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USA Cycling announces team for Marathon Worlds

  • By Steve Frothingham
  • Published Jul. 29, 2009
  • Updated Aug. 9, 2009 at 1:49 PM UTC

Pua Sawicki (Ellsworth), Heather Holmes, Jeremiah Bishop (Monavie-Cannondale) and Harlan Price (Independent Fabrication) will represent the U.S. at the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships in Stattegg, Austria on August 23.

Bishop qualified for his spot by virtue of his second-place finish at the USA Cycling Mountain Bike Marathon National Championships in Breckenridge, Colorado earlier this month. Price earned his nod as the current number-one ranked male in the USA Cycling National Ultra-Endurance Calendar rankings.

Sawicki secured her automatic nomination with a second-place finish at the Mountain Bike Marathon National Championships. Holmes (from Park City, Utah), earned an automatic nomination by riding to fifth at nationals.

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Steve Frothingham

VeloNews.com editor Steve Frothingham joined the gang in bike-crazy Boulder in early 2008. He is the former executive editor of the trade magazine Bicycle Retailer & Industry News. He also was a reporter and editor for The Associated Press, where he covered three presidential primaries in politics-crazy New Hampshire. His racing career began on a BMX track in 1980 and reached its zenith with several miserable road races as a category 2 in the early 90s. He subsequently retreated to cat. 3, where he has had a consistently mediocre (at best) record ever since, in road, mountain bike and cyclocross events. Follow him on Twitter at @steve_froth