The Sunny King Criterium powered by Sunny King Automotive returns Saturday, April 5, for its twenty third 12 months to downtown Anniston, Alabama. The occasion has a full day of novice and elite races, with the ladies’s and males’s professionals battling underneath the lights for an equal share in a $16,000 prize purse.
The Sunny King Criterium additionally units the bar within the USA CRITS sequence with factors on supply for elite particular person racers and elite groups within the assortment of 9 races throughout 5 states. Winners might be selected Could 24 at Winston-Salem Biking Basic in North Carolina.
The dwell broadcast is offered by occasion sponsor Sparklight and begins at 12:00 (CDT) with novice races and can proceed till the conclusion of the elite races within the night. The ladies’s professional race is scheduled to start out at 17:10 (CDT) and the boys’s professional race is ready to start out at 18:15 (CDT).Â
A number of cameras, together with two drones, will seize the fast-paced races on a standard four-cornered, one-kilometre course. Announcers Brad Sohner and Frankie Andreu will describe the motion whereas Jenna Foley will report from the sidelines.Â
Solely a choose few biking media web sites will carry the livestream, together with Cyclingnews, and the published can be out there on the Anniston Biking web site.Â
The lads’s professional discipline consists of 104 opponents, led by final 12 months’s fourth-placed Michael Garrison (MGR p/b +Velocity l Studio), who’s seeking to safe the win. Jonas Walton is the lone rider at the beginning for Undertaking Echelon Racing and Matthew Crabbe for Scorching Tubes Growth Biking. Among the many bigger groups, Thomas Gibbons leads Automated Racing, Frank Travieso returns with Staff Flicker, whereas Lucas Bourgoyne rides for Staff CAdence Cyclery /b Encore Wire and Alabama’s Jonathan Crain rides with Skyway Racing
The ladies’s professional discipline is a condensed group of three dozen riders and filled with expertise. Makayla MacPherson (CCB p/b Levine Legislation Group), Peta Mullens (Liv SRAM Tango Racing) and Lauren Baker (Fount Biking Guild) are available as wildcards with out different teammates. Among the many multi-rider groups to look at might be riders who completed within the prime 10 final 12 months, together with fourth-placed rider Luisa Parra (Bikes Biking Staff), fifth-placed Erica Carney (Piedmont College) and Brittany Parffrey (Staff Winston Salem), who was seventh.
