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Norba's road arm, known as USA Cycling, announced today its first lot of nominations to the U.S. National Team for the 2008 Cyclocross World Championships in Treviso, Italy, January 26-27.
 
Sixteen athletes were nominated to the squad in the elite women's, U23 men's and junior men's categories based on their competitive performance over the course of the last year.
 
After capturing a silver medal at the 2007 world championships, Katie Compton (Colorado Springs, CO) received an automatic nomination and will lead the elite women's squad. Compton is currently ranked second in the world behind Dutchwoman Daphny van den Brand and earlier this year captured the biggest win of her career with a victory at the third round of the Cyclocross World Cup in the Netherlands.
 
Discretionary nominations to the elite women's team went to Rachel Lloyd (Fairfax, CA), Kerry Barnholt (Boulder, CO), Sue Butler (Portland, OR) and Amy Dombroski (Boulder, CO).
 
As the highest-ranked American in the final overall U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross standings, Georgia Gould (Ketchum, ID) also received an automatic nomination but declined participation.
 
In the U23 men's division, Bjorn Selander (Hudson, WI) earned the only automatic nomination to the team with his victory last weekend at the USA Cyclocross National Championships.
 
Discretionary selections to the men's U23 team went to last year's World Championship Silver Medalist in the junior men's category, Daniel Summerhill (Centennial, CO), as well as Collegiate National Champion Jamie Driscoll (Jericho, VT), Chance Noble (Camarillo, CA) and Nichloas Weighall (Mill Creek, WA/Rad Racing Northwest).
 
As the junior men's national champion, Luke Keough (Sandwich, MA) earned the sole automatic nomination to the junior men's team.

 

Steve Fisher (Lynwood, WA), Eric Emsky (Fall City, WA), Gavin Mannion (Dedham, MA) and Zach McDonald (Bainbridge, Island, WA) earned discretionary nominations to the junior men's squad.
 
The elite men's nominations will be announced on January 14 following the next two rounds of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup in Belgium and France.
 
U.S. CYCLOCROSS WORLD'S NOMINATIONS
ELITE WOMEN
Katie Compton...Spike Shooter
Georgia Gould...Luna Chix*
Rachel Lloyd...Proman-Paradigm
Kerry Barnholt...Tokyo Joe's-Van Dessel
Sue Butler...River City Bicycles
Amy Dombroski...Velo Bella-Kona
U23
Bjorn Selander...VMG Racing
Jamie Driscoll...Fiordifrutta
Daniel Summerhill...Clif Bar Development
Chance Noble...California Giant
Nick Weighall...Rad Racing Northwest
JUNIOR
Luke Keough...CL Noonan
Steve Fisher...Rad Racing Northwest
Eric Emsky...Rad Racing Northwest
Gavin Mannion...Hot Tubes
Zach McDonald...Oh Boy Oberto-Redline