USA Cycling has announced its automatic and coaches’ selection nominations for the UCI Junior Road and Track World Championships in Belgium August 5-13.
The nine-day event begins with track competition August 5-8 in Ghent in which five athletes were named to the team via coaches’ selection. Catherine Fiedler (Long Beach, Calif./Home Depot Center) and Lauren Shirock (Emmaus, Pa./South Mountain Cycles) were appointed to the women’s squad while Justin Williams (Los Angeles, Calif./Major Motion), Shane Kline (Bally, Pa./Team Fuji) and Nik Reinert (Mertztown, Pa./Team Fuji) comprise the men’s squad.
The road events are scheduled for August 10-13 and will feature both a road race and time trial for men and women. Tejay Van Garderen (Fort Collins, Colo./Team 5280-eSoles) earned an automatic nomination to compete in time trial event after capturing a national title at the USA Cycling National Festival at Seven Springs in July. Also, his international results led to a coaches’ selection for the road race.
Ben King (North Garden, Va./Hot Tubes) also earned a coaches’ selection to compete in the time trial event based on international results.
For the women’s road events, Arielle Filiberti (Worcester, Mass/Hot Tubes Development) and Jacquelyn Crowell (Maitland, Fla./Colavita) will each compete in both the road race and time trial.
Filiberti was an automatic nomination for the road race based on her national title and a coaches’ selection for the time trial. Crowell was an automatic nomination for the time trial as the national champion and a coaches’ selection for the road race.
