USA Cycling Announces 2021 UCI Marathon Mountain Bike World Championship Team

10 Americans will head to Tuscany to compete in the Marathon Mountain Bike World Championships.

ELBA ISLAND - TUSCANY, Italy – USA Cycling announced today the athletes who will represent the United States at the 2021 UCI Marathon Mountain Bike World Championships that will take place in the Elba Island, Italy on October 2, 2021.

The marathon mountain bike course will test

riders’ skills and endurance with the men racing 115km and the women racing 80km through the countryside of Capoliveri.

Headlining the team is 2021 Cross-Country Mountain Bike National Champion Keegan Swenson (Park City Utah; Santa Cruz Bicycles) who will take the line with 2018 Cross-Country Mountain Bike World Champion Kate Courtney (Kentfield, Calif.; SCOTT-SRAM Factory Racing). Kelly Catale (Pepperell, Mass.) most recently raced to Top-15 in the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon Series in Arbent, France.

 

The Team USA roster is as follows:

Men

Kyle Trudeau (Phoenix, Ariz.; Construction Zone Racing)

Alex Wild (San Jose, Calif.; Orange Sealed)

Keegan Swenson (Park City Utah; Santa Cruz Bicycles)

Will Foley (Golden, Colo.; MI3 Petroleum Engineering)

Jules Goguely (Ogden, Utah)

 

Women

Kelly Catale (Pepperell, Mass.)

Kate Courtney (Kentfield, Calif.; SCOTT-SRAM Factory Racing)

 

Visit USACycling.org for more information on the athletes, events and membership programs, and follow @USACycling across all channels for the latest on Team USA.

For more information, contact Angelina Palermo at apalermo@usacycling.org.

 

ABOUT USA CYCLING (usacycling.org)

USA Cycling is the national governing body for the sport of cycling and oversees the disciplines of road, track, mountain bike, cyclocross, and BMX. USA Cycling’s mission is to champion accessibility, participation, and excellence in the sport of cycling to make more Americans healthier, happier, and better on two wheels while achieving sustained international racing success. USA Cycling supports cyclists at all levels, from those just beginning in the sport and participating in fun rides to international caliber racers. The organization identifies, develops, and selects cyclists to represent the United States in international competition through the support of kids’ and interscholastic programs, amateur bike racing and grassroots development programs, and the provision of critical infrastructure to run organized racing. USA Cycling has a membership of 100,000, annually sanctions over 2,500 events, and is a proud member of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC).