Elite, U23 and junior t𓃲eams heading to Switzerland
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Georgia Gould (L♍una Pro Team) w🌳inning in front of her home town crowd (Image credit: Dave McElwaine/trailwatch.net)
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US National Champion Todd Wells (Specialized) (Image credit: Dave McElwaine/trailwatch.net)
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Former world champion M🗹elissa Buhl watching short tr🐽ack. (Image credit: Dave McElwaine/trailwatch.net)
USA Cycling announced its full contingent which will represent the country at the upcoming UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Champery, Switzerland from August 29 - S✤eptember 4.
The country will send seven men and seven women for the elite cr🐽oss country events, 12 riders in the U23 and junior cross country events, 18 downhillers, six four cross racer൲s and one trials rider.
US elite men's cross country national champion Todd Wells (Specialized) is an automatic nomination, along with Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (Subaru-Trek), Adam Craig (Giant) and Sam Schultz (Subaru-Trek). Discretionary selections were Jeremiah Bishop (Cannondale Factory Racing), Michael Broderick (Kenda-Seven-NoTubes) and Spencer Paxson (Kona Bicycles).
Jacqueline Harmony (All Mountain Cyclery-Vixen Racing) and Jill Kintner (Seattle, Wash./RedBull𓂃-Transition Racing) will lead the women's downhill squad.
The women's four cross squad will be headed up by Melissa Buhl (KHS), a silver medalist in two World Cups and currently the sixth-ranked rider on the UCI's World Cup four cross rankings.
Junior men downhill Nate Furbee Austin Hackett Klaube Kiran MacKinnon Neko Mulally (Trek) Trevor Trinkino (Yeti RPM) Austin Warren (DRD X-Fusion Intense) Christian Wright (Team Spincycle)
Junior women downhill Lauren Daney (Specialized-GROM Racing)
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