Colorado Springs, Colo. (July 13, 2005)— USA Cycling announced today automatic nominations for the UCI junior road and track world championships in Vienna, Austria August 7-14.
Three junior women and four junior men received bids based on various performances.
Shannon Koch (Flower Mound, Texas), Kimberly Geist (Emmaus, Pa.) and Cindy Lakatosh (Trexlertown, Pa.), earned the women’s nominations and Chris Stockburger (Fort Collins, Colo.), Ben Barczewski (Breinigsville, Pa.), Spencer Hartfeld (Santa Barbara, Calif.), and Mike Schnabel (Emmaus, Pa.) automatically qualified in the junior men’s ranks.
Koch captured two national titles last month, winning both the time trial and the road race at the Park City Cycling Festival to secure her spot on the road.
On the track, Geist earned a couple of national championships herself with victories in the individual pursuit and the scratch race last week, but it was her bronze medal performance in the individual pursuit at the 2004 junior world championships that gave her an automatic bid for this year’s event.
Lakatosh also won two events at junior track nationals – one of which secured her spot on the world championship team. With a time of 38.748 seconds in the 500 meter time trial, Lakatosh met the time standard necessary to make the squad before taking a win in the sprint three days later.
Stockburger earned his nomination on the road with a win in the time trial at the Park City Cycling Festival.
The team sprint trio of Barczewski, Hartfeld and Schnabel clocked a winning time of 1:04.90 at the junior track nationals to meet the time standard and automatically qualify.
Discretionary nominations for the UCI junior world championships will be announced on July 18.
This Article Published 2005-07-13 15:27:23
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