New Zealand World Tour Riders lead way in USA
By Cycling New ZealandEight New Zealand riders will contest the professional Team Time Trial to kick-start the UCI Road Cycling World Championships in Virginia, USA today.
The championships, in the city of Richmond, will be held in USA for just the second time, nearly three decades since it was staged at Colorado Springs in 1986.
It is only the seventh time the event has ventured out of Europe since it began nearly a century ago.
The championships begin with the Team Time Trial for professional and trade teams, held for just the fifth time.
Sam Bewley will line-up with Orica-GreenEdge, one of only four teams to have won medals in the event. His fellow World Tour riders Greg Henderson and Jesse Sergent will turn out for Lotto-Soudal and Trek Factory respectively, while Dion Smith will compete for his Hincapie Racing team, before re-focussing for the under-23 road race later in the week.
Commonwealth Games champion Linda Villumsen and compatriot Rushlee Buchanan will line-up for a strong United Healthcare team in the women’s team time trial, with Jo Kiesanowski and Emily Collins in Team TIBCO.
Attention will turn to the championships proper starting with the time trials from Tuesday (NZ time) where Georgia Catterick (Blenheim) will compete in the junior women over 15km and James Oram (Axeon Cycling) in the under-23 men over 30kms.
The 15km loop is technical, running mostly through the inner city with some tight turns and a 300m climb near the finish.
The time trials for junior men and elite women are on Wednesday with elite men on Thursday before the action moves to the road races beginning on Saturday (NZ time).
Meanwhile Olympian Jaime Nielsen, the national time trial champion, has not recovered sufficiently from a shoulder injury to compete at the world championships, and has decided to return home to recover and prepare for the upcoming track programme.
James Oram in action at last year’s UCI Road Cycling World Championship time trial. Credit: Graham Watson.
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