US roster set for marathon world championships
By:
Cycling News
June 8, 17:31
Race:
UCI Marathon World Championships
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Jeremiah Bishop (Cannondale Factory Racing) continues to hold onto the jersey after a fine fourth place finish.
Jeremiah Bishop (Cannondale Factory Racing) continues to hold onto the jersey after a fine fourth place finish.
Sonya Looney made the trip from CO to compete in the Trans-Sylvania Epic for Topeak Ergon
Bishop to lead four-person team to Italy
USA Cycling selected four athletes to represent the US team at the marathon world championships
in Montebelluna, Italy, on June 26.
Three men have been named to the team as discretionary selections including Jeremiah Bishop
(Cannondale Factory Racing), Blake Harlan (Jamis Factory) and Michael McCalla (Magura). The men will race 115.7km.
Bishop won the Bonelli Park US Pro XCT in March and placed second at the 2011 Pan American Mountain Bike Championships
in Chia-Cundiamarca, Colombia. He also recently won the Trans-Sylvania Epic mountain bike stage race and
the Massanutten Hoo Ha! Last year, he finished fifth at the US marathon national championships in Breckenridge, Colorado.
Harlan took the top prize at the Trans Andes Challenge in Chile and was runner-up at the White Tanks Marathon in Arizona.
McCalla placed seventh in last year's marathon nationals and finished 12th in last year's cross country national
championships in Granby, Colorado.
Sonya Looney (Topeak Ergon) will be the sole woman on the American team, and she is also a discretionary pick.
Looney will race 98.3km. She was eighth in last year's marathon nationals and 30th at the marathon Worlds
in St. Wendel, Germany. She also won the 2010 Bailey Hundo Marathon in Bailey, Colorado, and placed second
in each of the 2010 Gunnison Growler in Gunnison, Colorado, and 2010 Ouachita Challenge 60-Miler in Mena, Arkansas, races.
US national team for the marathon world championships
Men
Jeremiah Bishop (Cannondale Factory Racing)
Michael McCalla (Magura)
Blake Harlan (Jamis Factory)
Women
Sonya Looney (Topeak Ergon)
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