{"id":42522,"date":"2022-01-26T22:08:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T05:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-national-criterium-series-announces-full-schedule\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:07:52","slug":"new-national-criterium-series-announces-full-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-national-criterium-series-announces-full-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"New national criterium series announces full schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=dc06efb4-b317-551a-8876-f03430a4f44a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1400\" height=\"743\" alt=\"Cyclists compete on a closed circuit in a criterium race. The full schedule for a new national criterium race was recently finalized. Courtesy\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cyclists compete on a closed circuit in a criterium race. The full schedule for a new national criterium race was recently finalized. Courtesy<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A core group of cycling stakeholders recently announced the full calendar of 10 events for a new national criterium series after announcing the founding events in December.<\/p>\n<p>The new events in the series include the Sunny King Criterium in Anniston, Alabama, the MVP Health Care Rochester Twilight Criterium in Rochester, New York, The Harlem Skyscraper Cycling Classic in Harlem, New York and part of Intelligentsia Cup in Lake Bluff, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to be back to racing and to be included in the inaugural year for this series,\u201d said Richard Cox, race director for the Harlem Skyscraper Classic. \u201cOur event has been around since 1973, the second oldest bike race in the U.S., and to be recognized as one of the top criteriums in America is a great honor. We\u2019re looking forward to welcoming teams, racers, and spectators from across the country to Harlem in June.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new series will offer $100,000 in overall prize money, equally split between the men and women in addition to individual event prize purses. All events in the series are committed to awarding equal prize money for the pro men\u2019s and women\u2019s fields in their prospective races. The additional information, including the official series name, is being finalized and will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Criteriums are bike races consisting of several laps on a closed course, typically around a city.<\/p>\n<p>2022 Schedule<\/p>\n<p>Event    Date     Location<\/p>\n<p>Sunny King Criterium    April 9     Anniston, AL<\/p>\n<p>MVP Health Care Rochester Twilight Criterium   May 21   Rochester, NY<\/p>\n<p>Saint Francis Tulsa Tough    June 10    Tulsa, OK<\/p>\n<p>Harlem Skyscraper Cycling Classic    June 19     Harlem, NY<\/p>\n<p>Bailey &amp; Glasser LLP Twilight Criterium    July 9    Boise, ID<\/p>\n<p>Salt Lake City Criterium    July 16    Salt Lake City, UT<\/p>\n<p>Intelligentsia Cup     July 30      Lake Bluff, IL<\/p>\n<p>Littleton Criterium    Aug. 6       Littleton, CO<\/p>\n<p>Momentum Indy      Aug. 27       Indianapolis, IN<\/p>\n<p>Bommarito Audi Gateway Cup .    Sept. 5     Saint Louis, MO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Littleton Criterium on 10-event schedule<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[657,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-42522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cycling","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85373,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42522\/revisions\/85373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42522"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=42522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}