8th Alpenrose Challenge

The Alpenrose Challenge claiming to be the largest prize list track race in the USA with a $12,000 purse, will be held on the Alpenrose Velodrome in Southwest Portland between July 7-9. With elite men/women and masters catered for, the competition is expected to be solid.

Top of the the entry list is Pan-Am Games gold medallist Stephen Alfred, a native of Trinidad, who is now a U.S. citizen living in Capitola, California. Alfred holds the Alpenrose single flying-lap record at 15.10 seconds. Other riders expected to compete are Anne-Brit Erickson, from Calgary, the Canadian national sprint champion, and Becky Quinn, from Carlsbad, Calif., who has a U.S. national championship and was member of the U.S. Olympic team.

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