Two events marked the USA Cycling National Racing Calendar last week, the five-stage Cascade Cycling Classic in Bend, Ore. and the Chicago Criterium. Evie Stevens and Oscar Sevilla grabbed overall wins at Cascade while Brad Huff sprinted to victory in downtown Chicago. With his fourth-place finish at Cascade Rory Sutherland jumped into the overall NRC lead. The Tour of Elk Grove, July 31-Aug. 2 will mark the 21st of 26th 2009 NRC events.

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Four more Stars-and-Stripes jerseys were awarded on Thursday in Bend, Ore. as the road racing portion of the USA Cycling Junior, U23, and Elite Road National Championships concluded. Meredith Miller claimed her very first national title in the elite women’s contest after eleven years of racing while Amy Dombroski crossed the line in fourth to take the U23 women’s crown. Mike Olheiser sprinted to the win in the elite men’s race and Max Durtschi soloed over the line for the national titlei n the junior men’s 17-18 event.

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The fifth race on the USA Cycling Pro Mountain Bike Cross Country Tour presented by Sho-Air will go off at Vermont’s Mount Snow Resort on August 8. Heading into the penultimate event on the top, national-level cross country mountain bike calendar, Max Plaxton and recently crowned national champion Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski are neck-and-neck atop the men’s Pro XCT standings, while Catherine Pendrel and Georgia Gould sit atop the women’s side.

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Six Stars-and-Stripes jerseys were awarded in Bend on Tuesday as action got underway at the 2009 USA Cycling Junior, U23, Elite andamp; Paralympic Road National Championships. The opening day schedule was a full one with junior cyclists in the 10-12, 13-14, and 15-16 age categories all toeing the line to duke it out for national titles on a rolling road race course that started at Bendandrsquo;s Summit High School.

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Over 700 riders are set to converge on the cycling-friendly community of Bend, Ore. next week as the USA Cycling Junior, U23, Elite, and Paralympic Road National Championships come to town July 28 - Aug. 2. Twenty-two national titles will be on the line as participants compete for Stars-and-Stripes jerseys in the criterium, time trial, and road race events over the six-day period. Headlining the event will be the elite women’s and U23 men’s races.

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Last week USA Cycling Junior National Team riders finished first and second in the overall at the Tour de landquot;Abitibi in Canada last week, while Americans took 12 of 26 world titles at the junior/amateur level at the UCI BMX World Championships in Adeliade, Australia. Three of six USA Cycling supported all-star riders placed in top 10 of the junior cross country contest at UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Bromont last weekend.

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The United States collected three medals in the elite events at the 2009 UCI BMX World Championships in Adelaide, Australia on Saturday with Olympic bronze medalist Donny Robinson riding to a world title in the elite men’s event. Fellow American and Olympic silver medalist Mike Day was second. In the elite women’s event, Arielle Martin scored a bronze medal for Team USA.

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Attention all road race promoters: Bid applications for the 2010 USA Cycling National Racing Calendar (NRC) are now available for download from the USA Cycling website. Applications are due to USA Cycling by 4:30 p.m. MDT, August 28, 2009, and the final NRC calendar will be announced by the first week of OCtober. Those event promoters whose races are selected for the 2010 NRC will be invited to the second annual NRC promoters meeting which will be held in Colorado Springs in early November.

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Team USA continued its dominance of the 2009 UCI BMX World Championships in Australia, claiming five of the nine challenge class world titles up for grabs on day two at the Adelaide Showgrounds. Three of the gold medals were earned by USA Cycling’s Junior Development Program athletes: Rusty Nesgiv, Paul Wassenaar, and Brooke Crain. The other two American golds came from Kory Cook and Tommy Opincar. World championship racing will continue on Saturday as the elite riders take center stage.

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Americans currently hold the top three spots in the general classification of the Tour de l’Abitibi, a junior stage race in Canada often referred to as a Tour de France for juniors. The event welcomes the best junior cyclists in the world, and after three of its seven stages, U.S. National team riders Andrew Barker and Charlie Avis are first and second overall, and fellow American Anders Newbury is third in the 126-rider field.

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