Marlies Mejias (Virginia’s Blue Ridge Twenty24) wins 2024 Momentum Indy on Mass Avenue ahead of Paola Muñoz and Skylar Schneider(Image credit score rating: American Criterium Cup / @joe.vond)
Elite girls’s podium after 2024 Momentum Indy Mass Ave Crit (L to R): second-placed Paola Muñoz, winner Marlies Mejias Garcia and third-placed Skylar Schneider(Image credit score rating: American Criterium Cup/ @joe.vond)
Alfredo Rodriguez (REIGN Storm Racing) wins 2024 Momentum Indy Mass Ave Crit ahead of teammate Jordan Parra(Image credit score rating: American Criterium Cup/ @joe.vond)
Marlies Mejias Garcia (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) gained the elite girls’s race on the IU Nicely being Momentum Indy criterium this earlier weekend, whereas REIGN Storm Racing went one-two with winner Alfredo Rodriguez and runner-up Jordan Parra.
Every Friday evening time races beneath the lights in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana received right here all the best way all the way down to bunch finishes, with components on the highway for the fifth of eight stops on the American Criterium Cup assortment.
Mejias crossed the highway quite a lot of bike lengths ahead of second-placed Paola Muñoz (Goldman Sachs ETFs Racing). The women’s peloton stayed collectively for nearly all the 70-minute race, solely Skylar Schneider (Miami Blazers) making an unlimited assault to reel throughout the mid-race ACC sprint components. She then stayed close to the doorway and accomplished in third place, incomes her fifth podium throughout the American Criterium Cup assortment.
Skylar Schneider retained the lead throughout the explicit individual standings for women, two DNA Skilled Biking riders – Rylee McMullen second 23 components once more and Makayla Macpherson third 9 additional components once more. McMullen has a one-point lead over Schneider throughout the sprint rivals.
“It was very thrilling and I wanted to be very affected individual,” Mejias talked about after the race. “It is usually a very technical race so that you should be on the doorway. The plan was to solely spend vitality on the important thing moments of the race.”
Remaining yr’s winner Kendall Ryan (L39ION of Los Angeles) was not on the start line, nevertheless reigning US criterium champion Coryn Labecki (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) took half in solely her second ACC race this season and accomplished one spot off the podium in fourth.
The boys’s race on the Mass Ave crit course was focused on the solo breakaway of Josh Burnett (Mitoq-NZ Biking Problem), to see if he might hold away after going clear throughout the first 10 minutes on the twisty,‘bow-tie-shaped course. REIGN Storm went into essential chase mode with 10 laps to go and caught Burnett, who at one time had a 40-second margin, on the bell lap.
“We had been truly calm the complete race,” Rodriguez talked about after the race. “We would have liked to place the complete group on the doorway for the chase to get the person once more. [Burnett] was truly sturdy, we had been truly pushing.”
Summerhill, who extended his sprint classification lead, led out his teammates for the one-two finish. It was the fourth victory in 5 races for REIGN Storm, the trio on the Indy podium holding sturdy throughout the males’s whole standings – Parra first with 56 components, Rodiguez second at 10 components once more and Summerhill third one different 4 components once more.
The following installment of the ACC takes place July 27 on the twelfth annual Northwestern Medication Lake Bluff Criterium exterior Chicago, Illinois. It’s part of the 10-day Chicago Grit assortment of criterium races, beforehand branded as Intelligentsia Cup.
Outcomes
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Prime 10 elite girls
Pos.
Rider (Workforce)
1
Marlies Mejias Garcia (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24)
2
Paola Muñoz (Goldman Sachs ETFs Racing)
3
Skylar Schneider (Miami Blazers)
4
Coryn Labecki (EF-Oatly-Cannondale)
5
Rylee McMullen (DNA Skilled Biking)
6
Makayla Macpherson (DNA Skilled Biking)
7
Regina Doty (LA Sweat Racing)
8
Heidy Praderas (Kingdom Elite Racing)
9
Sofia Arreola (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24)
10
Ashley Beimert (Coalition Biking)
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Prime 10 elite males
Pos.
Rider (Workforce)
1
Alfredo Rodriguez (REIGN Storm Racing)
2
Jordan Parra (REIGN Storm Racing)
3
Ben Oliver (Above and Previous Most cancers Biking p/b Bike World)
4
Clever Martínez (Rockland Enchancment Workforce)
5
Wolfgang Brandl (Maloja Pushbikers)
6
Danny Summerhill (REIGN Storm Racing)
7
Kyle Tiesler
8
Lucas Bourgoyne (Austin Outlaws)
9
Sebastian Cano (Kingdom Elite Racing)
10
Riley Wrightsman (First Internet Monetary establishment Biking)
