{"id":60605,"date":"2014-03-30T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T02:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/?p=60605"},"modified":"2014-03-30T22:17:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T02:17:49","slug":"sweeps-top-podium-spots-2014-north-american-continental-bmx-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/2014\/03\/30\/sweeps-top-podium-spots-2014-north-american-continental-bmx-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. sweeps top podium spots at the 2014 North American Continental BMX Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supercross racing continued at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif.,\u00a0on Sunday\u00a0with the 2014 UCI North American Continental BMX Championships. Americans\u00a0<strong>Connor Fields<\/strong>(Henderson, Nev.\/Chase BMX),\u00a0<strong>Alise Post<\/strong>\u00a0(Saint Cloud, Minn.\/Redline Bicycles) and\u00a0<strong>Shealen Reno<\/strong>\u00a0(Plano, Texas\/Hyper Bicycles) doubled up on the wins after their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usacycling.org\/fields-and-post-highlight-the-2014-elite-bmx-national-championships.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">victories at the Elite BMX Nationals<\/a>\u00a0the day before.\u00a0<strong>Sean Gaian<\/strong>\u00a0(Santee, Calif.\/Factory GT Bicycles) topped the junior elite men\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<h3>Junior Elite Men\u2019s Race<\/h3>\n<p>Paired together in all three of their motos, Gaian finished second to yesterday\u2019s junior elite men\u2019s national champion\u00a0<strong>Collin Hudson<\/strong>\u00a0(Longmont, Colo.\/Redline Bicycles) each time. But in the main it was Gaian who won when it most counted. Coming from third position, he made his move on the inside of Hudson on the final turn. The 2013 junior supercross world champ accelerated to the line to take the win. Hudson followed, with\u00a0<strong>Alden Volle<\/strong>\u00a0(Penryn, Calif.\/Dan\u2019s Comp) riding to third.<\/p>\n<h3>Women\u2019s Races<\/h3>\n<p>The elite women\u2019s motos saw Post,\u00a0<strong>Felicia Stancil<\/strong>\u00a0(Lake Villa, IL\/Factory GT Bicycles) and\u00a0<strong>Dani George<\/strong>\u00a0(Palmdale, Calif.\/SupercrossBMX.com) each win two of their three heats. In the main, the first turn proved to be the decisive spot on the track. Post led the pack out of the gate, with\u00a0<strong>Brooke Crain<\/strong>\u00a0(Visalia, Calif.\/Haro Bicycles) battling Stancil for the second spot. Crain took the edge coming into the second straight, and followed Post to the line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shealen Reno<\/strong>\u00a0(Plano, Texas\/Hyper Bicycles) finished fifth among the elite women, but topped Mexico\u2019s Jhoanna Hernandez in the junior elite women\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<h3>Elite Men\u2019s Race<\/h3>\n<p>Fields, the newly-minted elite men\u2019s national champ, won all three of his motos to advance to the semifinals. Also looking tough to beat early on was Canadian Tory Nyhaug (Coquitlam, BC, Canada\/Redline Bicycles), who won each of his motos, as well. The two riders then topped their respective semis to head to the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in yesterday\u2019s nationals main, Fields didn\u2019t have to come from behind for his win. He took the lead down the first straight and held it through the finish line.\u00a0<strong>Jared Garcia<\/strong>\u00a0(Victorville, Calif.\/SupercrossBMX.com) slotted himself in the second spot behind Fields around the first turn and was able to hold off Nyhaug to secure the runner-up position, with Nyhaug taking third.<\/p>\n<p>Supercross racing will pick up again in a few weeks, when riders will contest the first UCI Supercross World Cup of the season\u00a0April 18-19\u00a0in Manchester, England.<\/p>\n<p>For more news, photo galleries and results from this weekend\u2019s racing, visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usacycling.org\/2014\/elite-bmx-nationals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014 USA Cycling Elite BMX National Championships page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2014 UCI North American Continental BMX Championships<\/strong><br \/>\nSunday, March 30, 2014<br \/>\nChula Vista, California<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/USACWeb\/forms\/bmx\/2014-UCI-N-American-Contl-BMX-Champs-Results.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FULL RESULTS<\/a>\u00a0[<em>PDF<\/em>] \u2502\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usacycling.org\/usacgallery\/album\/bmx\/2014-bmx-albums\/2014-uci-north-american-continental-bmx-championships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elite Men<\/strong><br \/>\n1.\u00a0<strong>Connor Fields<\/strong>\u00a0(Henderson, Nev.\/Chase BMX)<br \/>\n2.\u00a0<strong>Jared Garcia<\/strong>\u00a0(Victorville, Calif.\/SupercrossBMX.com)<br \/>\n3. Tory Nyhaug (Coquitlam, BC, Canada\/Redline Bicycles)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elite Women<\/strong><br \/>\n1.\u00a0<strong>Alise Post<\/strong>\u00a0(Saint Cloud, Minn.\/Redline Bicycles)<br \/>\n2.\u00a0<strong>Brooke Crain<\/strong>\u00a0(Visalia, Calif.\/Haro Bicycles)<br \/>\n3.\u00a0<strong>Felicia Stancil<\/strong>\u00a0(Lake Villa, IL\/Factory GT Bicycles)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Junior Elite Men<\/strong><br \/>\n1.\u00a0<strong>Sean Gaian<\/strong>\u00a0(Santee, Calif.\/Factory GT Bicycles)<br \/>\n2.\u00a0<strong>Collin Hudson<\/strong>\u00a0(Longmont, Colo.\/Redline Bicycles)<br \/>\n3.\u00a0<strong>Alden Volle<\/strong>\u00a0(Penryn, Calif.\/Dan\u2019s Comp)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Junior Elite Women<\/strong><br \/>\n1.\u00a0<strong>Shealen Reno<\/strong>\u00a0(Plano, Texas\/Hyper Bicycles)<br \/>\n2. Jhoanna Hernandez (Mexico)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supercross racing continued at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., on Sunday with the 2014 UCI North American Continental BMX Championships<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[83],"tags":[5584,9022,6807,7300,7133,1909,1654,7363,6809],"class_list":["post-60605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","tag-alise-post","tag-brooke-crain","tag-chula-vista","tag-connor-fields","tag-gt-bicycles","tag-national-championships","tag-north-america","tag-olympic-training-center","tag-supercross"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}