Aguascalientes, Mexico (May 13, 2010) — Following the U.S. team’s successful showing during the road race portion of the Pan American Road and Track Championships, American riders broke two world records and earned an additional five medals in the track competitions last week.Â
Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif./American Track Foundation) won continental titles in the individual pursuit and the omnium, and then joined Dotsie Bausch (Irvine, Calif./ATF Empire Coaching Systems) and Lauren Tamayo (Asheville, N.C./Peanut Butter & Co TWENTY 12) to earn another continental title in the women’s team pursuit. Additionally, Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Cedar Springs, Mich./Colavita-Baci p/b Cooking Light)  won the gold medal in the women’s points race while Cody O’Reilly (Santa Barbara, Calif./Bissell)  rode to a silver medal in the men’s scratch race … Details
National Championships in Madison, Wisconsin, where Marian University won its first Division I Road National Championships, and Whitman College repeated its victory from the previous year in Division II.
This, the fourth and final USA Cycling Collegiate National Championship completed the 2009-10 collegiate cycling season and secured Fort Lewis College’s place atop the national collegiate team Division I rankings and Mesa State College’s spot ahead of all other Division II schools. Both of those teams finished in the top five of their respective divisions at Road Nationals to seal the overall season victory.Â
Mesa State College was the only Division II team to earn points at all four of USA Cycling’s Collegiate National Championships: Track, Mountain Bike, Cyclocross, and Road. They certainly reaped the benefits of that consistency in the form of a 14 point margin over second place Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which earned points at only three of those competitions … Details
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Dotsie Bausch (Irvine, Calif./ATF Empire Coaching Systems), Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif./American Track Foundation) and Lauren Tamayo (Asheville, N.C./Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty 12) set an unofficial new world record in the three-kilometer team pursuit on their way to winning the gold medal in women’s event at the Panamerican Championships in Aguascalientes, Mexico on May 12. Their time of 3:19.569 is nearly two seconds faster than the previous record of 3:22.552 set by New Zealand’s Rushlee Buchanan, Lauren Ellis and Alison Shanks at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships on March 25th of this year. With that time, the newly formed American women’s team pursuit became the first to break the renowned 3:20 mark.Â
“There are fantastic team pursuit programs all around the world and its an honor to be considered one of the best …Â Details
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Madison, Wis.(May 7, 2010) – The nation’s best collegiate cyclists travelled to Madison, Wisconsin on Friday to contest a portion of the proposed 2016 Olympic road race course on the opening day of the 2010 USA Cycling Road Cycling National Championships. More than 350 riders braved the brutally wet and cold conditions – and over 6,000-feet of climbing around the course at Blue Mound State Park, 30 miles west of Madison … Details
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