The 2009 USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships will take place September 30 andndash; October 4 at the Home Depot Center Velodrome in Carson, Calif. on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills. The USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships are the National Championships for the sport and will feature more than 300 elite cyclists from across the United States andndash; including rising stars, as well as 2012 Olympic hopefuls.

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Former USA Cycling Women’s Development Team rider Kristin Armstrong rode into retirement by earning a second world title in the time trial at the 2009 UCI Road World Championships, and the next generation of world-class American cyclists will make their way to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs next month for a National Talent Identification Camp.

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The 2009 UCI Road World Championships wrapped up on Sunday with Australiaandrsquo;s Cadel Evans winning the menandrsquo;s road race. Twenty-four-year-old Craig Lewis was the top U.S. finisher coming in 59th in the grueling seven-hour affair. After a pair of near misses with fourth-place-finishes in the womenandrsquo;s road race and menandrsquo;s time trial, the U.S. team leaves the 2009 UCI Road World Championships with one gold medal, a blistering final ride by Olympic champion Kristin Armstrong in the time trial.

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The 2009 USA Cycling Collegiate Track National Championships are officially in the books as competition wrapped up on Saturday at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in T-town. Marian College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) both succeeded in defending their overall team omniums in Divisions I and II while Colleen Hayduk and David Williams claimed the women’s and men’s individual omniums.

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The 2009 UCI Road World Championships continued on Saturday with Kristin Armstrong just missing the podium, finishing fourth in her final race before retirement. The Olympic gold medalist, Armstrong, was part of the winning four-woman group that was able to get away from a larger group on the final climb of the elite womenandrsquo;s road race. Wednesdayandrsquo;s time trial gold medalist, Armstrong just missed becoming the first American to ever win world championship medal in both the time trial and the road race. Peter Stetina lead the U.S. U23 menandrsquo;s squad, finishing 19th in the 124-kilometer contest.

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Four more national titles were awarded on Friday as the 2009 USA Cycling Collegiate Track National Championships continued in T-town. Marian College really showed its strength on day two, winning both team titles up for grabs - the Women’s Team Pursuit and the Coed Team Sprint. In the individual events, Colleen Hayduk and David Espinoza both took their second national titles in as many days, Hayduk in the Women’s Points Race and Espinoza in the Men’s Sprint.

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Collegiate cycling season officially opened on Thursday as the 2009 USA Cycling Collegiate Track National Championships got underway at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Trexlertown, Pa. Four individual national titles were awarded as collegiate teams began their quests for the overall team omniums which will be awarded to the top teams in each division on Saturday.

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Tom Zirbel posted the fourth fastest time in the elite men’s time trial on day two of the 2009 UCI Road World Championships. The silver medalist from last month’s USA Cycling Professional Time Trial Championships, Zirbel was in the second wave of riders to contest the 49.8-kilometers. On a course that caused riders’ times to b e significantly spread out, his time of 1:00.41 kept him in the hot seat until the fifth and final wave went out.

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The 2009 UCI Road World Championships started off with a bang for the United States with Kristin Armstonrg earning her second world title in the women’s time trial on Wednesday. Armstrong’s time trial gold gave the United States its third world championships in the event in the last four years. Defending world champion Amber Neben finished sixth while Jessica Phillips was 14th. Tejay Van Garderen wast he top American in the U23 men’s contest in 13th.

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USA Cycling and SKINS jointly announced today the upgrade of their partnership agreement to equip the athletes of USA Cycling. Beginning in February 2010, SKINS will provide its full range of competitive cycling apparel to USAS Cycling athletes across the disciplines of road, track, mountain, and cyclo-cross. The three-year agreement will remain in place through the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.

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