Defending champion Katie Compton (Rabobank-Giant) exploded away from the women’s field on the first lap of Sunday’s U.S. cyclo-cross championship in Wisconsin, soloing to her eighth consecutive national title in commanding fashion.
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Meredith Miller (California Giant-Specialized) led the bunch off the starting grid and into the softening 2-mile course at Badger Prairie State Park. But Compton wasn’t interested in seeing anyone else at the front of the national-championship race — she lit it up and quickly set about building her advantage.
At mid-lap Compton already had 11 seconds over Miller and Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com teammates Nicole Duke and Kaitlin Antonneau. Then Miller laid it down and the two Cannondale riders got away from her.
But they were already 19 seconds down on Compton, and as the defending champ hit the line to begin her second lap she was 26 seconds ahead of Duke, who briefly found herself chasing alone after Antonneau hit the deck and snapped the derailleur off her main bike.
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