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 USPRO Criterium Championship - 1.3Chicago, USA, August 17, 2003Startlist    Schedule 
  and results    Photography All set for Downers Grove
   Vogels won last year ahead of Monahan, 
  who was crowned national championPhoto: © Ken Carl
  
    |  |  Sunday, August 17 marks the annual USPRO Criterium Championships, held once 
  again in Downers Grove, Illinois. With $20,000 in total prize money, the 100 
  km men's event is the main race of the program, which also includes the USCF 
  Women's and USCF Elite Men's championships. The USPRO race is ranked as UCI 
  1.3, carrying 60 UCI points for the winner. As is the case with the USPRO Road 
  Championships in Philadelphia, the race is open to non-U.S. riders, meaning 
  that the first rider across the line will not necessarily be the national champion. 
  The race is open to UCI Division I-III trade teams, and there are 10 teams 
  down to start: Sierra Nevada/Clif bar, Prime Alliance, Sportsbook.com, U.S. 
  Postal Service, Schroeder Iron, Saturn, Ofoto-Lombardi Sports, Jelly Belly/Carlsbad 
  Clothing, Navigators and 7UP-Maxxis.   Defending national champion Kevin Monahan will line up backed by a strong 
  7Up-Maxxis team, which includes John Lieswyn, Dan Schmatz, and Greg Henderson. 
  They will face plenty of opposition from the likes of the Navigators' Marty 
  Nothstein and Vasilli Davidenko, Saturn's Ivan Dominguez and Chris Horner, Schroeder's 
  Chann McRae, Miguel Meza and Gordon McCauley, US Postal's Antonio Cruz, and 
  Prime Alliance's Danny Pate, Jonas Carney and David Clinger.   The day's program will see the USCF Women's Championships run on Sunday morning 
  starting at 10:00am over 31 laps (50 km) of the 1.6 km course. This will be 
  followed by the USCF Elite Men's Championship at 11:30am over 50 laps (80 km), 
  then the USPRO Men at 3:45pm over 62 laps (100 km) Races & Results |  |