The LifeTime Grand Prix isn’t taking an end-of-season relaxation. The premier race collection is already ramping up for the subsequent 12 months, with a slight change in format and variety of contributors. There was a lot hypothesis on who will select to take part and who can be chosen to race the 2025 LifeTime Grand Prix.
The 2025 LifeTime Grand Prix roster is essentially the most globally various version within the collection’ four-year historical past, with representatives from 12 nations. This 12 months’s lineup showcases a mix of seasoned rivals and worldwide expertise poised to shake up the elite off-road biking scene.
What’s New for the 2025 LifeTime GrandPrix?
- 50 whole athletes (down from 60 beforehand), 25 males and 25 girls
- 6 Wild Card spots (3 Males and three Girls) can be introduced after the second occasion
- New occasion line-up to incorporate 6-iconic occasions with (down from 7 beforehand) one drop race.
Males’s Roster Highlights:
Returning and dominant champion Keegan Swenson leads a formidable discipline that features 2024 podium contenders Matthew Beers and Payson McElveen. The worldwide roster options Mattia De Marchi (Italy), ex-World Tour racer Lawrence Naesen (Belgium), and Tsgabu Grmay (Ethiopia). Swiss veteran Simon Pellaud rounds out a discipline filled with depth and expertise.
Full Males’s Roster – LifeTime Grandprix 2025:
- Matthew Beers – South Africa
- John Borstelmann – USA
- Zach Calton – USA
- Hugo Drechou – France
- Griffin Easter – USA
- Sean Fincham – Canada
- Russell Finsterwald – USA
- Tsgabu Grmay – Ethiopia
- Howard Grotts – USA
- Finn Gullickson – USA
- Dylan Johnson – USA
- Brendan Johnston – Australia
- Bradyn Lange – USA
- Payson McElveen – USA
- Mattia De Marchi – Italy
- Lawrence Naesen – Belgium
- Simon Pellaud – Switzerland
- Cole Paton – USA
- Torbjørn Andre Røed – Norway
- Keegan Swenson – USA
- Alexey Vermeulen – USA
- Alex Wild – USA
Girls’s Roster Highlights:
Defending champion Sofia Gomez Villafañe returns alongside a robust lineup of top-10 finishers from 2024. Notable newcomers embody Cécile Lejeune (France), Annabel Fisher (UK), and Australian gravel champion Courtney Sherwell.
Full Girls’s Roster LifeTime Grandprix 2025:
- Crystal Anthony – USA
- Ellen Campbell – USA
- Lauren De Crescenzo – USA
- Cecily Decker – USA
- Axelle Dubau-Prévot – France
- Annabel Fisher – Nice Britain
- Sofia Gomez Villafañe – Argentina
- Stella Hobbs – USA
- Erin Huck – USA
- Sarah Lange – USA
- Cécile Lejeune – France
- Deanna Mayles – USA
- Paige Onweller – USA
- Hannah Otto – USA
- Hayley Preen – South Africa
- Jenna Rinehart – USA
- Melisa Rollins – USA
- Samara Sheppard – New Zealand
- Courtney Sherwell – Australia
- Alexis Skarda – USA
- Haley Smith – Canada
- Michaela Thompson – USA
Wildcard Choices:
Three wildcard spots for each women and men can be awarded post-Sea Otter Basic Gravel and UNBOUND Gravel, guaranteeing the collection stays dynamic as much as the beginning.
“The combo of returning champions and worldwide riders will elevate the 2025 collection, highlighting the Grand Prix’s rising world standing.”
Kimo Seymour, Life Time’s SVP of Occasions