Carson, CA, Thursday, October 1, 2009 - After collecting four medals at this year’s Pan American Track Cycling Championships, Higgins began her quest for the Stars-and-Stripes tonight at the first National Championship Omnium at the ADT Velodrome in Carson CA, winning what is to be the first of eight events she will contest at these national championships. Cari grabbed the sixth national title of her career in impressive fashion placing first in three of the five omnium events.
“This was the most important race for me this week because I feel like on the world level this is where I’m most competitive,” explained Higgins. “I really wanted to show what I can do in this event and the dominance of our entire ProMan squad.”
Theresa Cliff-Ryan took the Silver, Heather Jackson rode to an impressive Bronze and Anna Lang 4th. Higgins team mate, Christen King took fifth place honors.
ProMan Racing last year held the inaugural Women’s International Style Omnium at Hellyer Velodrome, San Jose CA. The Omnium consists of five events, 200m, 500m, 2k, points race and scratch race with riders scoring the same number of points as their finishing position in each race. So, five first places would give a final score of five points. Five second places would give a score of 10 points. Lowest points total wins. The Omnium is now a World Championship event and is being considered for the 2012 London Olympics.
Cari will be joined today by 2008 National Scratch race champ Shelley Olds, Christen King, Coryn Rivera, Hanan Alves-Hyde & Lorraine Jarvis. The squad will be racing 500m, team pursuit and scratch race.
Updates:
Cari Higgins & Lang took Gold in the Team Sprint.
Cari Higgins added to her medal count with a silver in the 500m.
Higgins, Olds and King raced the team pursuit to a silver medal.
Higgins & King took Silver in the Madison, with Shelley Olds and Coryn Rivera coming in 4th.
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