USA Cycling sends four to track worlds

USA Cycling will send four riders to the upcoming 2009 UCI Track World Championships in Pruszkow, Poland, March 25-29. Headlining the team will be Taylor Phinney, who broke two national records at the Copenhagen World Cup last month. He clocked in a 4:15.223 in the 4km pursuit and a 1:01.641 in the kilometre time trial. Both efforts earned him an automatic start at the world championships.

The 18-year-old phenom will also compete in the omnium, a five-race event which consists of a 200-meter time trial, a 7.5-kilometre scratch race, a 15-kilometre points race, a 3,000-meter individual pursuit and a kilometre time trial.

The men's mass-start endurance races will be contested Daniel Holloway and Colby Pearce. The two will team up for the Madison, while each will also contest an individual event – Holloway the scratch race and Pearce the points race.

Shelley Olds is the lone women's selection. After winning a bronze medal in the points race at the World Cup finale last month, Olds earned a discretionary selection to compete in both the points and scratch race events.