Lizzy Gunsalus (Marian College) prolonged her cyclocross profitable streak to 4 consecutive UCI races with double wins at Main Taylor Cross Cup this previous weekend on her workforce’s house turf in Indianapolis, Indiana. Tofik Beshir (CXT) earned two podiums within the males’s occasions, together with his first UCI victory on the elite stage.
At simply 18 years of age and a local of Ethiopia, Beshir has been a resident within the US for the previous decade, however solely added cyclocross to his racing calendar three seasons in the past. On the street, he raced for Kelly Profit Methods however has matured in cyclocross, taking a spot on the rostrum eight occasions final season as a junior. Competing in all eight elite males’s races of the US Cyclocross Sequence this season, he completed sixth general and was the youngest rider within the elite males’s prime 10.
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Gunsalus outdueled veteran Caroline Mani (Velo Mafia) each days on the Indy Cycloplex course. The 22-year-old got here into the Indianapolis weekend with a pair of wins from Kings CX in Ohio, together with a victory in her season debut within the C1 contest.
“I’ve been attending Marian College for the previous 5 years and to lastly win the house UCI race on campus in Marian colours is such an unimaginable honor,” Gunsalus stated in a publish on Instagram.
Gunsalus gained the U23 ladies’s title on the US Cyclocross Championships two years in the past and final yr as a 21-year-old was fifth within the elite ladies’s contest. A local of Massachusetts, who races on the street for CCB p/b Levine Legislation Group, Gunsalus goes again to her New England roots subsequent to race Northampton Cyclocross on November 1-2, the occasion celebrating a thirty fourth version.
Unbound Gravel lottery opens November 1
Need to race Unbound Gravel in 2026? The lottery course of opens this Saturday, November 1, for all the 5 distances – XL, 200, 100, 50, or 25 miles – starting at 12:00 CDT. Entries shut on November 15 at 11:59 CST. Lottery winners within the random choice course of, managed by occasion house owners Life Time, shall be notified by e mail on November 21.
2026 marks the twentieth anniversary of Unbound Gravel, with the beginning of the 350-mile XL occasion scheduled for 3:00 native time on Might 30, and the 4 different distances sending riders on the course between 5:50 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Might 31. All occasions start on Industrial Road in downtown Emporia, Kansas.
There are a number of different methods to achieve entry into Unbound Gravel, together with elevating cash for Life Time Basis or Chris Klug Basis in a Experience for Charity programme, collaborating in an official four-day coaching camp (April 9-12, 2026), or competing at Sea Otter Traditional Gravel (April 16-17, 2026), which can present 50 ‘cash’ for qualification into Unbound. Different qualification occasions and volunteer alternatives present entries for Unbound in 2027.
Pan-Am Cyclocross Championships stay at originally-planned venue in Washington DC
The continued US authorities shutdown this fall created a scare for organisers of the upcoming cyclocross races to be held November 8-9 on the Armed Forces Retirement Dwelling in Washington, DC. Organisers of the 2025 UCI Pan-American Cyclocross Championships and UCI Class 2 DCCX occasions confirmed simply days in the past that an settlement was reached for the weekend of races to proceed as deliberate.
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“The Armed Forces Retirement Dwelling, the place the race takes place, is on U.S. Federal Authorities property and is topic to the continuing authorities shutdown. This meant our main contacts for the race venue have been not allowed to work, leaving us uncertain whether or not the race may happen on the premises,” proprietor of CXHAIRS Media Invoice Schieken – which operates each occasions alongside CXD Trek Bikes and DCMTB – stated in a proper announcement on Saturday.
“Fortunately, final week, after assembly with the remaining directors on the venue, we reached an settlement for PanAms and DCCX to proceed as deliberate.”
Schieken defined that as a result of federal authorities representatives couldn’t be reached for a number of weeks, his workforce went by way of a allowing course of for 2 new areas. With three weeks to go, the unique location on the Armed Forces Retirement Dwelling was reconfirmed. The DCCX occasion had first been held at that venue in 2008.
The PanAms for cyclocross make their debut in Washington, DC, this yr on a two-year contract. New for 2025 would be the internet hosting of a UCI Crew Relay Continental Championship occasion, a latest addition to the Continental programme however first launched on the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in 2023.
Registration for occasions stays open by way of November 5.
