The US Cyclocross Collection, USCX, will add a pair of occasions at Trek CX Cup to the eight-race lineup this fall, and organisers confirmed Trek Bicycle because the title sponsor. For the primary time in 4 years, the set of 4 occasions, now below the title Trek USCX, might be compacted throughout consecutive weekends, culminating with a brand new finale on October 5-6, 2024, in Waterloo, Wisconsin.
Three occasions within the lineup have been staples of USCX for the reason that inaugural 12 months in 2021, the opener set once more at GO Cross in Roanoke, Virginia, on September 14-15. Rochester Cyclocross follows in upstate New York on September 21-22 then Allure Metropolis Cross in Baltimore, Maryland on September 28-29.
“I’m amped that Waterloo might be our final cease on the sequence as our remaining race, and really appreciative that the Trek model is attaching its title to USCX,” mentioned Scott Web page, sequence director and co-owner of Full Moon Vista, which operates Rochester Cyclocross.
Trek CX Cup had been a part of a weekend centred round a UCI Cyclocross World Cup occasion, however Waterloo was not on the lately introduced calendar for the 2024-2025 World Cup sequence. The Trek USCX remaining weekend might be themed “Battle among the many Cattle.”
Final 12 months there was a four-week break between Allure Metropolis and the ultimate spherical at Actually Rad Competition of Cyclocross in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Organisers mentioned they hoped the brand new format of consecutive weekends would “entice extra European athletes to attend the sequence”. It would additionally enable North American riders to finish the sequence in the event that they plan to compete in Europe, the World Cup schedule starting in Antwerp, Belgium on November 24.
Belgian rider Vincent Baestaens (Spits CX), for example, had led the boys’s standings in every of the earlier three years earlier than travelling again to Europe and thus relenting the highest spot. He completed third general the primary two years and second to males’s winner Curtis White (Steve Tilford Basis Racing) final season.
Web page confirmed to Cyclingnews that the Trek USCX will once more present a complete $15,000 prize purse for elite races, cut up evenly between women and men. All of the occasions will function UCI-registered races for elite riders, C1 on Saturdays and C2 on Sundays, plus novice occasions.
Final 12 months, White received the USCX males’s title for a second 12 months. Maghalie Rochette (Canyon Collective) swept all eight occasions to seal the ladies’s USCX title.
Trek USCX 2024 schedule
- September 14-15 – GO Cross, Roanoke, Virginia
- September 21-22 – Rochester Cyclocross, Rochester, New York
- September 28-29 – Allure Metropolis, Baltimore, Maryland
- October 5-6 – Trek CX Cup, Waterloo, Wisconsin
