Wisconsin State Criterium Championships - Quick Report.

Just a quick recap of the top two races now. More detail later. 

RESULTS

Women Open: Midway through their 50 minute race, three riders managed to escape: Kaitlin Antonneau (Kenda),  Rachel Roessingh (IS Corp), and Holly Mathews (Team Wisconsin). Nearing the end of the race, three things happened with maybe a dozen laps to go: 1. It began to rain, 2. Holly Mathews crashed on the back stretch, and 3. Kristin Wentworth (Kenda) bridged up. This now changed the entire dynamics of the race, with Kenda now having their name written all over it.

It was not to be for Team Kenda today however as Holly Mathews simply poured on the coals and won the drag race between her and Wentworth, to become the Wisconsin State Criterium Champion for 2010.

Pro 1/2 men. 56 men started the Championship race under a drizzly rain with a field that had plenty of talent to provide an interesting race. Long story short - IS Corp was looking to double up on State Championships after winning the road race last week 

in convincing fashion. At the bell, under darkening lights,  they had it all worked out with a lead out train that had the field all strung out into one long line. Around the final corner and down to the line Jordan Roessingh (IS Corp) had a shot at it, but in a close bike throw towards the line, lit with spot lights, Ignacio (Iggy) Silva (Trek - Livestrong U23) took the win. Second was BMC's Cole House, and since he was the first Wisconsin resident to finish, he is the new State Criterium Champion for 2010!