After a 2024 cancellation, the Maryland Biking Traditional—America’s top-ranked professional highway race—returns larger and higher this season, with WorldTour groups like Lidl-Trek, EF Schooling-EasyPost and Group Jayco-AlUla headlining the early roster.
Earlier this spring, organisers introduced welcomed modifications to the UCI occasion, together with the addition of a girls’s race and a date shift to align the Maryland Traditional with the Canadian one-day WorldTour occasions. The brand new September sixth slot makes the transatlantic journey extra interesting for European groups chasing factors in each Maryland and Quebec.
The boys’s and ladies’s races will happen on the identical day and on related programs. Whereas the ladies’s roster has but to be introduced, organisers at this time shared the primary seven groups dedicated to attending the lads’s race. A complete of 16 groups, every consisting of seven riders, are anticipated.
Becoming a member of the aforementioned WorldTour groups are Colombia’s prime group, Group Medellín-EPM, Canada’s Hustle Professional Biking, American continental group Venture Echelon Racing, and a U.S. nationwide group comprising a choice of prime younger American expertise.
“The Maryland Biking Traditional is an occasion we sit up for annually and are keen to move to Baltimore as soon as once more this 12 months after the occasion was cancelled in 2024,” stated Steven de Jongh, head sports activities director for Lidl-Trek.
“As an American group, the Maryland Biking Traditional is a crucial race for us. Actually, it’s the one probability we’ve got to race in america. Each version offers thrilling racing, and we’ve got nice recollections of Mattias Skjelmose profitable in 2023. Hopefully we are going to see a Lidl-Trek rider on the highest step of the rostrum as soon as extra this 12 months.”
Earlier editions of the Maryland Biking Traditional ran in 2022 and 2023, with Sep Vanmarke (Israel-Premier Tech) and Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) profitable the primary two thrilling occasions, respectively. In each situations, the race broke aside early throughout Baltimore’s rolling terrain earlier than the peloton reached a quick ending circuit round Baltimore’s internal harbour.
Dwars door Vlaanderen winner Neilson Powless (EF Schooling-EasyPost) has completed on the rostrum in each the 2022 and 2023 editions of the Maryland race, and followers will probably be eager to see their American star return to race on house soil.
“Our aim stays to area a high-level area and showcase skilled biking to American spectators and a world tv viewers. It is a uncommon alternative to see a number of the world’s stars race on American soil. We’re at the moment in negotiations with different top-level groups for the race,” stated Steve Brunner, the manager director for the race.
In 2024, the race was compelled to cancel as a result of Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, leaving followers anxious regardless of organisers’ guarantees of a comeback. Lately, too many American races have gone on hiatus solely to fade for good. However the 2025 version goals to be its most bold but, with a stronger European presence, two races, and renewed pleasure to convey world-class competitors again to U.S. soil.
Keep tuned for extra roster bulletins for the lads’s and ladies’s races, within the coming week.
