Needless to say, she moved from an outside podium contender to a bonafide contender for the win. She was also outside the top-20 at the first two rounds of the World Cup. She had one victory in 2018 and eight other podium finishes. One final factor that made her our Rider of the Year was her improvement from what was a good 2018/19 season. While Fahringer did not walk away with an Elite jersey – she was third at Pan-Am and second at Nationals – she was incredibly consistent and always in the lead group. Outside of that her “worst” result was a seventh place finish on day one of Cincy CX. While she was overshadowed by other North American riders, she finished inside the top-ten at the first two rounds of the World Cup. She racked up ten wins and had another five podium finishes on North American soul. From there, she undoubtedly was the woman to beat in North America. She would back that up with a second in Sunday’s C2 race. She then headed to Rochester for the first C1 of the year, finishing fourth. In hindsight, Fahringer was putting the North American women on notice. Under hot, dry conditions, she won on Saturday and was second on Sunday. North American seasonįahringer started her season off with the first North American UCI weekend in Virginia. It makes for an incredibly long season, but the long stretches in Europe are clearly paying off for both riders.
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The Kona riders have found a sweet spot in their schedule where they race a full domestic season and then after Nationals, in mid-December, they head to Europe and race until the season ends in February. Both riders began their season in August with Virginia’s Blue Ridge GO Cross and ended their season in February with Vestingcross Hulst.
When all was said and done, one rider kept moving up on our list: Rebecca Fahringer.īesides great results, Fahringer and her teammate, Werner, were the only two North American riders to race a truly full season. We also looked at Maghalie Rochette, who had an amazing season in North America and put up some good results in Europe. Hecht rode nearly wore-to-wire and Honsinger ended Katie Compton’s infamous streak. Then there’s the two US National Champions, Gage Hecht and Clara Honsinger. Those two riders dominated the North American scene from start to finish. The first two riders that jump out are Kerry Werner and Curtis White. When we first wrote down names, we came up with six riders. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Ĭhoosing the North American Rider of the Year was a very tough decision.Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).
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