Boulder Cup

Compton and Powers lock down day two of Colorado cyclocross racing, winning at Valmont Bike Park, where they claimed their national titles

The Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com rider went down hard on his back in a tuneup race last weekend

Behind the Barriers recaps the cyclocross racing in Colorado

Eight-time cyclocross junior national champion Logan Owen made his elite debut over the weekend and came roaring out of the back of the field

Results from the 2013 Victory Circle Graphix Boulder Cup

Caley Fretz documents the action during the weekend of cyclocross racing in Colorado

Compton starts fast, Powers starts slow, but they both wind up in the same place — on top of the podium

The Behind the Barriers team looks ahead to a weekend of racing at altitude in Boulder, Colorado

Defending champion not certain a wild ride at the Langkawi stage race and a cyclocross weekend will be enough to defend title

Brad Kaminski captures the action at the 2012 Boulder Cup as Ryan Trebon and Georgia Gould take the cup

Summerhill fires up the race but Trebon saves his matches for the finale

The Luna rider laid down one solid attack and that was all she wrote

UCI cyclocross racing heads to Colorado for the weekend and without the dominant favorites on-hand, the racing should be wide open

Men

• 1. Ben Berden, Ops-Ale Clement, in :59:25
• 2. Ryan Trebon, LTS-Felt, at 0:00:01
• 3. Timothy Johnson, Cannondale Cyclocrossworld.com, at 0:00:01
• 4. Geoff Kabush,Rocky Mountain-Maxxis , at 0:00:01
• 5. Tristan Schouten, Cyclocross Racing.com, at 0:00:13

• 1. Katherine Compton, Rabobank-Giant, in 42:33
• 2. Georgia Gould, Luna Pro Team, at 0:00:38
• 3. Caroline Mani, , at 0:00:48
• 4. Meredith Miller, Uci: Wpt Tibco To The Top, at 0:01:14
• 5. Julie Krasniak, Rapha Focus, at 0:01:14

BOULDER, Colo. (VN) — Following an abnormally slow start this year, former national cyclocross champion Tim Johnson said he could leave Colorado content with a third-place finish at Sunday’s C1 Victory Circle Graphix Boulder Cup.

Boulder Cup winner Ben Berden

Belgian Ben Berden and U.S. national champion Katie Compton emerged as winners Sunday at the C1 Boulder Cup cyclocross race in Colorado, the inaugural UCI race held at Boulder's new Valmont Bike Park.

Kelly Benefit Strategies roadie Alex Candelario races under the World Bicycle Relief banner at two Colorado cyclocrosses.

Two days of hard falls have national champ Katie Compton looking forward to another kind of down time.

Watch Georgia Gould close the deal at the FlatIron Crossing mall.

The elite men tackle a surprisingly tough 2010 Boulder Cup cyclocross at the FlatIron Crossing mall.

(Click headline for full results) MEN

• 1. Timothy Johnson (USA) Cannondale p/b Cyclocrossworld.com 1:00:47
• 2. Todd Wells (USA) Specialized 0:00:24
• 3. James Driscoll (USA) Cannondale p/b Cyclocrossworld.com 0:00:28
• 4. Geoff Kabush (Can) Maxxis-Rocky Mountain Bicycles 0:01:01
• 5. Adam Craig (USA) Rabobank-Giant Off Road Team 0:01:18

• 1. Georgia Gould (USA) Team Luna 0:41:34
• 2. Meredith Miller (USA) California Giant/Specialized 0:02:16
• 3. Nicole Duke (USA) HUDZ-Vista Subaru 0:02:37
• 4. Amanda Miller (USA) Hudz-Subaru Cycling Team 0:02:50
• 5. Teal Stetson-Lee (USA) California Giant/Specialized 0:02:57

UPDATED: Georgia Gould scores a solid win, Katie Compton abandons and Tim Johnson attacks late to drop Todd Wells.

Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com swept the men’s podium and Katie Compton (Planet Bike) swept the weekend by winning Sunday’s Boulder Cup, the second round of the fourth North American Cyclocross Trophy weekend.

Eighteen inches or more of fresh snow has forced organizers to move this Sunday's Boulder Cup race from a grassy city park in South Boulder to the sandy Boulder Reservoir. The new venue will be familiar to many — it's the same as used last year for the Saturday race of the North American Cyclocross Trophy series weekend in Boulder. This year, the Saturday race is being held at the Xilinx venue in nearby Longmont.

Find tricks and treats at the Xilinx campus on October 31st. The tech campus will host the The Blue Sky Velo Cup – a spectator-friendly cyclocross event that will bring entertainment and the nation’s best cyclocross racing to the Front Range . Free to all spectators, this is a must-see for fans of Halloween and cycling alike!

Saturday’s Blue Sky Velo Cup in Longmont, Colorado and Sunday’s Boulder Cup are part of the North American Cyclocross Trophy series.

The second day of UCI cyclocross racing in Boulder, Colorado, saw repeat scenarios develop as on Sunday, with an identical result in the women’s race and a new winner from the same podium finishers from Saturday’s men’s race. In men’s racing, a lead group quickly formed containing Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com teammates Tim Johnson and Jeremy Powers, Ryan Trebon (Kona) and Saturday’s winner Todd Wells (GT).

It was no day at the beach for the hundreds of professional and amateur ’crossers who competed in the opening round of the Boulder Cup, held Saturday on a sand-laden course at the Boulder Reservoir in Colorado. Todd Wells (GT) and Georgia Gould (Luna) took wins in the elite races, which stood as the fifth of eight round of the North American Cyclocross Trophy (NACT).

The nation’s top cyclocross racers will descend upon Boulder, Colorado, this weekend for a pair of UCI events held under expected warm, sunny skies. Saturday’s event, a UCI C2, will be held along the sandy shores of the Boulder Reservoir, while Sunday’s Boulder Cup, a UCI C1, will be held on the grass at Harlow Platts Park. Both events are part of the North American Cyclocross Trophy series, which culminates November 23 at Whitmore’s Landscaping Super Cross Cup in Southampton, New York.

Repeating their dominant performances from 24 hours earlier at Saturday’s Redline Cup, reigning U.S. national cyclocross champions Ryan Trebon and Katie Compton crushed the competition on Sunday at the UCI C1 Boulder Cup cyclocross in Boulder, Colorado.

Reigning U.S. cyclocross champions Katie Compton (Spike Shooter) and Ryan Trebon (Kona-Yourkey.com) scored crushing wins at Boulder, Colorado’s Redline Cup on Saturday. A dusty Boulder Reservoir played host to the UCI Category 2 race, and what its long 1.5-mile course lacked in mud and climbing, it made up for with sections of loose sand. Riders powered through rim-deep sediment in a volleyball court and a long beach section — the latter forced less-skilled racers to dismount and run.

Can anyone beat Katie Compton? Will the cyclocrossworld.com keep their Kona-beating streak alive? And what about Todd Wells — how is he going these days? These are a few of the questions to be answered this weekend as the heavy hitters of American ’cross line up for a pair of UCI races in Boulder, Colorado. Saturday’s Redline Cup and Sunday’s Boulder Cup are put on by Chris Grealish and Denver/Boulder Couriers, the same outfit that hosted last year’s Boulder stop of the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross. “We’re going on like we’re our own USGP,” DBC owner Grealish said. “And we think we can do