Caroline Mani (Alpha Bicycle Co-Groove Silverthorne) received day two of the elite ladies’s C2 races at Hunter Subaru North Carolina Grand Prix in Hendersonville.
Lauren Zoerner (Alpha Alpha Bicycle Co-Groove Silverthorne) secured second place by outsprinting Hannah Arensman (Ignition p/b Rigd-Leitner), who moved onto the ultimate step of the rostrum from a fourth-place end on Saturday.
The weekend of UCI C2 races at Jackson Park had been a part of the North Carolina Cyclo-Cross Sequence, and the ultimate occasions in USA Biking’s Skilled Cyclocross Calendar (ProCX). Mani got here into the weekend because the ProCX ladies’s chief and the second place on Saturday mixed with Sunday’s victory ought to safe the title for the French rider.
Sunday’s contest noticed riders drafting off each other to flee the winds on the open components of the course at Jackson Park, which wound by way of the woods and onto sections of grass and grime. Absent from the beginning line was Saturday’s winner Jolanda Neff (Trek Manufacturing facility Racing), who traveled to South Carolina to compete in a mountain bike enduro occasion.
That left the three riders who adopted Neff on Saturday to battle for podium spots on Sunday. The trio hit full velocity straight away and separated from the remainder of the sphere after the primary of 5 laps. It stayed shut till the ultimate circuit.
“Into the final lap Caroline simply put in a dig and it form of yo-yo’d me off. Lauren was behind me and we couldn’t convey that hole again,” Arensman defined afterwards. “And Lauren being Caroline’s teammate, I knew she wasn’t going to assist me shut down the hole. So I used to be left with one among two selections – drop Lauren or work with Lauren. And I couldn’t appear to drop her. She’s a very robust rider.”
On the grassy downhill on that closing lap, Zoerner attacked and Arensman slid out in the course of the chase dropping management of her again wheel. “I got here to an entire halt, needed to get again on the bike.” She introduced again a few of the misplaced time and stored her adversary in sight, however might solely shut to 2 seconds so was left with the ultimate podium place.
| Pos. | Rider Identify (Nation) Group | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caroline Mani (Fra) Alpha Bicycle Co-Groove Silverthorne | 0:47:56 |
| 2 | Lauren Zoerner (USA) Alpha Bicycle Co-Groove Silverthorne | 0:00:46 |
| 3 | Hannah Arensman (USA) Ignition p/b Rigd-Leitner | 0:00:48 |
| 4 | Amelia Shea (USA) Suggestions Sports activities | 0:02:02 |
| 5 | Taylor Kuyk-White (USA) good bikes | 0:02:43 |