The Sunny King Criterium powered by Sunny King Automotive returns Saturday, April 5, for its twenty third 12 months to downtown Anniston, Alabama. The occasion has a full day of novice and elite races, with the ladies’s and males’s professionals battling underneath the lights for an equal share in a $16,000 prize purse.
The Sunny King Criterium additionally units the bar within the USA CRITS collection with factors on provide for elite particular person racers and elite groups within the assortment of 9 races throughout 5 states. Winners might be selected Might 24 at Winston-Salem Biking Basic in North Carolina.
The reside broadcast is supplied by occasion sponsor Sparklight and begins at 12:00 (CDT) with novice races and can proceed till the conclusion of the elite races within the night. The ladies’s professional race is scheduled to begin at 17:10 (CDT) and the lads’s professional race is about to begin at 18:15 (CDT).
A number of cameras, together with two drones, will seize the fast-paced races on a standard four-cornered, one-kilometre course. Announcers Brad Sohner and Frankie Andreu will describe the motion whereas Jenna Foley will report from the sidelines.
Solely a choose few biking media web sites will carry the livestream, together with Cyclingnews, and the printed can also be accessible on the Anniston Biking web site.
The lads’s professional subject consists of 104 rivals, led by final 12 months’s fourth-placed Michael Garrison (MGR p/b +Velocity l Studio), who’s seeking to safe the win. Jonas Walton is the lone rider initially for Undertaking Echelon Racing and Matthew Crabbe for Sizzling Tubes Growth Biking. Among the many bigger groups, Thomas Gibbons leads Computerized Racing, Frank Travieso returns with Group Flicker, whereas Lucas Bourgoyne rides for Group CAdence Cyclery /b Encore Wire and Alabama’s Jonathan Crain rides with Skyway Racing
The ladies’s professional subject is a condensed group of three dozen riders and full of expertise. Makayla MacPherson (CCB p/b Levine Legislation Group), Peta Mullens (Liv SRAM Tango Racing) and Lauren Baker (Fount Biking Guild) are available as wildcards with out different teammates. Among the many multi-rider groups to observe might be riders who completed within the high 10 final 12 months, together with fourth-placed rider Luisa Parra (Bikes Biking Group), fifth-placed Erica Carney (Piedmont College) and Brittany Parffrey (Group Winston Salem), who was seventh.
