USA Cycling Names 49 Rider Squad for 2023 World Championships

Jul 13, 2023 at 7:11
by Ed Spratt  
Luca Shaw enjoying the view. He picked himself up after a solid crash earlier in the week to take the last step of the podium.

USA Cycling has named the 49 athletes it will be sending to the World Championships in Scotland. The squad features 20 XC and 16 Downhill riders.

The XC squad will be pinning its hopes on a stacked lineup of riders with the likes of Savilia Blunk, Haley Batten and Kate Courtney in the Elite Women's racing. Riley Amos will be a rider to watch in the U23 Men's racing and is a strong contender for a top result. Christopher Blevins will be the only rider in the Elite Men's race.

In the Downhill, there is a super-strong team of Elite Male riders with Dakotah Norton, Neko Mulally, Austin Dooley, Luca Shaw, Chris Grice, Dylan Maples and Dante Silva competing for top honors. In the Elite Women's racing, there is Abigail Hogie and Anna Newkirk. Aaron Gwin has not made this year's team.

The full Team USA roster including eMTB and Marathon is as follows:

Cross-Country

Elite Men
Christopher Blevins (Durango, Colo.; Specialized Factory Racing)

Elite Women
Haley Batten (Park City, Utah; Specialized Factory Racing)
Savilia Blunk (Inverness, Calif.; Rockrider FORD Racing Team)
Kate Courtney (Kentfield, Calif.; SCOTT-SRAM Factory Racing)
Gwendalyn Gibson (Ramona, Calif.; Trek Factory Racing)
Kelsey Urban (Kentfield, Calif.; Team 31)

U23 Men:
Riley Amos (Durango, Colo.; Trek Factory Racing)
Carson Beard (Middlesex, Vt.; Team Segment 28 )
Brayden Johnson (Littleton, Colo.; Bear National Team)
Bjorn Riley (Boulder, Colo.; Trek Future Racing)

U23 Women:
Bailey Cioppa (Durango, Colo.; Bear National Team)
Madigan Munro (Boulder, Colo.; Trek Factory Racing)
Sofia Waite (Littleton, Colo.; WE Development)

Junior Men:
Daniel English (San Ramon, Calif.; Bear National Team)
Raulito Gutierrez (Temecula, Calif.; Bear National Team)
Nicholas Konecny (Breckenridge, Colo.; Bear National Team)
Magnus White (Boulder, Colo.; Boulder Junior Cycling)

Junior Women:
Andie Aagard (Highland, Utah; Bear National Team)
Kellie Harrington (Pittsfield, Mass.; Bear National Team)
Vida Lopez de San Roman (Sebastopol, Calif.; Bear National Team)
Downhill

Elite Men:
Austin Dooley (Yucaipa, Calif.; Commencal / Schwalbe)
Christopher Grice (Brevard, N.C.; Generation Specialized)
Dylan Maples (Orangevale, Calif.; Commencal USA)
Neko Mulally (Pisgah Forest, N.C.; Frameworks Racing)
Dakotah Norton (Clinton, Tenn.; Intense Factory Racing)
Luca Shaw (Hendersonville, N.C.; Canyon Cllctv)
Dante Silva (Chula Vista, Calif.; Canyon Cllctv)

Elite Women:
Abby Hogie (Heidelberg, Germany; Beyond Racing)
Anna Newkirk (Riehen, Switzerland; Beyond Racing)

Junior Men:
Nate Kitchen (Bakersfield, Calif.; KHS Factory Team)
Ryan Pinkerton (Aliso Viejo, Calif.; GT Factory Racing)
Evan Medcalf (Albuquerque, N.M.; Commencal USA)
Gavin Tomlinson (Burbank, Calif.; Specialized | DVO | Fox Racing)

Junior Women:
Riley Miller (East Burke, Vt.; Killington Mountain School)
Taylor Ostgaard (Selah, Wash.; Transition Factory Racing)
Abby Ronca (Bethlehem, Pa.; The Gravity Academy)

Marathon

Men:

Hadden Beykirch (St. George, Utah; USA Cycling Athlete Development Pathway)
Patrick Collins (Worcester, Mass.; Assabet River Bicycles)
Will Foley (Golden, Colo.; Mi3 Petroleum Engineering)
Chris Mehlman (Manchester, Mass.)
Chris Schroeder (Longmont, Colo.; Dimond Factory Racing)
Danny Van Wagoner (Farmington, Utah; Team Johnson Elite Orthodontics)
Noah Warren (Birmingham, Ala.; USA Cycling Athlete Development Pathway)
Alex Wild (San Jose, Calif.; Mi3 Petroleum Engineering)

Women:

Kelly Catale (Pepperell, Mass.; Team KellCat)
Abigail Snyder (Roanoke, Va.; Ride Fierce)

eMTB

Men:

Trevor Bouchard (Manchester, N.H.)
David Harrison (Sun Valley, Idaho)
Nat Ross (Bentonville, Ark.)


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28 Comments
  • 9 0
 It looks like if you have Riley in your name your chances of being good on a bicycle and making the Worlds team are rather good.
  • 10 0
 No Asa Vermette for junior DH men?
  • 10 0
 He is signed on for next year's world cups, I think he was too young this year
  • 6 0
 He's 16, not old enough yet...
  • 5 0
 Kids gonna shake things up next year. Cant wait to watch him grow.
  • 3 0
 Unfortunately not old enough yet But will be full circuit and most likely champs as well next season
  • 3 0
 Can someone explain how we pick the worlds champ team before nationals happens? or are national champs just given a spot after they win?
  • 2 6
flag lelandjt (Jul 13, 2023 at 8:21) (Below Threshold)
 National champs happened last week, then they announced the Worlds team.
  • 6 0
 @lelandjt: DH (/gravity) national champs are this week.
  • 1 0
 @lelandjt: DH hasn’t happened yet. That’s the one I’m really wondering about.
  • 7 0
 The winner of the 2023 USA Cycling Mountain Bike DHI National Championship in each category, Junior
Men & Women, Elite Men & Women, will be automatically nominated to the 2023 USA Cycling MTB DHI team
provided that race is held in its entirety and run under UCI regulations. Given that this event takes place after the final Team selection date, any rider who wins the above-mentioned National Championships and has not yet been named to the Team will be added to the Team in addition to the athletes already confirmed, provided that a quota position remains available in their category. The National Champion is considered as a Level 2: Partial-Funded position.

s3.amazonaws.com/usac-craft-uploads-production/documents/Selection-Criteria/2023-UCI-WORLD-CHAMPIONSHIPS-MTB-DHI-ELITE-JUNIOR-MEN-WOMEN-SELECTION-CRITERIA.pdf
  • 1 0
 @bgoldstone: Thanks!!
  • 5 1
 How did we pick two Swiss women for the US downhill team?
  • 3 0
 Logistics, it is the way for non-European countries to make it somewhat doable to compete in cycling sport on the world leve.. The whole team including support can crash at their place, team trucks can park on the driveway. The Swiss ladies may not know yet though and are still celebrating in disbelief. Don't tell them, please allow them to celebrate a little longer.
  • 6 0
 They are both from the US, but currently live in Europe to make racing world cups easier.
  • 3 0
 Is Neko healthy enough to ride?
  • 1 0
 He’s been ripping laps on the nationals course this week at rock creek
  • 1 0
 Why is Blevins the only male elite XC rider going? I would think since XC has been big in the US for a while we’d have a lot more gents ready for the world stage?
  • 1 0
 He's the only competitive male American racer on the world stage, US may have only gotten 1 invite.
  • 1 0
 Was hoping Keegan Swenson would swoop into worlds too after being on such a vision quest this season.
  • 1 0
 Gwin is not going to worlds?
  • 10 0
 Still recovering from a broken arm.
  • 1 1
 5 women XC, 1 man. Seems like a LOT of women are going? Don't they have a fixed limit of 2 or 3 max?
  • 2 0
 I believe quota's are based on national rankings based on WC performances and UCI points. Only real name we have in Elite men is Blevins so US is pretty far down the rankings for Elite Men. Olympics have smaller fields of max 3 per country but world champs are larger and thus have more slots to allocate out.
  • 1 0
 @wilsonians: for XCO Olympics max is only two per country now and that’s only the top eight countries. Others get only one rider or none at all
  • 1 0
 Burbank wassup, Temecula too
  • 1 0
 Nat Ross, King of Pain!!
  • 1 0
 Go Taylor O! PNW proud







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