Colorado Springs, Colo. (February 9, 2012) â€" army Cycling declared today the 2012 army Cycling Professional Mountain Bike Gravity Tour (Pro GRT). In its ordinal year, the program has swollen to sextet races and continues to improve the take of combative somberness racing crossways the United States. As the country’s premier somberness calendar, the Pro GRT aims to wage a conformable stage of international-caliber events for elite somberness racers to background their descending skills.
The nation’s crowning somberness racers module be looking to dethrone 2011 champions Cody Warren (Alpine, Calif./DRD X-Fusion Intense) and Jill Kintner (Ferndale, Wash./Transition Racing) as the downhill-only program visits fivesome states from Apr to August.
The calendar module begin with a visit to Port Angeles, Wash., for the ordinal consecutive assemblage as the NW Cup module erst again squawk things off, this assemblage Apr 26-29. The Mountain Creek Bike Park module play host to the calendar’s newest event, the Eastern States Cup in Mountain Creek, New Jersey, on May 20. The program module then nous meet up the road to Roxbury, N.Y., for Plattekill Mountain’s kibosh on the Eastern States Cup, May 27.
Things again modify up out west, June 9-10, when the Mountain States Cup â€" Chile Challenge offers riders a preview of the 2013-2014 army Cycling Mountain Bike Gravity National Championships venue in falls Fire, N.M. The nation’s crowning somberness riders module nous back to New royalty the mass weekend for the Pro GRT’s ordinal stop, the Whiteface Pro GRT 5K Downhill in Wilmington, N.Y. The exclusive UCI category digit circumstance on this year’s Pro GRT schedule, the Northstar Pro GRT module twine things up in Truckee, Calif., Aug. 3-5.
Each of the sextet stops module offer program senior points to crowning finishers, resulting in coverall individualist titles for professed men and women. The racers with the most points throughout the six-race program module be recognized as the prizewinning somberness athletes competing on U.S. soil.
The maximal ranked Americans in the Pro GRT coverall rankings (provided he/she are in the crowning three) as of July 30, 2012, module also be an semiautomatic activity to the United States’ World Championship team. In addition, Pro/Category 1 lowly men athletes, racing age 17 or 18, with the fastest closing time in each round of the army Cycling Pro GRT Downhill program prior to July 30 module be placed into a world title activity pool. For more on World Championship activity check out USA Cycling’s Mountain Bike Gravity World Championship activity document. All player activity procedures can be viewed on USA Cycling’s Team Selection page.
To view the flooded calendar, underway standings and for more on the Pro GRT, visit www.usacycling.org/progrt.
2012 army Cycling Pro Gravity Tour (Pro GRT)
- April  26-29 NW Cup â€" Port Angeles, WA
- May  20 Eastern States Cup â€" Mountain Creek â€" Mountain Creek, NJ
- May 27  Eastern States Cup â€" Plattekill â€" Roxbury, NY
- June 9-10  Mountain States Cup â€" Chile Challenge â€" falls Fire, NM
- June 16-17  Whiteface Pro GRT 5K Downhill â€" Wilmington, NY
- August 3-5  Northstar Pro GRT â€" Truckee, CA
Source: Jesse Hammond
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