USA Cycling announced the roster of 24 riders to represent the United States at the 2022 UCI Road World Championships in Wollongong, Australia, taking place September 18-25, 2022.
Seven women and five men make up the elite squad for the time trial and road races, the US women being one of five nations to qualify a full quota allocated for competition. Five men were selected for under-23 honours and there were a total of seven juniors – three men and four women – named to complete the lineup.
A trio of EF Education-TIBCO-SVB teammates will compete in the 164.3km elite road race from Helensburgh to Wollongong – road race national champion Emma Langley, Tour des Pyrénées winner Krista Doebel-Hickok and top-10 GC finisher in the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift Veronica Ewers. It is the first time Ewers and Langley have made appearances at Worlds.
Three other Women’s WorldTour riders include Kristen Faulkner (Team BikeExchange-Jayco), the mountains classification winner from the Giro d’Italia Donne, time trial national champion Leah Thomas (Movistar) and Coryn Labecki (Team Jumbo-Visma), who makes her eighth appearance at Worlds as an elite rider. The lone US domestic elite rider is Skylar Schneider (L39ION of Los Angeles), who makes her first appearance at Worlds competition since she won silver in the junior road race in 2016.
For the elite men on the 266.9km road race featured on the final day of the championships, Grand Tour veteran and two-time time trial national champion Lawson Craddock (Team BikeExchange-Jayco) leads the way along with three other rising WorldTour stars – Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates), Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost), and Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers). US road race champion Kyle Murphy (Human Powered Health) rounds out the elite team.
Last year in Belgium, Powless made the final group of select riders in the elite men’s race and finished fifth, while Rivera earned her second 10th-place finish in the elite women’s road race.
Joining Thomas and Craddock in the elite time trial events on the opening two days of competition, both races on the same 34.2km course in Wollongong, will be Faulkner for the women’s race and Sheffield for the men’s race. Thomas was 14th last year for elite women, while four-placed Amber Neben has transitioned to gravel racing this season. Craddock was the highest-place US rider in the elite men’s time trial last year in 18th position, while Sheffield, 19 years old last year,…
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