The UCI Juniors 17-18 opened the racing on the final of the 2022 USA Cycling Cyclocross Nationals. See how it played out below, with reporting by USA Cycling and CXM.
Junior racing was one of the bright spots of growth at the 2022 Cyclocross Nationals, with three more Junior 17-18 men lining up than in 2021, and 21 more than the last Hartford Nationals in 2017 .
Seventy three Junior Men lined up in the morning for the 17-18 race.
The top two Junior Men from the 2021 Nationals Race flipped the script and swapped places in 2022.
The race favorites going into the day were reigning national champion Magnus White (Boulder, Colo.; Boulder Juniors) as well as Koppenbergcross winner Andrew (AJ) August (Pittsford, N.Y.; FinKraft Junior Cycling Team).
The duo battled it out at the front and challenged each other through the corners.
Three laps in, August made his mark and secured a 12-second gap on White to take the stars-and-stripes jersey.Pan American Champion and Connecticut local, David Thompson (New Canaan, Conn.; FinKraft Junior Cycling Team) completed the podium with the bronze medal.After the race, August said, “It was my first race in the U.S. this season for cyclocross. I knew I was doing well this season based on how I did in Europe, but back here in the U.S., it’s kind of a different ballgame. I just took up the front and rode my own race, it was kind of tough to shake Magnus [White], but eventually, I was able to.”Finkraft had […]
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