EVENT NEWS
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August 9, 2023
Endurance Quest Espoo Returns to the Adventure Racing World Series
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – After a nine-year break, the legendary Endurance Quest Espoo (FINLAND) Adventure Race returns to the Adventure Racing World Series this coming weekend – and once again the race is sold out. Thirty-two teams, two more than planned, will start their 226-kilometer challenge on Saturday morning at 10am....
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August 8, 2023
Williams Takes Fourth in the Points Race on the Penultimate Day of Track World Championships
August 8, 2023, GLASGOW /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Day six of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships saw Lily Williams (Tallahassee, Fla.; Human Powered Health) battle for points, lap after lap, to earn fourth. Around the Glasgow City Circuit, the Americans competed in the Team Time Trial Mixed Relay. After a valiant...
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August 8, 2023
2023 City2Surf Returns This Weekend
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - With just five days until the City2Surf returns the countdown is on as the world’s largest fun run gets ready to set the streets of Sydney alive with its sea of colour and party atmosphere. This Sunday, more than 75,000 people will line up for this world-famous...
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August 8, 2023
The NCL Cup Atlanta to Pilot a New Approach to Cycling Races
ATLANTA/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – Gear up, Atlanta! This August, you're invited to an action-packed weekend of racing brought to you by the National Cycling League (NCL). On Saturday, August 19, at 6 p.m., get an insider’s view at the Team Qualifier event hosted at Bearings Bike Works (982 Murphy Ave SW 982 A,...
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August 7, 2023
The United States Earns Two More Medals on Day Five of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships
August 7, 2023 /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Bruce earns bronze in BMX Freestyle Park. Hoover takes eighth in the Omnium. Williams and Valente have their Worlds debut in the Madison, and the Americans conquer the Gran Fondo Time-Trial course. GLASGOW – On the fifth day of the 2023 UCI Cycling World...
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August 7, 2023
Roberts Wins Fifth World Title, Bruce Takes Bronze in 2023 BMX Freestyle World Championships
August 7, 2023, GLASGOW /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - The Americans looked strong going into Monday’s BMX Freestyle Finals at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships. With impressive qualifying scores in both the men’s and women’s events, athletes were focused and ready for this afternoon’s competition. The top qualifier on the women’s...
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August 7, 2023
Thömus Bikes Head to Glasgow for UCI MTB World Championships with Three Favorites
Santa Monica, California (August 7th, 2023) /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Thōmas Maxon Team, current UCI team points leaders are ready to head to Glasgow with 4th placed UCI ranked Lars Forster, winner in Leogang, 19th placed Mathias Flückiger who took 2nd in Val De Sole, Vital Albin, U23 rider Luke Weidmann,...
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August 7, 2023
Watch This Barkley Marathons Doc, and Thank Your Lucky Stars You Aren’t Competing
Dubbed “the race that eats its young,” the world-famously grueling event is hosted by eccentrically cheerful sadist Gary Cantrell, aka Lazarus Lake. Covering 100 miles of frigid Tennessee mountain country, the race is part trail run, part scavenger hunt, part extreme test of mental and physical fortitude. Racers navigate via...
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August 7, 2023
2024 Little Rockers Kids Marathon Registration Opens August 8
LITTLE ROCK, Ark./ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – Little Rock Marathon race officials today announced that registration for the Little Rockers Kids Marathon will open on August 8. The Little Rockers Kids Marathon is a family-friendly event to be held Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. The Little Rockers Kids Marathon is a...
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August 7, 2023
Paris 2024 Qualification on the Line for U.S. Goalball Teams at IBSA World Games
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – The USA Goalball men’s and women’s teams are loading up for a run at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games with both squads sending experienced rosters to the 2023 IBSA World Games in Birmingham, England, Aug. 18-27, the penultimate qualification event for next summer’s Paralympics. A first-place finish...
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August 6, 2023
The United States Finishes 11th and 20th in the Elite Men’s Road Race
August 6, 2023, GLASGOW /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Day four of the highly anticipated 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships witnessed a thrilling showcase of grit as the Elite Men’s Road Race took center stage in George’s Square. The United States earned another medal on the track and had nine riders qualify...
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August 6, 2023
Laidlow and Langridge Claim Titles at Inaugural Challenge London
London, UK /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Sam Laidlow (FRA) and Fenella Langridge (GBR) claimed the first-ever Challenge London titles as over 5,000 triathletes took part in the world’s biggest city centre triathlon. 2023 marks the first edition of the new-look event, formerly known as London Triathlon, and the first time the...
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August 6, 2023
Valente Goes Two for Two: Winning Medals in Friday’s Scratch Race and Sunday’s Elimination Race
August 6, 2023, GLASGOW /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - On the fourth day of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow, Jennifer Valente (San Diego; TWENTY24 Pro Cycling) raced her second individual event of the week, the Women’s Elimination Race. She earned bronze, making this her 19th World Championship medal. With...
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August 5, 2023
2023 UCI Cycling Worlds Day 4: Downhill Top Ten Finishes, Unpredictable Road Races, Close Track Racing, and Postponed BMX Freestyle Qualifications
August 5, 2023, GLASGOW /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - A rainy fourth day of racing at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships led to several adventitious results for Team USA. BMX Freestyle athletes saw delays during their qualifiers, but each of the road races and downhill events proceeded as planned. Racing stayed...
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August 5, 2023
Fifty-seven swimmers fall sick and get diarrhoea at world triathlon championship in Sunderland
At least 57 people fell ill with sickness and diarrhoea after competing in sea swimming events at the World Triathlon Championship Series in Sunderland, health officials confirmed this weekend. About 2,000 people participated in the events last weekend, which included a swim off Sunderland’s blue flag Roker beach. The UK...
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August 4, 2023
Valente Earns Gold on the Track, the Juniors Race Downhill Finals, and the Americans Complete the First Gran Fondo Event of the Week
August 4, 2023, GLASGOW /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Day two of the 2023 UCI World Championships saw racing at the Perth Gran Fondo course, the Fort William Downhill track, and the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. Track The second day at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome opened with the Women’s Team Pursuit...
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August 4, 2023
Valente Wins 2023 World Championship Scratch Race
GLASGOW /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - During the evening session of the second day at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, Jennifer Valente (San Diego; TWENTY24 Pro Cycling) tackled her first individual event, the Women’s Scratch Race. The 40-lap race was action-packed, with attacks breaking up the group in the latter half of the...
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August 4, 2023
The Ultimate Desert Challenge
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – Global ultra-marathon events series, Ultra X open registrations for Ultra X Jordan 2024 race, a 5 day, 220km race around the Wadi Rum Desert Ultra X Jordan 220 is a multi-stage ultra-marathon taking place over five days. The race takes place in the incredible, Mars-like landscape of...
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August 4, 2023
Australia’s Favourite 24 Hour Adventure Race Celebrates Two Decades
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – The Hells Bells 24 hour adventure race celebrates 20 years of competition on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland this coming weekend (August 5-6th). Few adventure races anywhere in the world achieve this longevity and consistency, and the race is one of the keystones of Australian adventure racing....
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August 4, 2023
Midwestern team Rib Mountain Racing wins 2023 Maine Summer Adventure Race
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – The 45 teams participating in the 2023 Maine Summer Adventure Race, a nonstop, 24-hour endurance event that took place in coastal Maine from 22 to 23 July, spent a lot of time on the beach. Unfamiliarity with the terrain was no obstacle to Rib Mountain Racing, a...
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August 3, 2023
The First Day of the World Championships Kicked Off With the Track Events and the Downhill Qualifiers in Scotland
August 3, 2023, GLASGOW .ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - The 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships kicked off on Thursday with several Endurance and Sprint Track events as well as the Downhill Qualifiers for the Juniors. With Team USA being represented in the Men’s Team Pursuit, Men’s and Women’s Team Sprint, Women’s Individual...
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August 3, 2023
Dygert Wins First World Title of the 2023 UCI World Championships for Team USA
August 3, 2023, GLASGOW /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - The 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships started with Chloé Dygert (Brownsburg, Ind.; CANYON//SRAM Racing) winning the Women’s Individual Pursuit taking her 11th World Title. Today, Dygert made her Track World Championships return after a crash at the 2020 UCI Road World Championships. The last time...
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August 3, 2023
‘Fan photos have quadrupled’ – has Netflix’s Tour de France Unchained made riders more popular?
Experts call it The Netflix Effect. Ask any F1 fan, and they will tell you how their sport surged in popularity after the release of Drive to Survive in 2019. Today, in fact, half of F1 fans in the US credit the series for their introduction to the sport. Could...
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August 3, 2023
Simbassa, Taylor Win Quad-City Times Bix 7 at Third PRRO Stop
DAVENPORT, IA /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – On Saturday morning, July 29, at the third stop on the PRRO Circuit 2023-24, Biya Simbassa and Kellyn Taylor won their respective Quad-City Times Bix 7 races as well as earning USATF Men & Women’s 7 Mile Championships titles and qualifying berths for the 2024 PRRO...
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August 3, 2023
Team USA Announced for NACAC Mountain and Trail Running Championships
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – The NACAC Mountain and Trail Running Championships will take place on Saturday, September 16, 2023, in Saskatchewan, Canada. This will be the 18th edition of the Mountain event and the first time for a Trail event. The championships will be held in conjunction with the Beaver Flat...