Lauren De Crescenzo (LDC) took a third women’s title at The Mid South gravel race while Torbjørn Røed (Trek Driftless) won the elite men’s race in a six-rider sprint after 100 miles of racing on the red dirt of Oklahoma. In the nonbinary category, Li King took the victory over Rach McBride.
In a two-up battle just over seven minutes behind De Crescenzo, Jenna Rinehart crossed the line for second place, two seconds ahead of Caroline Wreszin, who took a podium spot for the second consecutive year. A pack of six contenders chased another seven minutes back, with Haley Smith winning the bunch sprint for fourth. De Crescenzo set a new best mark for women with a time of 4:47:42, 7:21 faster than 2023.
The elite men’s battle came down to a six-pack of riders who stayed together on the final single-track section of the course. Within 10 miles of the finish line, Røed and Griffin Easter created a gap, but it all came back together in the final three miles for a bunch sprint.
Easter missed the win by inches and settled for second behind Røed, who completed the ride in 4:26:54. John Borstelmann finished third, leaving Russell Finsterwald, Dylan Johnson and Peter Stetina just off the podium. Payson McElveen, the 2023 men’s winner, finished 13th.
Tyler Stites and Scott McGill take UCI wins in Greece
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Project Echelon Racing notched wins last week at a pair of UCI races in Greece. Tyler Stites took the sprint victory at the one-day GP Rhodes. He led the bunch sprint across the line after 186km, with teammate Scott McGill riding to seventh.
On the second day of racing at the 2.2-level Tour of Rhodes, McGill won his first race of the season, a 148km stage 1 from Rhodes to Maritsa, and later finished third on stage 3. Teammate Samuel Boardman took control of the mountain classification after stage 1, winning the KOM jersey for the four-day stage race. Stites finished seventh in the overall, while Brendan Rhim was eighth on GC.
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