eam UnitedHealthcare concluded a week of double-victories at the Benton Park Classic, with Hannah Barnes leading UHC\u2019s first-ever sweep of the women\u2019s podium. Barnes\u2019 Benton Park victory, along with that of UHC men\u2019s Ken Hanson, capped both team\u2019s sweep of first place in every race of the four-day Gateway Cup. he Benton Park Classic, the final event of both the Gateway Cup and the USA CRI S season, was held September 1 in St. Louis, Missouri.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Luke Keough won the first men\u2019s race, and Hanson topped the podium in the next three. he situation was reversed with the women\u2019s team, with Coryn Rivera taking the first three victories and Barnes winning the final race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
he first races, the our de Lafayette, offered a strong hint of the days to come when the UHC men\u2019s team fended off repeated attacks to put Keough across the finish line first and Hanson in third place. he women\u2019s team grabbed victory with a late-race sprint led by Rivera, who won by a comfortable margin. A fellow Maxxis rider, eam IBCO\u2019s Samantha Schneider, took second place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite aggressive attacks by other teams throughout the next day\u2019s our de Francis Park, Rivera and Schneider were again 1-2 in the women\u2019s race. Similar tactics in the men\u2019s race were unsuccessful, as UHC began a lead-out three laps from the finish. Hanson took the victory, with Keough in third place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
UHC again dominated at Sunday\u2019s Giro della Montagna, with a win for Hanson and second place for Keough. Maxxis-sponsored riders earned all three women\u2019s podium spots, as Rivera took another decisive victory with Schneider in second place and Barnes in third.\u00a0<\/p>\n
he final day saw UHC women\u2019s team engaging in repeated attacks to give Rivera a 15-seond lead as the Benton Park Classic entered its final stretch. After a sprint to the finish line, Barnes took the win with Rivera in second and the team\u2019s Cari Higgins in third. Hanson and Keough were again 1-2 in the men\u2019s race, winning with a sprint in the last lap.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Maxxis congratulates Ken Hanson, Coryn Rivera, Hannah Barnes, Luke Keough and all of their teammates on a week of outstanding teamwork and thanks them for an exciting USA CRI S season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"news_category":[272],"class_list":["post-34451","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_category-bicycle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n