USA Biking named its staff for the 2023 UCI Gravel Global Championships with the 2 elite gravel nationwide champions topped in Gering, Nebraska – Lauren Stephens and Keegan Swenson – main a 23-strong staff.
The second one version of the Gravel Worlds is because of happen in Veneto, Italy, with the elite ladies racing on October 7 and the lads on October 8.
Swenson (Santa Cruz Bicycles-SRAM) has ruled the Lifestyles Time Grand Prix gravel collection this season, profitable all however the newest match, the Chequamegon MTB Competition, the place he got here 2d to Alexey Vermeulen (Jukebox-Shimano-Q+M).
Vermeulen additionally made the staff for the elite males’s race at the side of Brennan Wertz (Mosaic Cycles), who was once 3rd in Gering. Payson McElveen (Allied Cycle Works) and criterium champion Luke Lamperti (Trinity Racing) are different professional riders participating.
Zach Calton, Ian Kutzleb, Andy Lydic, Justin McQuerry, Tobin Ortenblad (Santa Cruz Bicycles-SRAM), Ethan Overson (Scuderia Pinarello), Artem Shmidt (Hagens Berman Axeon), David Van Orsdel whole the lads’s staff.
Stephens (EF Training-TIBCO-SVB), who completed fifteenth in the back of winner Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (France) on the first version of the UCI Gravel Global Championships, will likely be joined through remaining 12 months’s individuals Emily Newsom (Roxo Racing) and Sarah Sturm (Specialised).
The 2 podium finishers from nationals, Alexis Skarda (Santa Cruz Bicycles) and Crystal Anthony (Liv Racing Collective), at the side of Heidi Franz (DNA Professional Biking) can even head to Veneto. Morgan Aguirre, Katherine Sheridan, and Kyleigh Spearing spherical out the ladies’s staff.