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2013 Cyclocross World Championships

• Antonia Leale Upgrades Nats Silver for Rainbow Stripes – Updated: Photo Gallery

  31 January 13 • 0 comment

  

  LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – Antonia Leale (Planet Bike) led the race from the holeshot to take the win ahead of Shannon Gibson (Stans No Tubes) and Geraldine Schultze (Bio Wheels). Leale took second in the 45-49 race at Nationals, and after she finished hugging her fiance, 55-59 National Champion Bob Downs, she told us that her goal [...]

• Kari Studley Takes World Masters Title in 30-34 – Updated: Photo Gallery

  31 January 13 • 0 comment

  

  LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – Kari Studley of Redline won the rainbow jersey today in the Masters Women 30-34. Brianne Marshall (Stans No Tubes) took second ahead of Andrea Wilson. Studley already took home two National Championship titles earlier this month, one in the Masters Women 30-34 and the other as the Womens Singlespeed National Champion. “It’s a [...]

• Masters Worlds Men 65-69 and 70+ – Victor Barnett and Jimmy Wagner Don Rainbows: Video Interviews, Results

  31 January 13 • 0 comment

  

  LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – In sharp contrast to the windy, balmy conditions that the Masters racers experienced in the opening heats, the first men today lined up today in a freezing flurry of snowfall. Far from frozen, however, the course had soaked up two days of rain and gave the men some hard, muddy power conditions [...]

• Catching Up With Jade Wilcoxson Before Worlds

  31 January 13 • 0 comment

  

  by Robbie Carver This Sunday, Optum Pro Cycling’s Jade Wilcoxson will be lining up alongside Katie Compton for the Elite Women’s World Cyclocross Championship – for the first time in her career, in her first season as a cyclocross racer. The 34-year-old professional road racer took an impressive and unexpected second place at the 2013 [...]

• Full Results: 2013 Masters Cyclocross World Championships Day Two – Qualifying Heats and Repechage

  31 January 13 • 1 comment

  There was a lot of racing on Tuesday, day two, of the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships. Qualifying heats and repechage rounds were held. See our video interviews, photo gallery and report from the day. We have full results of the heats below: For photos, video interviews, and report from the day’s racing, visit our report page from [...]

• Niels Albert Talks Worlds, America, Heckles and Nikes in Cyclocross Magazine Exclusive

  30 January 13 • 1 comment

  

  LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – Fresh off a meet-and-greet in downtown Louisville, a relaxed Niels Albert sat down with Cyclocross Magazine to discuss his American debut and defending the World Champion’s jersey this Sunday. Albert has had an incredibly consistent season, rarely finishing off the podium and taking home the overall World Cup title. “It’s been fun,” Albert said of [...]

• Klaas Vantornout Talks US Racing, Worlds, and His First Belgian National Championship Win

  30 January 13 • 1 comment

  

  Cyclocross Magazine got a chance to sit down with the elite men’s team from Belgium to get their thoughts on Louisville, Worlds in the US, travel and timezones, and their thoughts on the course thus far. Our first interviewee was Klaas Vantornout, the current reigning Belgian National Champion. He’s had one of his best seasons [...]

• What the Euros are Saying, from Across the Pond – Updated with Quotes

  30 January 13 • 0 comment

  

  by Christine Vardaros, Cyclocross Magazine’s American-turned-Belgian correspondent The Belgian vibe all week here has been a nervous one. We are all waiting on the riders to test the course, and we’ve been reading Nys’s complaints that he hasn’t been able to really see what it’s like. Once they’ve been on it then they can report [...]

• Chatting with Jeremy Powers About Worlds, Nationals, Training and DJing

  30 January 13 • 0 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford As Jeremy Powers sits in the kitchen of the Rapha-Focus team house in Louisville, sipping coffee and laughing, it’s hard to believe that he has the biggest race of the year coming up in just a few short days. But the clock is ticking down to Worlds, and while his race at [...]

• Fuji Scoops Up US National Champion Jonathan Page

  30 January 13 • 12 comments

  

  PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – Fuji Bikes is proud to announce that it has reached a sponsorship agreement with US National Cyclocross Champion Jonathan Page, who tallied his fourth national title in commanding fashion earlier this month in Wisconsin – notably crossing the tape without a bike sponsor. “When we learned of the opportunity, we jumped on [...]

• A Guide to Louisville, Site of the 2013 World Cyclocross Championships

  30 January 13 • 11 comments

  by Chris Mayhew The main thing to know about Louisville is that 4th St is hopping. A lot of local stuff has popped up there in recent years. It’s right next to the host hotel. Market Street has some good places to eat as well, just a bit east of the hotel. The super hip [...]

• Masters World Championships Schedule – Updated

  30 January 13 • 0 comment

  For those of you who came early to Louisville to race in, or spectate at, the 2013 Masters World Championships, be sure to check out our updated schedule for heat, consolation, and repechage times and masters world championship races. Share this with your friends and family and fellow racers. Sticking around for the Elite races [...]

• WD40Bikes Presents Master and Elite Worlds Neutral Bike Washing

  29 January 13 • 0 comment

  

  The first day at Masters Worlds was low-key enough to allow us some time to prowl around the venue and see what was happening. And what caught our eye was the neutral bike washing and lubing available at the WD40Bike tent, arguably the most popular spot of the day for riders pre- and post-race. Manned [...]

• Talking #Louisville2013FoamParty with Co-Creator Spencer Haugh

  29 January 13 • 1 comment

  

  The Internet has been ablaze for the past week with talk of the #Louisville2013FoamParty. And while it started as a joke, the party transformed into something very real, and we called up one of the promoters to figure out how this hashtag turned into an actual party, to be held Sunday night at Prime in [...]

• Louisville 2013 World Championships Schedule of Events

  29 January 13 • 0 comment

  

  With so many parties and events being announced, we finally decided it was time to take action and create a “master list” of all of the events happening surrounding Worlds. Tuesday, January 29 1:30-4:30 PM: Masters Worlds Heats Wednesday, January 30 8:30AM-5:00PM: Masters Worlds Heats Thursday, January 31 9:00AM-5:30PM: Masters Worlds Races 5:30-9:00PM: BelgiumBike party [...]