Emily Ehrlich and Artem Shmidt win US national TT titles

Ehrlich beats Faulkner while neo pro Schmidt rides to debut elite national championship win

Emily Ehrlich (Virginia’s Blue Ridge Twenty 28) and Artem Shmidt (Ineos Grenadiers) won the elite time trial races at the USA Cycling Pro Road National Championships on Wednesday, May 21.

The elite women set off under Charleston, West Virginia’s cloudy skies in the morning, and Lisa Becharas (Real Triathlon Squad) set a benchmark time early with a time of 45:19, but the pre-race favourites were still to come.

Ehrlich, a 31-year-old Detroit native, was the fastest through the intermediate split after the first lap of the flat, out-and-back-style course. Following her split time were favourites Kristen Faulkner (EF Education Oatly) and Alia Shafi (Fount Cycling Guild).

Faulkner could not match Ehrlich’s pace and finished 27 seconds off the winning time of 43:04. Shafi finished third, 1:32 behind Ehrlich.

“This is everything for me,” Ehrlich said. “If there was one thing in cycling when I started riding and racing, what I wanted to do, this was it. So this really feels like a culmination of it all for me.”

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