Joe Martin Stage Race

The racing scene in the US has taken a big hit in recent seasons with few major road races remaining on the calendar.

Wildlife Generation cleans up after four days, going 1-2 in the overall, landing two stage wins, and taking home the green jersey and teams classifcation.

Emma Langley secures overall after four days of racing.

Sunday's final stage is a 30-lap crit.

The EF Education-Tibco-SVB takes over the GC lead.

Diana Peñuela and Austin Killips round out the podium.

Friday's win went to Noah Granigan, while Jonathan Clarke maintains the GC lead.

Schneider sprints and Clarke soloes on day 1 of the four day stage race.

Set for May 19-22 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the race will feature 15 women's and 18 men's teams including EF Education TIBCO-SVB, L39ION of LA, and others.

The northwest Arkansas race celebrates its 45th anniversary and is on the calendar for May 19-22.

L39ion of Los Angeles completes the double victory at Joe Martin Stage Race, with Skylar Schneider and Tyler Williams winning the pro races.

Impact of COVID-19 in Arkansas and related travel restrictions force postponement to April 2021.

The Joe Martin Stage Race was held virtually this past weekend on Zwift. The event saw furious racing and a few technical hiccups.

The women's start list includes world champion Chloe Dygert, while Zwift U.S. national champ Holden Comeau will take on a strong mens' field.

Three stages of racing will take place on Zwift, June 19-21.

Olympic silver medalist Chloé Dygert makes an emphatic return to pro UCI racing with a victory in opening stage of Joe Martin Stage race after 11-month recovery.

Robin Carpenter and Ruth Winder won the first event of the USA Cycling Pro Road Tour, the Joe Martin Stage Race, over the weekend.

Top U.S. domestic teams are ready to kick off their 2017 seasons at the Joe Martin Stage Race in Arkansas.

Photos from the final day of the 2013 Joe Martin Stage Race

Results from the final stage of the 2013 Joe Martin Stage Race

Photos from stage 3 of the 2013 Joe Martin Stage Race

Results from stage 3 of the 2013 Joe Martin Stage Race

Photos from stage 2 of the 2013 Joe Martin Stage Race

Results from stage 2 of the 2013 Joe Martin Stage Race

The four-day race kicks off with a 2.5-mile, uphill time trial with an average gradient of 6.8 percent

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Series-leading Spaniard opens second round of the NRC with a stage win

Johnny Hoogerland gained a new legion of fans for his heroic ride to claim the KOM jersey after a television car blasted him off the road and into a barbed wire fence. With blood pouring from his legs and backside, Hoogerland soldiered on to the finish of stage 9, where he first went on stage, in tears, to receive his jersey, before being loaded into an ambulance for a ride to the hospital where he received 33 stitches.

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Jason Donald (OUCH-Bahati Foundation) and Kyle Wamsley (Bissell) left the Joe Martin Stage Race final day criterium with fractured clavicles after going down during Sunday's race.

Matt Crane (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) overcame a crash-marred final day at the Joe Martin Stage Race to edge teammate Karl Menzies for the win in the stage 4 criterium Sunday. Alexis Rhodes (Vera Bradley Foundation) attacked solo with three laps remaining and rode away from what remained of a decimated field for the victory in the women’s race.

Jonathan Cantwell (Fly V Australia) and Modesta Vzesniauskaite (Colavita-Baci) made it two in a row at the Joe Martin Stage Race Saturday. Cantwell, whose teammate Bernie Sulzberger took the stage 2 win, pulled off the bunch sprint ahead of Daniel Holloway (Bissell) and Aldo Ino Ilesic (Team Type 1).

Sulzberger, Vzesniauskaite fly to uphill wins at Joe Martin; Amaran, Powers lead overall

Webcor's Kathryn Curi Mattis and California Giant's Andrew Talansky win the opening stage of Arkansas' Joe Martin Stage Race

2010 Joe Martin Stage Race results

U.S. Scene: Collegiate Nationals and Joe Martin

Entering its 33rd year on the calendar in 2010, the Joe Martin Stage Race is an institution in southern stage racing.

On the final day of the Joe Martin Stage Race, a technical criterium with over 100 feet of climbing per one-mile lap, OUCH-Maxxis played perfect defense to secure Rory Sutherland’s third consecutive victory. At the race’s finish, it was Team Type 1’s Chris Jones and Luis Amaran of Colavita-Sutter Home emerging from the remnants of a 10-rider break to finish first and second in the stage, respectively. Amaran’s teammate, Lucas Sebastian Haedo, won the field sprint, putting him on the podium for the third time in the three days.

“It was tense from the word go,” said Mike Tamayo, director of OUCH-Maxxis, the team leading the Joe Martin Stage Race heading into Saturday’s 92-mile circuit race. But despite a breakaway containing many of the top general classification riders staying away late into the race, at the finish it was again Colavita-Sutter Home’s Lucas Sebastian Haedo placing first in a large field sprint ahead of Johnathan Cantwell (Fly V-Successful Living) and Nic Sanderson (Rock Racing).

A deluge of early morning rain dampened Fayetteville’s Ozark Mountain roads on the Friday morning prior to the 110-mile second stage of the Joe Martin Stage Race. When the skies finally parted, it was OUCH-Maxxis’s Rory Sutherland outsprinting a large field to take second place behind Colavita-Sutter Home-Cooking Light’s Lucas Sebastian Haedo. Sutherland secured the overall lead in the process via a 10-second time bonus.

In 2007, when Team Bissell’s Ben Jacques-Maynes raced to a fifth place finish at the Joe Martin Stage Race’s uphill, 2 1/2-mile time trial, he said time trial bikes were the norm. “This year I show up and everyone’s on road bikes with light wheels,” Jacques-Maynes said. “I know my time trial bike is light and I can get it up a hill just fine. There’s a half mile of flat road before the climb starts, and being in your time trial position for that section can be the one-second between winning and losing.”

Nichole Wangsgard and Lucas Sebastian Haedo — both of Colavita-Sutter Home — scored criterium wins in the final stage of Arkansas’ May stage race. Health Net's Rory Sutherland and Cheerwine's Robin Farina took the overall. Action Images photographer Kurt Jambretz was there to capture all the action.

Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Colavita-Sutter Home) took the stage 2 sprint win at the Joe Martin Stage Race in Arkansas. Action Images photographer Kurt Jambretz was there to catch all the action.

Health Net - Maxxis' Rory Sutherland won his second prologue of the 2008 National Racing Calendar on Thursday, setting a course record at the Joe Martin Stage Race's opening Devil's Den Time Trial. The Australian storming through uphill 2 1/2-mile race in 8:14, ten seconds ahead of Anthony Colby (Colavita-Sutter Home). Sutherland also won the prologue at the Redlands Bicycle Classic earlier this spring.

The Joe Martin Stage Race, set to start Thursday, will feature two road races, an uphill time trial, and a downtown criterium in the race’s hometown of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Organizers are expecting over 700 athletes from 17 countries and more than 40 states to compete in this year's race, said race director Bruce Dunn. Health Net-Maxxis has won the Joe Martin the last three years and anchoring the returning group is 2007 NRC winner Rory Sutherland, the 25-year-old powerhouse from Canberra, Australia.

Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) and Katherine Carroll (Aaron’s) took their respective openers as the 30th Joe Martin Stage Race kicked off Friday in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The 110-mile pro men’s race started in 80-degree heat and gradually grew hotter, but rains late in the stage dropped the temperature to a more comfortable 70 degrees. Dominguez, who took the sprint finish ahead of teammate Ivan Stevic and Alex Candelario (Jelly Belly), said the rains were a welcome relief. “The beginning was a little bit hot, but it was great when the rains came. It really cooled down,” Dominguez said.

After a double day of competition on Saturday at the Joe Martin Stage Race, Gord Fraser (Health Net-Maxxis) retained his overall lead in the men’s race and Erinne Willock (Webcor-Platinum) moved into the top spot in the women’s general classification. Fraser won the field sprint of a 92-mile road race in the morning, then finished ninth in the 2.5-mile uphill time trial – 19 seconds behind teammate Scott Moninger – to stay in the lead. Meanwhile, Tina Pic (Colavita-Cooking Light) took the women’s 69-mile road race, but Willock won the afternoon’s time trial to move into first overall, 20

Arkansas has been good to Gord Fraser (Health Net-Maxxis). In the final event of the Joe Martin Stage Race, a technical downtown criterium, Fraser won his third sprint finish and maintained his overall title. In the women’s race Erinne Willock finished fourth, 10 seconds down on race winner Kori Seehafer, to maintain first in general classification. Entering the final stage with the top two riders on general classification, Fraser and Scott Moninger, the Health Net-Maxxis racers had one thing on their mind – playing defense. On a criterium course in downtown Fayetteville featuring eight

Tina Pic (Colavita) and Health Net’s Gord Fraser won their opening stages at the Joe Martin Stage Race in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Friday, the opener in a growing three-day event with a healthy fan base and an increasing prize list. In a hard fought up-hill sprint to the line, Gord Fraser (Health Net-Maxxis) won the 110-mile men’s road race, beating Ivan Stevic (Toyota-United) and Alex Candelario (Jelly Belly) to the line. Fraser’s win came thanks to the help of his Health Net-Maxxis teammates Scott Moninger and Nathan O’Neill, who worked to chase down a dangerous break of four riders that

A new technical criterium at the Joe Martin Stage Race in Fayetteville, Arkansas, proved the undoing of Jelly Belly-PoolGel as the 28th annual stage race concluded on Sunday. Scott Moninger (Health Net) leapt into first place on general classification after finishing a close second to Garrett Peltonin (Advantage-Endeavor), who won the fourth and final stage. Health Net sent Chris Wherry and John Lieswyn out to an early lead in the 90-minute race, building a 40-second gap on the main field. Teammate Greg Henderson bridged up as Jelly Belly led a furious chase, decimating the peloton. About