Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) and Neilson Powless (EF Schooling-EasyPost), the highest two riders from the 2023 Maryland Biking Traditional, 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 Traditional Ladies, which will probably be held earlier the identical day utilizing the identical course.
“With seven squads that have been on this yr’s Tour de France, coupled with some robust Professional Collection and Continental groups, this yr’s line-up is stacked with probably the most expertise the occasion has seen to this point,” stated Bobby Julich, males’s competitors supervisor who additionally had an extended profession as a professional rider.
“It’s been nice to see lots of the high riders from america floor on rosters. This yr’s race guarantees to be extremely unpredictable, because of the uniquely difficult course design. The mix 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 girls’s discipline for the inaugural Maryland Biking Traditional girls’s race,” stated Joanne Kiesanowski, a former elite skilled now the ladies’s competitors supervisor. “With riders representing 21 international locations and groups spanning the UCI Ladies’s WorldTour, Continental degree, home elite groups, and nationwide squads, the worldwide high quality and variety of this roster is outstanding.”
The boys’s race will cowl six laps of a Baltimore County circuit for a complete of 107.4 miles (172.8 kilometers). The ladies’s race soak up 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 lads observe 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 last time as a group. The WorldTour group introduced they misplaced sponsorship and would fold after the season, making the Maryland Biking Traditional Ladies their last competitors.
Aegis Biking Basis brings a pair of high 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, received this yr’s Leadville MTB Stage Race and SBT GRVL.
Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28 has a stacked group crammed with 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 Traditional and winner of 4 gold medals on the 2025 US Elite Monitor Nationwide Championships.
Rising younger stars within the girls’s peloton embrace Cynisca Biking’s Chloe Patrick, the U23 US ITT nationwide champion in addition to Cassidy Hickey of CCB p/b Levine Regulation Group, the U23 US criterium nationwide champion and likewise the reigning elite girls’s Benin highway race nationwide champion Charlotte Metoev, simply 20 years outdated.
Closing rosters will probably be confirmed subsequent week, in addition to particulars of the way to observe the race through streaming providers or social media.