Several Colorado athletes were named to the 43-member U.S. team that will compete in the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Canberra, Australia, Sept. 1-6.
Boulder’s Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski received the only automatic nomination to the men’s team as USA Cycling Cross Country mountain bike national champion. He is joined by Todd Wells of Durango and Sam Jurekovic of Colorado Springs.
Heather Irmiger of Boulder, Georgia Gould of Fort Collins, Katie Compton of Colorado Springs and Judy Freeman of Boulder made the women’s cross country team. Joey Schusler of Boulder made the men’s downhill team.
Colin Cares of Colorado Springs and Tad Elliott of Durango made the under-23 men’s cross country team and Amy Dombrowsky of Boulder made the women’s under-23 cross country team. Russell Finsterwald of Colorado Springs made the junior men’s cross country team, Jill Behlen of Boulder made the junior women’s cross country team and Tom Neer of Arvada made the junior men’s downhill team.
