USA CRITS: Skylar Schneider and Marcos Mendez score decisive wins at Greenville Cycling Classic

Skylar Schneider (L39ION of Los Angeles) and Marcos Mendez (Basis New York) received the elite races at Greenville Biking Traditional Thursday evening, the fourth cease of USA CRITS.

Schneider delivered the knock-out punch on the ultimate corners of the 50-lap elite ladies’s race, beating Elizabeth Harden (Kingdom Elite Racing) and Andrea Cyr (HigherDOSE – Renova) to the road in downtown Greenville, South Carolina.

Harden and her teammate Ray led into the final lap of the six-turn ‚L-shaped‘ course, Schneider and Cyr glued to their wheels. Ray pulled off for Harden, however it was Schneider who blitzed the entrance group on flip 5 and created distance after flip six.

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Girls’s Particular person sequence chief Liza Ray (Kingdom Elite Racing) rolled throughout the road in fifth place, simply off the wheel of Rebecca Lang (Workforce Winston Salem-FLOW). Harden and Lang second and third, respectively, within the particular person standings.

This was the primary race within the sequence for each Schneider and Cyr, who confronted off at Redlands Bicycle Traditional with Schneider taking a pair of podiums and Cyr incomes two prime 10s.

Already dominant at Sunny King Criterium and LaGrange Biking Traditional in April, Mendez earned his third sequence victory. His Basis Biking New York teammate Bryan Gomez completed second within the bunch dash, holding off a cost from Workforce Cadence Cyclery pb Waldo Racing duo Luke Fetzer and Cade Bickmore, third and fourth respectively.

Leonel Rodriguez (The Paceline Undertaking) completed fifth and continued to guide the boys’s particular person standings together with his consistency of prime finishes. Preston Eye (Clif Household Drifters Biking) completed sixth, and retained a slim margin within the total forward of Mendez.

The sequence stays in South Carolina Friday evening for the Spartanburg Criterium introduced by Spartanburg Medical Heart and Gibbs Most cancers Heart, with the sixth on Saturday evening in Suwanee, Georgia.

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