Shannon Koch (Kingdom Elite Racing) scored her second victory of USA CRITS whereas Marcos Mendez (CRCA/Basis) held off USA CRITS chief Lucas Bourgoyne (Workforce Cadence Cyclery p/b Encore Wire) for his first win of the collection on Saturday on the inaugural Aksarben Tirc p/b Go to Omaha race in Nebraska.
Jeydy Praderas (Kingdom Elite Racing) completed second and Elizabeth Harden (Workforce Flicker) went third on Saturday evening on the new midwest race as their groups fought for positions in USA CRITS, with only one race remaining.Â
The highest three ladies are separated by simply 34 factors after eight races. Aylena Quevedo (Kingdom Elite Racing) maintained a slim general lead within the USA CRITS ladies’s particular person standings with a prime 10 end and retained the chief’s jersey. She was 9 factors forward of Harden, and third-placed Koch was one other 25 factors again. Fourth-placed Ali LeCraw of Workforce Flicker is effectively off the tempo at 164 factors again.
Elite males’s podium at 2025 Aksarben Tirc criterium in downtown Omaha, the seventh spherical of males’s races in USA CRITS (Picture credit score: Adam Koble / USA CRITS)
Within the males’s race, Mendez got here into Omaha recent off a win at Conshy Basic in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. He scored huge factors for his CRCA/Basis crew with the victory forward of Bourgoyne and former USA CRITS general champion Danny Summerhill (L39ION of Los Angeles) on the rostrum in third.Â
The general standings for males have been dominated throughout the collection by Workforce Cadence Cyclery p/b Encore Wire duo Bourgoyne and Luke Fetzer, who stay within the prime positions one and two, respectively. Castaneda moved into third general after Omaha, bumping dow Michael Garrison (MGR p/b Velocity l Membership), who introduced on social media he would forgo the remaining USA CRITS calendar to concentrate on USPRO Highway Nationwide Championships. Athens winner Intelligent Martinez (CRCA/Basis) was fifth with one race to go.
The boys’s factors totals will embrace simply eight of the 9 races when the champions are decided on Could 24 on the USA CRTS Finals in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as their race at LaGrange Biking Basic on Could 3, cease six, was cancelled resulting from inclement climate. The ladies had been in a position to compete on Could 3 and a full nine-race level tabulation is anticipated to find out the collection winner at Winston-Salem Biking Basic.
Named for the Aksarben Village space which hosted the brand new two-kilometre course, the Aksarben Tirc p/b Go to Omaha criterium offered a singular five-corner course. The primary flip was on an out-and again path for a parade round a roundabout on Pine Road subsequent to the campus of College of Nebraska-Omaha. From there, riders returned previous the start-finish for a counter-clockwise loop with the extra typical set of 4 90-degree corners that dropped them again north on South 67th to the end line.
Shannon Koch (Kingdom Elite Racing) talks to USA CRITS announcer Chad Andrews about her victory at Aksarben Tirc in Omaha, Nebraska (Picture credit score: Adam Koble / USA CRITS)
The collection culminates in North Carolina on Saturday, Could 24, one evening following the elite criterium occasions at USA Biking Professional Highway Championships in Charleston, West Virginia, with the junior and under-23 criterium nationwide championships on Thursday, Could 22. The packed weekend additionally has Tour of Somerville in New Jersey on Could 26.Â
“In 2024 the Winston-Salem occasion moved again to Memorial Day the place it had been for a few years. Native scheduling conflicts stop a transfer to another date near that weekend. The closeness of Winston-Salem to Charleston [360 miles by car – Ed.] does permit for attending each, although not ultimate,” Gene Dixon, founding father of USA CRITS, informed Cyclingnews earlier this spring.
Marcos Mendez (centre) celebrates victory at 2025 Aksarben Tirc criterium together with his CRCA/Basis teammates (Picture credit score: Adam Koble / USA CRITS)
Outcomes – Aksarben Tirc p/b Go to Omaha
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Aksarben Tirc – Elite males prime 5
Pos.
Title
1
Marcos Mendez (CRCA/Basis)
2
Lucas Bourgoyne (Workforce Cadence Cyclery p/b Encore Wire)
3
Danny Summerhill (L39ION of Los Angeles)
4
Jamie Castraneda (Bikers Biking Workforce)
5
Noble Guyon (First Web Financial institution Biking)
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Aksarben Tirc – Elite ladies prime 5
Pos.
Title
1
Shannon Koch (Kingdom Elite Racing)
2
Jeydy Praderas (Kingdom Elite Racing)
3
Elizabeth Harden (Workforce Flicker)
4
Justin Thomas (Kingdom Elite Racing)
5
Luisa Parra (Bikers Biking Workforce)
Standings USA CRITS
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Elite males – via 7 of 8 occasions
Total
Title
Factors
1
Lucas Bourgoyne (Workforce Cadence Cyclery p/b Encore Wire)
1636
2
Luke Fetzer (Workforce Cadence Cyclery p/b Encore Wire)
