Start Lists: Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! World Cup Waterloo Cyclocross

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! The world’s best cyclocrossers will be in Waterloo, Wisconsin for the 2019 World Cup Waterloo.

The second stop of the nine-race Telenet UCI Cyclocross World Cup, Waterloo provides a chance for Maghalie Rochette (Specialized / Feedback Sports) and Eli Iserbyt (Pauwels Sauzen – Bingoal) to repeat their Jingle success and the rest of the fields to score wins of their own during the two-race U.S. World Cup mini-series.

Two days ago, we brought you a complete* guide to enjoying Madison if you are attending and yesterday, we had a preview of what’s new and returning with the course and event.

Today, it’s start lists for Sunday’s World Cup. Find out who is number one in your scorecard—actually, nobody, because World Champs Sanne Cant (IKO – Crelan) and Mathieu van der Poel (Corendon – Circus) are not racing—and make plans for who will be number one in your heart come Sunday.

Elite Women

Last year’s Elite Women’s World Cup Waterloo featured an epic battle between Marianne Vos (CCC – Liv) and Ellen Noble (Trek Factory Racing CX). Vos is preparing for next weekend’s Road Worlds, but Noble is back looking to have another magical afternoon on the grounds of her team’s sponsor.

Rochette enters Waterloo looking to stay perfect on the 2019/20 cyclocross season—it would have been perfect on the season save a last-lap bobble at e-Mountain Bike Worlds—after sweeping the Rochester weekend and winning Sunday’s Jingle Cross C1 to go with her World Cup victory.

Joining Rochette as a rider to watch is her friend and mentor Katerina Nash (Clif Pro Team). Nash took second to Rochette Saturday and Sunday in Iowa City, and she had a sneaky good third-place finish at World Cup Waterloo in 2018.

Joining Rochette as one of the stars of the young season is Team S&M CX’s Clara Honsinger. Honsinger finished second both days at Rochester and then finished third in the Jingle Cross World Cup using some craftiness in the sand one might expect to see from a far more experienced rider.

Another rider who joined Noble in having success in Waterloo in 2018 was her teammate Evie Richards (Trek Factory Racing CX). Richards won Friday’s C2 in 2018 and finished 4th in the World Cup. Richards asserted herself at Jingle Cross, finishing fifth in the World Cup and moving up to third in Sunday’s C1.

Finally, one wild card entering the weekend is the third member of the Trek Factory Racing CX troika, Jolanda Neff (Trek Factory Racing CX). Neff was last seen finishing second at XCO Worlds in Mont-Sainte-Anne and is reportedly ready to start Sunday’s race in Waterloo.

Neff showed what she can do with good and bad grid spots last season, but with the new World Cup gridding rules that puts the top 24 riders in the World Cup standings on the first 3 rows, she will face a challenging task moving up through the field on Sunday.

Similar to last weekend, the North American contingents will be well-represented by young riders. Taking the start for the U.S. will be Turner Ramsay (Alpha Bicycle – Groove Subaru), Shannon Mallory (NWCX Project), Bridget Tooley (Easton – Giant p/b Transitions LifeCare), Katja Freeburn, Cassidy Hickey and Lauren Zoerner (Alpha Bicycle – Groove Subaru).

The Canadian contingent of young riders includes Dana Gilligan (Next Wave), Kelly Lawson (Hardwood Next Wave) and Nicole Bradbury (NCCH Elite p/b MGCC).

The full Elite Women’s start list is below.

Elite Men

The 2018 World Cups were the bailiwick of Toon Aerts (Telenet Baloise Lions), as the Belgian outdueled Wout van Aert (Jumbo – Visma) in both Wisconsin and Iowa.

This year, the rider making an early play for the Man of 2019 is newly minted Elite Eli Iserbyt. Sensing an opportunity with Van Aert injured and Van der Poel dominating the Tour of Yorkshire to get ready for Road Worlds, Iserbyt came into the World Cups on great form and got the result he was looking for at Jingle Cross.

Iserbyt benefitted from good riding by his Pauwels Sauzen – Bingoal teammates, and there is no question the Telenet team will be looking to bounce back at the Trek-sponsored team’s home away from home on Sunday. Aerts would no doubt welcome the chance to have a little help against the on-form Iserbyt.

Three riders battled for third in Iowa City—Daan Soete (Pauwels Sauzen – Bingoal), Gianni Vermeersch (Creafin – Fristads) and Laurens Sweeck (Pauwels Sauzen – Bingoal). Sweeck took 3rd in at World Cup Waterloo in 2018 and Soete 5th, while Vermeersch crushed Sunday’s C1 at Jingle Cross, so that trio returns as one to watch in Waterloo.

The Elite Men’s race will also feature a number of North American U23 riders. Eric Brunner (FCX Elite), Caleb Swartz (Linear Sport / Trek), Scott Funston (Hold Fast Project) and Ross Ellwood (Alpha Bicycle – Groove Subaru) are starting for the U.S.

Full start lists are below.

The Elite Women’s race is at 1:30 p.m. CDT and the Elite Men’s race is at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday.

Elite Women Start List: 2019 World Cup Waterloo

Bib	Name	Country	YOB	UCI Rank
2	SELS Loes	BEL	1985	7
3	VAN LOY Ellen	BEL	1980	9
4	*TRUYEN Marthe	BEL	1999	60
5	*VAN DER HEIJDEN Inge	NED	1999	13
6	KAPTHEIJNS Maud	NED	1994	17
7	DE BOER Sophie	NED	1990	26
8	*BAKKER Manon	NED	1999	36
9	VAN DE REE Monique	NED	1988	218
10	COMPTON Katherine	USA	1978	19
11	KEOUGH Kaitlin	USA	1992	6
12	NOBLE Ellen	USA	1995	14
13	HONSINGER Clara	USA	1997	20
14	FAHRINGER Rebecca	USA	1989	24
15	RUNNELS Samantha	USA	1991	37
16	GILBERT Sunny	USA	1979	41
17	MCFADDEN Courtenay	USA	1985	43
18	ANTHONY Crystal	USA	1980	48
19	LEGGE Regina	USA	1984	58
20	NOLAN Caroline	USA	1989	69
21	NUSS Raylyn	USA	1991	74
22	ZAVETA Erica	USA	1989	98
23	*RAMSAY Turner	USA	2000	238
24	*MALLORY Shannon	USA	1998	247
25	*TOOLEY Bridget	USA	2002	291
26	*FREEBURN Katja	USA	1999
27	*HICKEY Cassidy	USA	2003
28	*ZOERNER Lauren	USA	2003
29	RICHARDS Evie	GBR	1997	32
30	*KAY Anna	GBR	1999	40
31	NASH Katerina	CZE	1977	16
32	GONZALEZ BLANCO Lucia	ESP	1990	28
33	NEFF Jolanda	SUI	1993	31
34	MANI Caroline	FRA	1987	29
35	ROCHETTE Maghalie	CAN	1993	8
36	*WEST Ruby	CAN	1999	44
37	JACKSON Jennifer	CAN	1995	55
38	*GILLIGAN Dana	CAN	1999	82
39	*LAWSON Kelly	CAN	2002	206
40	*BRADBURY Nicole	CAN	2003	267
41	HEIGL Nadja	AUT	1996	30
42	REDMOND Natalie	AUS	1991	105
43	LARKIN Maria	IRL	1987	95
44	*BUCKLEY MCMAHON Annabel	IRL	2003	320

Elite Men Start List: 2019 World Cup Waterloo

Bib	Name	Country	YOB	UCI Rank
2	VAN DER HAAR Lars	NED	1991	6
3	VAN KESSEL Corne	NED	1991	8
4	NIEUWENHUIS Joris	NED	1996	18
5	WOUTERS Sieben	NED	1996	34
6	GODRIE Stan	NED	1993	40
7	VAN DER HEIJDEN Maik	NED	1997	60
8	AERTS Toon	BEL	1993	2
9	VANTHOURENHOUT Michael	BEL	1993	4
10	SWEECK Laurens	BEL	1993	5
11	HERMANS Quinten	BEL	1995	7
12	VERMEERSCH Gianni	BEL	1992	9
13	ISERBYT Eli	BEL	1997	10
14	SOETE Daan	BEL	1994	15
15	ADAMS Jens	BEL	1992	17
16	MEEUSEN Tom	BEL	1988	20
17	AERNOUTS Jim	BEL	1989	22
18	BAESTAENS Vincent	BEL	1989	24
19	SWEECK Diether	BEL	1993	26
20	CLEPPE Nicolas	BEL	1995	27
21	AERTS Thijs	BEL	1996	29
22	LOOCKX Lander	BEL	1997	35
23	CHAINEL Steve	FRA	1983	32
24	ORTS LLORET Felipe	ESP	1995	12
25	SUAREZ FERNANDEZ Kevin	ESP	1994	55
26	WHITE Curtis	USA	1995	14
27	HYDE Stephen	USA	1987	39
28	WERNER Kerry	USA	1991	25
29	*HECHT Gage	USA	1998	28
30	DRISCOLL James	USA	1986	56
31	KAISER Cody	USA	1992	57
32	DILLMAN Andrew	USA	1994	70
33	*BRUNNER Eric	USA	1998	77
34	FIX Brannan	USA	1997	79
35	ORTENBLAD Tobin	USA	1994	85
36	THOMPSON Eric	USA	1989	87
37	BRADFORD-PARISH Kevin	USA	1982	94
38	LANDO Nicholas	USA	1997	113
39	*SWARTZ Caleb	USA	1999	166
40	*FUNSTON Scott	USA	2000	253
41	*ELLWOOD Ross	USA	1999	458
42	RUEGG Timon	SUI	1996	47
43	*KUHN Kevin	SUI	1998	83
44	WINTERBERG Lukas	SUI	1988	165
45	VAN DEN HAM Michael	CAN	1992	36
46	JETTE Cameron	CAN	1987	204
47	O'DONNELL Trevor	CAN	1996	213
48	VANDALE Danick	CAN	1995	326
49	RICCI Christian	CAN	1996
50	HEIGL Philipp	AUT	1993	176
51	TREY Jarno	EST	1982	263