Pietermartizburg, South Africa (July 31, 2010) – The Elite and Junior Championship Class competitions are the highlight of the UCI BMX World Championships and for what may have been the first time for the Americans, on Saturday it  was all about the ladies. Nineteen-year-old Alise Post (Saint Cloud, Minn./Redline Bicycles) earned the bronze medal in the elite women’s contest and Brooke Crain (Visalia, Calif./Clayborn-Monster Energy) just missed the junior women’s world title finishing second.Â
In the elite women’s final at the Royal Showgrounds in Pietermartizburg, South Africa, Great Britain’s Shanaze Reade earned her third BMX World Championship medal this time in the form of gold jumping out front from the gun in the afternoon’s final. New Zealand’s Sarah Walker claimed the silver and Post the bronze medal with neither able to close the gap on the fast-starting Reade. Last year’s World Cup series winner Arielle Martin (Pleasant Grove, Utah/Intense-Monster Energy) finished eighth in the final after an early-race tangle … Details
The USA Cycling Professional Mountain Bike Gravity Tour (Pro GRT) wrapped up over the weekend with Bryn Atkinson (Ferndale, Wash./Transition Racing) and Jill Kintner (Seattle, Wash./Transition Racing) claiming the overall wins in the five-race series. The best of the best in gravity racing converged on the Whiteface Mountain Bike Park in Lake Placid, New York on Sunday for the final where Justin Leov (NZL) and Tracy Moseley (GBR/Trek World Racing) claimed the wins in the pro men’s and women’s contests.
Leov posted a time of 7:44.39 over the five-kilometer downhill time test to take the win in the men’s event while Andrew Neethling (RSA/Trek World Racing) grabbed second place with a time of 7:55.51. Though not present in Lake Placid, Bryn Atkinson had  … Details