The Maryland Cycling Classic , America’s top-ranked cycling race, today announced its 2023 return after a successful inaugural event won by Sep Vanmarcke (Israel-Premier Tech).
With sponsorship from UnitedHealthcare, the one-day race will take place Sunday, September 3, 2023 amid a four-day weekend of events and will again feature national and international broadcast feeds.
In 2022, the Baltimore race drew a world-class, international field with several WorldTour teams present and a field of 111 riders representing an impressive 27 nations. This was the first time America hosted a rider field of this calibre since the Amgen Tour of California, a multi-day WorldTour race that was last held in 2019 when it was won by Slovenian star Tadej Pogačar .
The CEO of America’s governing body of competitive cycling, Brendan Quirk, lauded the race as being the “most important bike race that’s happened in America in the last five years."
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Calling it " a godsend ” after witnessing America’s interest in road racing steadily decline in the past decade, and the racing events consequently disappeared.
The top-level Tour of California announced its indefinite hiatus in 2020 and the Tour of Utah international men’s race followed suit at the end of 2021. The Colorado Classic, the last remnants of the iconic Coors Classic, made the switch to becoming a women’s only event in 2019 but has since been financially unable to continue as well.The men’s only Maryland Cycling Classic carries a UCI 1.Pro ranking and is one of just three UCI races remaining […]
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