USA Worlds Teams

by steph- on Sep 14, 2009 8:09 PM EDT Comment 44 comments

Elite Men
Tom Danielson (Durango, Colo./Garmin-Slipstream)– Road Race and Time Trial
Tyler Farrar (Wenatchee, Wash./Garmin-Slipstream) – Road Race
Brent Bookwalter (Lookout Mountain, Ga./BMC Racing Team) – Road Race
Jeff Louder (Salt Lake City, Utah/BMC) – Road Race
Craig Lewis (Greenville, S.C./Columbia-High Road)– Road Race
Andrew Bajadali (Boulder, Colo./Kelly Benefit Strategies)– Road Race
Jason McCartney (Coralville, Iowa/Team Saxo Bank)– Road Race
Tim Duggan (Boulder, Colo./Garmin-Slipstream)– Road Race
Tom Peterson (North Bend, Wash./Garmnin-Slipstream)– Road Race
Tom Zirbel (Boulder, Colo./Bissell) – Time Trial

Elite Women
Kristin Armstrong (Boise, Idaho/Cervelo-Lifeforce) – Time Trial and Road Race
Amber Neben (Irvine, Calif./ Equipe Nürnberger) – Time Trial and Road Race
Kimberly Anderson (Santa Barbara, Calif./Columbia-High Road) – Road Race
Mara Abbott (Boulder, Colo./Columbia HTC) – Road Race
Meredith Miller (Fort Collins, Colo./Team TIBCO) – Road Race
Evelyn Stevens (New York, N.Y.) – Road Race
Jessica Phillips (Aspen, Colo./Team Lip Smackers) – Time Trial

U23 Men
Peter Stetina (Boulder, Colo./Garmin-Felt-Holowesko) – Road Race and Time Trial
Tejay Vangarderen (Superior, Colo./Rabobank Continental Team) – Road Race and Time Trial
Kirk Carlsen (Boulder, Colo./Garmin-Felt-Holowesko) – Road Race
Chris Barton (Ojai, Calif./BMC) – Road Race
Alex Howes (Boulder, Colo./Garmin-Felt-Holowesko) – Road Race

Representing the U.S. in both the elite men’s road race and time trial will be Tom Danielson (Durango, Colo./Garmin-Slipstream). In the time trial, Danielson will be joined by Tom Zirbel (Boulder, Colo./Bissell), the silver medalist from this month’s USA Cycling Professional Time Trial Championships.

Complementing Danielson on the road will be eight teammates including Tyler Farrar (Wenatchee, Wash./Garmin-Slipstream), who recently won a stage of the Vuelta a Espana and three stages in the Eneco Tour of Belgium, and Brent Bookwalter (Lookout Mountain, Ga./BMC Racing Team,) who was fourth in this month’s USA Cycling Professional Road Race Championships. The squad will also be comprised of Jeff Louder (Salt Lake City, Utah/BMC), Craig Lewis (Greenville, S.C./Columbia High-Road), Andrew Bajadali (Boulder, Colo./Kelly Benefits Strategies), Jason McCartney (Coralville, Iowa/Team Saxo Bank), Tim Duggan (Boulder, Colo./Garmin-Slipstream), and Tom Peterson (North Bend, Wash./Garmin-Slipstream).

Leading the women’s team for 2009 will be defending time trial world champion, Amber Neben (Irvine, Calif.), and Olympic gold medalist and three-time time trial world championship medalist (2005-2007), Kristin Armstrong (Boise, Idaho). Both women received automatic nominations to race the time trial and the road race based on their top-25 UCI rankings.

The pair will be joined in the time trial by Jessica Phillips (Aspen, Colo./Team Lip Smackers), who received an automatic nomination to race the clock with her win in the USA Cycling Elite Time Trial National Championship earlier this summer.

Neben and Armstrong will be complemented on the road race squad by four additional teammates. Kimberly Anderson (Santa Barbara, Calif./Columbia-High Road) received an automatic nomination by means of her overall win this summer in the UCI 2.1 La Route de France while Meredith Miller (Fort Collins, Colo./Team TIBCO) automatically qualified with her win in the elite women’s road race at the USA Cycling Road National Championships. The six-woman road race squad will be rounded out by two discretionary nominees – Evelyn Stevens (New York, N.Y.) and Mara Abbott (Boulder, Colo./Columbia HTC). Stevens won a stage of La Route de France this summer and finished right behind Anderson in second overall while Abbott rode to second-place overall in the UCI 2.1 Giro Donne

USA Cycling announces complete for Road World Championships

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Zabriskie???

Must be a mistake.

by aavf on Sep 14, 2009 8:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

U23 team

should be very fun to watch!

And this is Kristin Armstrong’s last race, right?

by gavia on Sep 14, 2009 8:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah it is her last race...at least it should be. The U23 team should have a very very good shot at getting a podium

if not the win.

I’m just curious at what happened to Zabriskie.

by Vlaanderen90 on Sep 14, 2009 9:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

DZ said in an interview on tlast night's Versus Tour of Missouri coverage that yesterday was

his last race of the year.

by ZoeRochelle on Sep 14, 2009 9:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's a shame!

"If I were World Road Race Champion, I would wear black shorts. That probably has more to do with me being on the wiser side of 30 and understanding better that the decisions I make now never really go away. White shorts would not be something I'd be proud of...." - David Millar, in Rouleur.

by Albertina on Sep 15, 2009 4:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

This will be Armstrong's last race...

…she is retiring but will remain active in the sport. She will join Nicola Cranmer of Proman in working with the young developmental squad. This is very good news for our young women.

by steph- on Sep 15, 2009 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Evie Stevens!

very exciting for this relative newcommer. she is full of surprises and a real darkhorse contender on such a selective course

We came to get down, so jump around!

by MarginWalker on Sep 14, 2009 9:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

"Relative newcomer" indeed!

I heard her first road race was 15 months ago.

"It's just a bike race" - Frank Schleck

by Pendleton on Sep 14, 2009 9:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yea I wouldn't say "relative"

This girl is wicked impressive. In fact, the women’s team is the only thing to get excited about if you’re rooting for results for the USA.

No horn, watch for finger.

by sminer on Sep 15, 2009 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh and the U23 Men have a couple real contenders to watch.

No horn, watch for finger.

by sminer on Sep 15, 2009 9:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

U23's should be fun, for sure

That race is always crazy fun, anyway, no matter who you’re rooting for.

by gavia on Sep 16, 2009 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Evie Stevens has been amazing....

She guest rode with Webcor at Cascades….and was hoping that she would remain there to work with Karen Brems and Christine Thorburn but….we saw her on Columbia’s 2010 roster. Good move by Columbia….she is gonna get even better!

by steph- on Sep 15, 2009 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

If you want a real "dark horse"

then watch out for Mara Abbott who was the only one who could keep up with Emma Pooley’s attack on Monte Nerone in this year’s Giro (and matched her, fall for fall, on the way down). It wouldn’t surprise me if the team plan involved sending her off to “do a Pooley” at some point in the race.

by Monty. on Sep 15, 2009 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I am a Mara Abbott fan.

Goodness.

by Sui Juris on Sep 15, 2009 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

No Hincapie, George?

he’s only the American RR champ and all…

"On a personal level, I have never had admiration for him and I never will"
~AC about LA, me about Johan "drama queen" Bruyneel

by Phil H. on Sep 14, 2009 9:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

CN says

Hincapie, Horner, and Zabriskie chose not to go.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/danielson-leads-confirmed-us-worlds-squad

"It's just a bike race" - Frank Schleck

by Pendleton on Sep 14, 2009 9:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Ah, OK.....WHAT UNPATRIOTIC FREEDOM HATERS! /sarcasm

"On a personal level, I have never had admiration for him and I never will"
~AC about LA, me about Johan "drama queen" Bruyneel

by Phil H. on Sep 14, 2009 9:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

No mention of Armstrong & Leipheimer?

(didn’t click the link). So the five strongest riders are lounging in Aspen during Worlds. Nice.

by tedvdw on Sep 15, 2009 6:42 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Typical, really.

by gavia on Sep 15, 2009 10:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Horner still hurt?

Horner said he wanted to come back for Lombardia if I remember. I am just guessing that he doesn’t have time to recover between his Vuelta crash and Worlds.

by John.. on Sep 15, 2009 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sure I can believe that

Still, that’s not what CN wrote according to Pendleton above.

by tedvdw on Sep 15, 2009 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Horner

He said his season was over a few weeks back, once they added up all the fractures. There were a bunch in addition to the wrist that was initially reported. Someone at CN is asleep at the switch on that one, I’m guessing.

by gavia on Sep 16, 2009 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Zabriskie

Strange decision, he had great form and has said he wants to win the worlds TT some day. I guess Cancellara presence is intimidating.

by aavf on Sep 14, 2009 9:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It must be exhausting to do a week long stage race, travel to Europe

from the states, get over jet lag and adjust to the time change. Its much easier for the riders like Cancellara who are already in Europe.

by ZoeRochelle on Sep 14, 2009 10:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

They have two weeks

and tell that to the classics guys who do Het Newbladder 6 days after the ToC ends.

"On a personal level, I have never had admiration for him and I never will"
~AC about LA, me about Johan "drama queen" Bruyneel

by Phil H. on Sep 14, 2009 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Zoe...the women are already over in Europe getting ready....

by steph- on Sep 15, 2009 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Garmin franchises seem well represented.

I think between Howes and Stetina there’s a podium there. Following our hypothetical “who goes there” conversation of last month, the US team looks pretty solid, I don’t see a stand out leader though. Louder perhaps, if only because he is a force to be reckoned with on the road. It’s hard to place any of these guys over an Italian squad that is designed to win this race.

by Fred Marx on Sep 15, 2009 1:41 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs