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Brennan Wertz holds off chasers to win his first national title at US Gravel Championships

September 9, 2024
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Brennan Wertz (Mosaic Cycles) gained the elite males’s title on the US Gravel Nationwide Championships on Sunday, driving solo throughout the road in Gering, Nebraska with a pack of 9 chasers on his heels.

Wertz completed the 131.5-mile course in 5:50:37, which was six seconds forward of the cost behind, led by John Borstelmann (Slowtwitch Goodlife Racing) in second place and gravel newcomer Colby Simmons (Visma-Lease a Bike) in third. Defending champion Keegan Swenson (Santa Cruz Bicycles) completed sixth.

Wertz had already earned qualification to the UCI Gravel World Championships with a victory at this yr’s Highlands Gravel Traditional in Arkansas, however will now compete on October 6 in Belgium on the Worlds within the stars-and-stripes jersey. Final yr he completed third place on the inaugural US Gravel Nationals.

Together with Wertz, the riders within the prime 5 additionally earned automated {qualifications} to the Gravel World Championships – Borstelmann, Simmons, Russell Finsterwald (Trek Driftless) and Griffin Easter (OpiCure Basis Gravel Workforce p/b Canyon). 

The highest seven finishers shared in half of the $40,000 prize purse on supply for elite athletes, Wertz incomes $10,000 for his victory. 

Each the elite males’s and girls’s races had been held on the identical course as 2023, with 5,600 toes of elevation acquire throughout western Nebraska farmland that featured 90% gravel roads. Dry circumstances made for quick occasions, with Wertz bettering his time by slightly greater than 10 minutes from final yr, and claiming the primary nationwide title in his biking profession.

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PositionRiderTime1Brennan Wertz (Mosaic Cycles)05:50:372John Borstelmann (Slowtwitch Goodlife Racing/Ventum/Voler)+0:063Colby Simmons (Workforce Visma-Lease a Bike)+0:064Russell Finsterwald (Trek Driftless)+0:065Griffin Easter (OpiCure Basis Gravel Workforce p/b Canyon Bicycles)+0:076Keegan Swenson (Santa Cruz Bicycles/SRAM)+0:077Lance Haidet (Specialised/SRAM/Velocio/FatTire)+0:078Cobe Freeburn (Bear Gravel Workforce)+0:079Ian Lopez de San Roman (Aevolo)+0:0710Innokenty Zavylov (Mazda – Orange Seal)+0:0811Andy Lydic (futureofgravel)+2:1512Joe Goettl (Ache Academy/Scheels)+2:5313Ian Brown (Bear Nationwide Workforce)+7:5214Ethan Overson (Pinarello Scuderia)+9:5315Tobin Ortenblad (Santa Cruz SRAM htSQD)+9:5316Marc Spratt+12:0517Finn Gullickson (Cannondale, Capo, Carbsfuel)+14:2418Matthew Koenig (Workforce Mike’s Bikes powered by Equator Coffees)+16:0119Skyler Taylor (Above Class)+16:0120Chase Wark (Driftless Journey Membership)+16:0321Nathan Spratt+18:3722Harrison Biehl+18:3723Dylan Johnson (Felt UN1TD)+18:3824Hayden Christian (Linear Racing)+24:2125Jonas Woodruff+29:2226William Hardin (Velocious Sport)+29:3727Andy Scarano (Flicker p/b Yarak.cc)+32:1528John Frey (Goodlife Slowtwitch Racing)+32:1629Stephen Schaefer (Landis Cyclery/Trek)+34:3530Dillon McNeill (Slowtwitch GoodLife Racing)+34:5731Cory Greenberg (Workforce Ride4IBD – Empowering Intestine Well being)+37:2632Yusuf Johnson (College of Chicago)+41:1833Donoven Francis (United Biking)+49:4934Zack Allison (Bike Sports activities)+55:1035Michael Garrison (MGR p/b NICH SpeedClub)+56:5736Brady White (Bear Nationwide Workforce)+1:05:2937Ethan Hughes (Groove Subaru Excel Sports activities)+1:19:3838John Goldman (McDowell Mountain Cycles)+1:38:1339Lief Yergensen (Specialised Sacramento)+1:53:1040Logan Broedner (Yorkshire Canines)+1:55:52DNFDaxton Mock (Bear/Orange Seal)Row 40 – Cell 2 DNFAndrew Dillman (PJCT D1ZL CLTV)Row 41 – Cell 2 DNFJacob HuberRow 42 – Cell 2 DNFMatt Jablonski (Enve)Row 43 – Cell 2 DNFGriffin Hoppin (Stream Formulation/Spinergy Wheels/ESI Grips)Row 44 – Cell 2 DNFTodd KluxdalRow 45 – Cell 2 DNFBrock Mason (Tremendous Squadra) Row 46 – Cell 2 DNFTrevor August (Above + Past Most cancers Biking)Row 47 – Cell 2 DNFSeth Lasley (Parks Regulation Agency p/b Omnia Racing)Row 48 – Cell 2 DNFCullen Perkey (Avout Selects)Row 49 – Cell 2



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