike Growth) – Highway Race
Junior Ladies
- Lidia Cusack (Dcdevo Racing Academy) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Helena Jones (Workforce Twenty24) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Vida Lopez de San Roman (Bear Nationwide Workforce) – Highway Race
- Alyssa Sarkisov (Dcdevo Racing Academy) – Highway Race
Junior Males
- Grey Barnett (EF Schooling-ONTO) – Highway Race
- Ashlin Barry (EF Schooling-ONTO) – Highway Race, Time Trial
- Peyton Burckel (EF Schooling-ONTO) – Highway Race
- Braden Reitz (Decathlon AG2R la Mondiale Newgen) – Highway Race
- Noah Streif (EF Schooling-ONTO) – Highway Race
