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Andrew Strohmeyer (CXD Trek Bikes) gained his third consecutive US Cyclocross Series race this season, going solo at Rochester Cyclocross with 4 laps to go within the C1 contest.
Scott Funston (Cervelo Orange Living) 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 (Competitive 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 men’s junior XCO at UCI MTB World Championships.
Kerry Werner (Groove Auto Off Road Racing), who completed second on each days GO Cross final weekend, held off Marcis Shelton (Bear CX) for fifth.
The elite men’s area of 48 riders set off with the favourites at the entrance, Curtis White (Steve Tilford Foundation 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 Festival in Wisconsin.
By the beginning of the third circuit of the 3km course at Genesee Valley Park, Strohmeyer, Funston and White set the tempo at the entrance with Ortenblad dangling off the again.
The velocity, just like the temperatures, have been excessive and the chasers have been shortly 15 seconds off the tempo, the closest trio together with Henry Coote (Competitive Edge), Matteo Oppizzi (Elite Foundation Cycling) and Ben Frederick (Small Monsters Project). Marcis Shelton (Bear CX), who was third on the second day at GO Cross, rode in ninth, and Kerry Werner (Groove Off Road Racing) was in sixteenth.
At 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 manner as much as the previous US cyclocross champion.
Whatever rain had fallen from the elite ladies’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 have been joined by Coote and the trio chased, 20 seconds again. White dropped again to ninth place, letting Werner be a 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 niche of some seconds.
The course for the C1 occasion included 42 metres (139 ft) of vertical acquire on every cross, ridden on Saturday in a clockwise path to hit a lot of the punchy climbs early, from the Wall run-up to Double Trouble within the woods. The again half of the course featured large passing lanes and the Belgian staircase.
A brand new cobbled part earlier than the Wall was faraway from Saturday’s C1 elite races as a result of rider suggestions on pre-rides due to some broken rims and punctures. That part is about for use within the C2 races Sunday because the riders will cross on a slower uphill path.
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