Todd Wells giving us his post-race report. © Cyclocross Magazine
The 2010-11 cyclocross season has come and gone, and with it some incredible moments of victory, near misses and missing outs. By all accounts it was a nail-biting year, with a clearly on-form Katie Compton looking to unseat the Queen of ’cross Marriane Vos, and falling short; with Jeremy Powers and Tim Johnson beating each other senseless in the USGP series; and with Sven Nys and Kevin Pauwels taking the GvA Trofee honors to the line, with Nys just managing to come out on top.
But, as we have done for the past three years, we here at Cyclocross Magazine have to shine our biggest spotlight on the USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships in Bend, OR. This event is obviously most relevant to the bulk of our domestic readers, but it’s also everything we want ’cross to be – a celebration of every age and ability of rider, from the youngest to the oldest, where the crowds cheer just as loudly for Junior 10-12 winner Matteo Jorgenson as they do for Elite winner Todd Wells; where every racer is a fan, and many fans are racer.
In honor of this, and to complement our upcoming print issue featuring profiles of each of the winners and a stunning photo essay by photographer Joe Sales, we are bringing you post-race interviews with your 2010 US national champions, as well as many podium finishers. We wanted to hang on to these to give us all some much needed ’cross injections during the dry, boring off season, and we feel that reliving the event through the eyes of the winners will do just that. We will be releasing new interviews on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, so keep checking back in!
Elite Women
Katie Compton
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Elite Men
Todd Wells
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Single Speed
Men: Adam Craig
Women: Kathy Pruitt
Junior Men
10-12 Matteo Jorgenson
13-14 Gage Hecht
15-16 Logan Owen
17-18 Jeffrey Bahnson
Junior Women
13-14 Emma White
15-16 Corrie Osborne
17-18 Alexis Ryan
Masters Men
30-34 Mathew Pacocha
35-39 Jonathan Baker
40-44 Peter Webber
45-49 Don Myrah
50-54 Steve Tilford
55-59 Ned Overend
60-64 Glen Norton
65-69 John Elgart
70-74 Erik Nordenson
75+ Walter Axthelm
Masters Women
30-34 Devon Haskell
35-39 Nichole Duke
40-44 Wendy Williams
45-49 Karen Hogan
50-54 Kris Walker
55-59 Linda Elgart
60-64 Martha Iverson
70+ Julie Lockhart
U23 Men
Danny Summerhill
U23 Women
Kaitlin Antonneau
Collegiate D1
Zach McDonald
Ashley James
Collegiate D2
Steve Fischer
Kimberly Flynn
Other Finishers:
Ryan Trebon, Elite Men 2nd Place
Jamey Driscoll, Elite Men 4th Place
Alex Candelario, Elite Men 9th Place
Adam McGrath, Elite Men 26th Place
Georgia Gould, Elite Women 2nd Place
Meredith Miller, Elite Women 3rd Place
Kathy Sherwin, Elite Women 4th Place
Nicole Duke, Elite Women 6th Place, Masters 35-39 Champ
Cody Peterson, Masters Men 30-34, 3rd Place
Russell Stevenson, Masters Men 35-39, 2nd Place
Kevin Hines, Masters Men 50-54, 2nd Place
Brook Watts, Masters Men 55-59, 11th Place
Danny Summerhill, U23 Champion, reflects on his mother’s racing
Ryan Leech, Collegiate D2 Men, 2nd Place
Spence Peterson, Junior Men 15-16, 3rd Place
Nate Morse, Junior Men 15-16 4th Place
Barb Howe, Masters Women 35-39, 2nd Place
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