{"id":16124,"date":"2016-06-04T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=16124"},"modified":"2016-09-24T18:18:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T22:18:04","slug":"httpwww-thevalleyledger-comp1904-294","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=16124","title":{"rendered":"Valley Preferred Cycling Center 2016 UCI U.S. Sprint Gran Prix Season Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?page_id=12747\">Photos by:\u00a0Michael Hujsa<\/a> \\ The Valley Ledger<\/p>\n<div id=\"su_carousel_69f1bffea0ca8\" class=\"su-carousel su-carousel-centered su-carousel-pages-yes su-carousel-responsive-yes su-lightbox-gallery\" style=\"width:100%\" data-autoplay=\"3000\" data-speed=\"600\" data-mousewheel=\"true\" data-items=\"2\" data-scroll=\"1\"><div class=\"su-carousel-slides\"><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a 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href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?page_id=12747\">Photos by:\u00a0Michael Hujsa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Official Press Release from Valley Preferred Cycling Center:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TREXLERTOWN, Pa. \u2013 The Valley Preferred Cycling Center did not hold anything back on opening night. With 15 different nations, UCI points up for grabs, and post-race fireworks, the 2016 UCI U.S. Sprint Gran Prix was a season opener for the ages.<\/p>\n<p>Monique Sullivan of Canada left her mark on the history books as well as she set a new track record for the women\u2019s flying 200m during the morning session, clocking a 10.333, besting her teammate\u2019s Kate O\u2019Brien\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan beat Mandy Marquardt at night, as Sullivan defeated Marquardt in the women\u2019s sprint finals. On the men\u2019s side, it was Jair Tjon En Fa of Suriname who bested Shane Perkins of Australia in straight rides to claim the men\u2019s 2016 UCI U.S. Sprint Gran Prix championship.<\/p>\n<p>Missy Erickson, who recently transplanted to Mertztown, Pennsylvania from Los Angeles won the UCI 10km Scratch race. Erickson was making her return to the track after an extensive absence from competition due to injury. She also finished second in the women\u2019s 12 lap preme race.<\/p>\n<p>The other UCI points came in the men\u2019s UCI 15km scratch race where New Zealand\u2019s Luke Mudgway took first place. Stephen Hall of Australia finished second.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time defending rider of the year Colleen Hayduk won the women\u2019s 12 lap preme race, Bobby Lea won the men\u2019s SuperSprint Elimination, and Matt Rotherham won the men\u2019s 3km final.<\/p>\n<p>Service Electric\u2019s broadcast of Friday\u2019s action can be seen on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The night concluded with a fireworks extravaganza presented by the Schmoyer Funeral Home, the Trexler Funeral Home, and the J.S. Burkholder Funeral Home, which dazzled the thousands of fans.<\/p>\n<p>The World Series of Bicycling resumes on June 10 with the UCI Fastest Man on Wheels. Gates open at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>#ttown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Press Release Provided By:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Tyler Trumbauer<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> PR\/Communications Assistant<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Valley Preferred Cycling Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2957,69,2259,5,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling","category-in-the-valley","category-michael-hujsa-photography","category-photography","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2112.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}