Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) and Neilson Powless (EF Schooling-EasyPost), the highest two riders from the 2023 Maryland Biking Basic, will probably be again in Baltimore on September 6 for the occasion’s third version. Organisers confirmed preliminary rosters for the UCI Professional-level race on Tuesday, and likewise disclosed the anticipated record of starters for the inaugural Maryland Biking Basic Ladies, which will probably be held earlier the identical day utilizing the identical course.
“With seven squads that had been on this yr’s Tour de France, coupled with some robust Professional Sequence and Continental groups, this yr’s line-up is stacked with probably the most expertise the occasion has seen so far,” mentioned Bobby Julich, males’s competitors supervisor who additionally had an extended profession as a professional rider.
“It’s been nice to see most of the prime riders from the US floor on rosters. This yr’s race guarantees to be extremely unpredictable, because of the uniquely difficult course design. The mixture of cobblestones, technical sections, and punchy climbs will guarantee an thrilling and thrilling occasion from begin to end.”
“We’re thrilled to unveil a world-class ladies’s discipline for the inaugural Maryland Biking Basic ladies’s race,” mentioned Joanne Kiesanowski, a former elite skilled now the ladies’s competitors supervisor. “With riders representing 21 nations and groups spanning the UCI Ladies’s WorldTour, Continental stage, home elite groups, and nationwide squads, the worldwide high quality and variety of this roster is outstanding.”
The boys’s race will cowl of six laps of a Baltimore County circuit for a complete of 107.4 miles (172.8 kilometers). The ladies’s race absorb 4 laps of the identical circuit for 71.6 miles (115.2 kilometers). The ladies will begin at 8:30 a.m. EDT and the boys following at 12:30 p.m. EDT.
Ladies’s discipline is deep
The ladies’s discipline is stacked with worldwide and US expertise. Along with Cromwell, Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto brings Dane Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, who was sixth on GC at Tour of Britain Ladies this season.
The opposite top-tier programme is Ceratizit Professional Biking, bringing Czechia highway champion Kristýna Burlová with 5 different riders as they compete for a ultimate time as a workforce. The WorldTour workforce introduced they misplaced sponsorship and would fold after the season, making the Maryland Biking Basic Ladies their ultimate competitors.
Aegis Biking Basis brings a pair of prime highway riders who now star on gravel, Lauren Stephens and Melisa Rollins. This yr Stephens was the silver medalist at USPro highway nationals and winner of each UCI stage races within the US, Tour of the Gila and Tour de Bloom. Rollins, a previous winner of Leadville 100, gained this yr’s Leadville MTB Stage Race and SBT GRVL.
Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28 has a stacked workforce full of highway and observe champions – USPro ITT elite nationals winner Emily Ehrlich, U23 US highway winner Ella Sabo, present Cuban time trial and highway race champion Marlies Mejias and Anna Hicks, GC winner of Tucson Bicycle Basic and winner of 4 gold medals on the 2025 US Elite Monitor Nationwide Championships.
Rising younger stars within the ladies’s peloton embrace Cynisca Biking’s Chloe Patrick, the U23 US ITT nationwide champion; Cassidy Hickey of CCB p/b Levine Regulation Group, the U23 US criterium nationwide champion; and the reigning elite ladies’s Benin highway race nationwide champion Charlotte Metoev, simply 20 years outdated.
Last rosters will probably be confirmed subsequent week, in addition to particulars to observe the race through streaming providers or social media. Go to the Maryland Biking Basic web site for record of riders.