Mattia De Marchi, Tsgabu Grmay, Courtney Sherwell, Annabel Fisher debut with Life Time Grand Prix in 2025

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The principle rosters for the invitation-only 2025 Life Time Grand Prix had been revealed at present, with an intensive number of new worldwide challengers making the minimize to unseat three-time males’s sequence champion Keegan Swenson and two-time ladies’s winner Sofia Gomez Villafane.

Headliners on the boys’s facet are three-time The Traka 360 winner Mattia De Marchi (Italy) and former WorldTour street professionals Lawrence Naesen (Belgium), Tsgabu Grmay (Ethiopia) and Simon Pellaud (Switzerland).

Drawing from tons of of candidates representing 23 international locations, the preliminary choice for 2025 contains 22 ladies and 22 males who will compete within the six-race, off-road race sequence with a season-ending prize purse of $280,000 shared among the many prime 10 in every division. An extra three ladies and three males can be added as wildcard athletes following outcomes from Unbound Gravel 200 on Could 31, 2025.

Stephens has been the highest US ladies’s finisher in any respect three editions of the UCI Gravel World Championships together with sixth in 2023. Subsequent yr’s world championships for gravel can be in Good, France on October 18-19. The Life Time Grand Prix concludes that very same weekend in Bentonville, Arkansas with Huge Sugar Gravel, a required occasion for riders contending within the general standings.

Inside the utility course of, athletes had been requested in the event that they wish to be a part of a wildcard pool if not chosen. These candidates can be thought of for the ultimate three spots in every division on the finish of Could, with their outcomes from Sea Otter Basic Gravel and Unbound Gravel 200 considered. Moreover, ought to an athlete throughout the initially chosen 44 athletes drop out of the sequence between now and Unbound Gravel, his or her spot can be backfilled by a wildcard athlete.