Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) and Neilson Powless (EF Schooling-EasyPost), the highest two riders from the 2023 Maryland Biking Traditional, can be again in Baltimore on September 6 for the occasion’s third version. Organisers confirmed preliminary rosters for the UCI Professional-level race on Tuesday, and in addition disclosed the anticipated checklist of starters for the inaugural Maryland Biking Traditional Girls, which can be held earlier the identical day utilizing the identical course.
“With seven squads that had been on this yr’s Tour de France, coupled with some robust Professional Sequence and Continental groups, this yr’s line-up is stacked with probably the most expertise the occasion has seen up to now,” stated Bobby Julich, males’s competitors supervisor who additionally had a protracted profession as a professional rider.
“It’s been nice to see lots of the prime riders from america floor on rosters. This yr’s race guarantees to be extremely unpredictable, because of the uniquely difficult course design. The mix of cobblestones, technical sections, and punchy climbs will guarantee an thrilling and thrilling occasion from begin to end.”
“We’re thrilled to unveil a world-class girls’s area for the inaugural Maryland Biking Traditional girls’s race,” stated Joanne Kiesanowski, a former elite skilled now the ladies’s competitors supervisor. “With riders representing 21 international locations and groups spanning the UCI Girls’s WorldTour, Continental stage, home elite groups, and nationwide squads, the worldwide high quality and variety of this roster is phenomenal.”
The boys’s race will cowl of six laps of a Baltimore County circuit for a complete of 107.4 miles (172.8 kilometers). The ladies’s race absorb 4 laps of the identical circuit for 71.6 miles (115.2 kilometers). The ladies will begin at 8:30 a.m. EDT and the boys following at 12:30 p.m. EDT.
Girls’s area is deep
The ladies’s area is stacked with worldwide and US expertise. Along with Cromwell, Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto brings Dane Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, who was sixth on GC at Tour of Britain Girls this season.
The opposite top-tier programme is Ceratizit Professional Biking, bringing Czechia highway champion Kristýna Burlová with 5 different riders as they compete for a last time as a workforce. The WorldTour workforce introduced they misplaced sponsorship and would fold after the season, making the Maryland Biking Traditional Girls their last competitors.
Aegis Biking Basis brings a pair of prime highway riders who now star on gravel, Lauren Stephens and Melisa Rollins. This yr Stephens was the silver medalist at USPro highway nationals and winner of each UCI stage races within the US, Tour of the Gila and Tour de Bloom. Rollins, a previous winner of Leadville 100, gained this yr’s Leadville MTB Stage Race and SBT GRVL.
Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28 has a stacked workforce stuffed with highway and monitor champions – USPro ITT elite nationals winner Emily Ehrlich, U23 US highway winner Ella Sabo, present Cuban time trial and highway race champion Marlies Mejias and Anna Hicks, GC winner of Tucson Bicycle Traditional and winner of 4 gold medals on the 2025 US Elite Observe Nationwide Championships.
Rising younger stars within the girls’s peloton embrace Cynisca Biking’s Chloe Patrick, the U23 US ITT nationwide champion; Cassidy Hickey of CCB p/b Levine Regulation Group, the U23 US criterium nationwide champion; and the reigning elite girls’s Benin highway race nationwide champion Charlotte Metoev, simply 20 years outdated.
Last rosters can be confirmed subsequent week, in addition to particulars to observe the race by way of streaming providers or social media. Go to the Maryland Biking Traditional web site for checklist of riders.