Cycling News — Winner

21 SEPTEMBER 2020 Giant-sponsored triathlete Gustav Iden won the Pushing Limits Race triathlon in Ratingen, Germany, coming on strong in the run to beat second-place finisher Pieter Heemeryck of Belgium by close to two minutes in the Olympic distance event. The Pushing Limits race featured a 1,000-meter swim in a pool, a 40km bike leg, and a 10km run. The bike leg was held on a hilly 10km circuit with four laps. Iden, the current Ironman 70.3 World Champion, chose to race his Propel Advanced SL aero road bike with a CADEX 65 Disc WheelSystem, the perfect setup for the technical bike course....

14 September 2020 The US-based Big Mountain Enduro Series wrapped up the abbreviated 2020 season in Winter Park, Colorado over the weekend. The pro categories tackled the four-stage race on Sunday under sunny skies. Liv Racings’ Isabella Naughton scored three out of four stage wins to take the overall victory in the women’s pro category. 19-year-old Liv Racing enduro athlete Isabella Naughton would typically be battling for the top-spot in the Enduro World Series U21 category at this time of year. Due to the global Coronavirus pandemic, Naughton has stayed closer to home in 2020, but that doesn’t mean she’s been slacking on training....

14 September 2020 The nine-stage Giro Rosa began Friday, September 11 with the team time trial where CCC-Liv finished seventh. Ashleigh Moolman Pasio crossed the finish line fifth on Saturday’s long first stage on the road, but it was Marianne Vos who took the team’s first stage victory on Sunday in a sprint finish into Assisi. CCC-Liv has started strong in the first major stage race of 2020. The Giro Rosa began Friday with the team scoring seventh in the 16.8km team time trial. In a tough second stage on the road with two gravel sections, CCC-Liv placed five riders in...

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 CCC Team rider Attila Valter put the finishing touches on a dominant team showing at the Tour de Hongrie stage race, winning the final stage and taking the overall victory at the five-day UCI Europe Tour race. Valter’s Stage 5 win made it four of five stage victories for CCC Team following his teammate Jakub Mareczko’s all-out blitz of the sprint stages. Mareczko won Stages 2, 3 and 4 and secured the points classification win. On the final day of the race, the Italian sprinter stepped aside as the team shifted its attention to the general classification. Stage 5,...

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2020 It was a winning weekend for CCC Team, with two of its riders scoring stage wins at UCI events. Czech rider Josef Černy won the Stage 4 time trial at the Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Acquitaine stage race in France, and Italian Jakub Mareczko won Stage 2 at the Tour de Hongrie. Černy, who was recently crowned Czech national time trial champion for the second time, once again proved his strength against the clock as he powered to the stage win at Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Acquitaine, a 2.1 UCI Europe Tour race in France. The 27-year-old rode his Trinity Advanced...