Five women will represent the U.S. in elite women’s division at the BMX World Championships. Arielle Martin (Pleasant Grove, Utah/Intense-Monster Energy) and Amanda Geving (Largo, Fla./MCS) earned automatic nominations, while Alise Post (Saint Cloud, Minn./Redline Bicycles), Ashley Verhagen (Simi Valley, Calif./Crupi) and Amanda Carr (Punta Gorda, Fla./Endeavor-RippXX) will join the squad as coaches’ picks. Martin, the 2009 overall women’s Supercross World Cup champion and last year’s Worlds bronze medalist leads this group. Geving also earned an automatic nomination as she currently sits in the top 10 in the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup rankings. Brooke Crain (Visalia, Calif./Clayborn-Monster Energy) and Taylor Wolcott (Roseville, Calif./Tangent) will represent the U.S. in the junior women’s race. Crain secured an automatic nomination as the top junior woman in USA Cycling’s BMX Power Rankings. Both Crain and Wolcott are graduates of USA Cycling’s BMX Junior Development program where they spent extensive time training at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif.
2010 UCI BMX World Championships Pietermaritzburg, South Africa July 29 – August 1. USA Cycling 2010 BMX World Championship team:
Elite Men 1. Donny Robinson (Napa, Calif.) 2. Kyle Bennett (Conroe, Texas)
Junior Men 3. Connor Fields (Henderson, Nevada) 4. Corben Sharrah (Tucson, Ariz.)
Elite Women 1. Arielle Martin (Pleasant Grove, Utah) 2. Amanda Geving (Largo, Fla.) 3. Alise Post (Saint Cloud, Minn.) 4. Ashley Verhagen (Simi Valley, Calif.) 5. Amanda Carr (Punta Gorda, Fla.)
Junior Women 6. Brooke Crain (Visalia, Calif.) 7. Taylor Wolcott (Roseville, Calif.)
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