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Caroline Mani and Kerry Werner, teammates for Groove Auto Off Highway Racing, gained the elite C2 races on the opening day of the Nash Sprint cyclocross doubleheader in Hampton, Georgia.
Mani dominated the elite girls’s contest on a dry, sunny Saturday afternoon on a quick, rolling 3.37km course at Nash Farm Park, situated south of Atlanta close to the Atlanta Motor Speedway. Lidia Cusack (CXD Trek Bikes) took second, 1:07 again, whereas Anna Dorovskikh (Donovan Racing p/b AES) was one other 33 seconds again in third.
Cusack, simply 17 years previous, rode to her first elite girls’s UCI cyclocross podium. The Maryland native gained the junior girls’s particular person time trial title in Charleston, West Virginia earlier this 12 months.
For Dorvoskikh, she added a second profession UCI podium to the one she earned at Main Taylor Cross Cup in October.
The reigning single pace champion at MTB and cyclocross nationals, Werner was in a position to distance the duo of Scott Funston (Cervelo Orange Dwelling) and Caleb Swartz (ENVE-Ahead Endurance) for the victory. Funston took second, 15 seconds again, with Swartz one other 4 seconds behind in third.
Werner returned to cyclocross motion after shifting to his mountain bike for a 3rd place at Ice Man Cometh in Michigan two weeks in the past. In early October, he completed second general within the Trek USCX Cyclocross Sequence when he was on the rostrum twice at Trek CX Cup in Wisconsin.
The Georgia cyclocross race, produced for a sixth 12 months by East Level Monitor Membership, attracted plenty of riders from L39ION of Los Angeles who’re primarily based on the East coast of the US, together with Alexis Magner, Ty Magner and Robin Carpenter. Alexis Magner, who strikes to Cynisca Biking in 2025, completed eighth within the elite girls’s contest. Carpenter completed sixth within the elite males’s race, with Ty Magner taking ninth.
“Such a distinct effort from the highway, however a blast nonetheless,” Ty Magner posted to Instagram, noting he would additionally compete in Hendersonville, North Carolina subsequent weekend at North Carolina Grand Prix.
Nash Sprint and NC Grand Prix are the ultimate stops for the 2024 USA Biking Cyclocross Nationwide Sequence.
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