Andrew Strohmeyer (CXD Trek Bikes) gained his third consecutive US Cyclocross Sequence race this season, going solo at Rochester Cyclocross with 4 laps to go within the C1 contest.
Scott Funston (Cervelo Orange Dwelling) completed second, 35 seconds again, and Tobin Ortenblad (Santa Cruz SRAM htSQD) took third, one other 5 seconds off the tempo.
The shock efficiency got here from 18-year-old Henry Coote (Aggressive Edge), a rising star on the US mountain biking scene, who completed fourth. The 18-year-old fractured a bone in his hand two months in the past and returned to racing to complete ninth within the males’s junior XCO at UCI MTB World Championships.
Kerry Werner (Groove Auto Off Highway Racing), who completed second on each days GO Cross final weekend, held off Marcis Shelton (Bear CX) for fifth.
The elite males’s discipline of 48 riders set off with the favourites on the entrance, Curtis White (Steve Tilford Basis Racing) taking cost with Funston, Strohmeyer and Ortenblad, who missed the opening spherical of USCX in Virginia as he completed sixth within the Life Time Grand Prix’s Chequamegon MTB Pageant in Wisconsin.
By the beginning of the third circuit of the 3km course at Genesee Valley Park, Strohmeyer, Funston and White set the tempo on the entrance with Ortenblad dangling off the again.
The pace, just like the temperatures, had been excessive and the chasers had been shortly 15 seconds off the tempo, the closest trio together with Henry Coote (Aggressive Edge), Matteo Oppizzi (Elite Basis Biking) and Ben Frederick (Small Monsters Mission). Marcis Shelton (Bear CX), who was third on the second day at GO Cross, rode in ninth, and Kerry Werner (Groove Off Highway Racing) was in sixteenth.
On the mid-point of the race, Strohmeyer, Funston and Ortenblad labored collectively to pound out a searing tempo. Coote moved into solo fourth, 13 seconds again, whereas White was one other 15 seconds down in fifth, Werner making an attempt to work his method as much as the previous US cyclocross champion.
No matter rain had fallen from the elite girls’s occasion the hour earlier than was lengthy gone and on the beginning of lap 6 Strohmeyer kicked up the mud alone with a solo assault. Funston and Ortenblad had been joined by Coote and the trio chased, 20 seconds again. White dropped again to ninth place, letting Werner be part of Tyler Clark (Hockley Valley Resort Armada) to battle for fifth place.
With Strohmeyer out of sight and headed to his third victory in USCX, Funston tried to speed up away from Ortenblad on the penultimate lap. Coote remained the one different rider with an opportunity at a podium spot, however he couldn’t get onto Ortenblad’s wheel, holding a spot of some seconds.
The course for the C1 occasion included 42 metres (139 ft) of vertical achieve on every go, ridden on Saturday in a clockwise path to hit a lot of the punchy climbs early, from the Wall run-up to Double Hassle within the woods. The again half of the course featured huge passing lanes and the Belgian staircase.
A brand new cobbled part earlier than the Wall was faraway from Saturday’s C1 elite races on account of rider suggestions on pre-rides due to a couple broken rims and punctures. That part is ready for use within the C2 races Sunday because the riders will go on a slower uphill path.
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