U.S. Paralympics Cycling Names 2025 Road World Championships Team
U.S. Paralympics Cycling has announced its 16-athlete roster for the 2025 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, scheduled for Aug. 28-31 in Ronse, Belgium. The team includes nine women and seven men selected based on their performances at two European stops on the 2025 UCI Para-cycling World Cup tour, where Team USA earned 29 medals.
“After a successful trip to Europe for the Belgian and Italian world cups, we’re incredibly excited about this Team USA roster for the first world championships in the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic quad,” said Ian Lawless, director of U.S. Paralympics Cycling. “We have athletes on this roster who topped the podium in Paris at the Paralympic Games last summer, but then we also have athletes who are brand new to our sport. We’re eager to see what they bring to the sport’s biggest stage this summer.”
The roster features Paris 2024 Paralympic champions Samantha Bosco of Claremont, California, and Kate Brim of Lowell, Michigan. Bosco started the 2025 season strong, earning gold and silver in world cup races in Ostend, Belgium. Brim, who won the time trial at her Paralympic debut in Paris 2024, missed the season-opening world cups due to injury but is expected to return for world championships. She will defend the WH2 road race and time trial rainbow jerseys she earned in Zurich in 2024.
Other Paris 2024 cycling medalists include Clara Brown of Falmouth, Maine; Dennis Connors of Beaverton, Oregon; and Elouan Gardon of Acme, Washington. Brown won gold in both her Ostend races, while Gardon captured gold in the MC5 time trial.
Grace Norman of Jamestown, Ohio, a Paris 2024 paratriathlon gold medalist, will make her cycling world championships debut after earning two medals in four WC4 world cup competitions. Fellow paratriathlete Emelia Perry of Philadelphia, a Paris 2024 Paralympian, also joins the roster in her first season as a para-cyclist.
Paralympic veterans on the team include eight-time Paralympic medalist Allison Jones of Colorado Springs, Colorado; two-time medalist Jamie Whitmore of Somerset, California; and Paralympic bronze medalists Ryan Pinney of Phoenix, Arizona, and Freddie de los Santos of Hopewell Junction, New York. Cody Wills of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who made his Paralympic debut in Paris, returns to world championships for the first time since 2023.
Andrea Cherniak Tyson of Goshen, Indiana, and Barry Wilcox of Port Angeles, Washington, will compete in their second career world championships. Wilcox won all four MH1 world cup races this season to claim the overall world cup title, while Cherniak Tyson earned silver and bronze in Maniago.
Two athletes will make their world championships debuts: WT2 rider Ellie Kennedy of Boise, Idaho, and MH5 handcyclist Josue Barron of Los Angeles, California. Barron won his first international medal with bronze in the time trial in Maniago, while Kennedy earned bronze in the road race.
The 2025 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships will serve as the final major international road competition for Team USA in 2025.
2025 U.S. Paralympics Cycling Road World Championships Team
Men:
- Josue Barron, MH5
- Dennis Connors, MT2
- Freddie De Los Santos, MH5
- Elouan Gardon, MC5
- Ryan Pinney, MH3
- Barry Wilcox, MH1
- Cody Wills, MH2
Women:
- Samantha Bosco, WC4
- Kate Brim, WH2
- Clara Brown, WC3
- Andrea Cherniak-Tyson, WC4
- Allison Jones, WC2
- Ellie Kennedy, WT2
- Grace Norman, WC4
- Emelia Perry, WH4
- Jamie Whitmore, WC3