January 10, 2007 – USA Cycling announced today automatic and discretionary nominations in the elite men’s category for the 2007 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships scheduled for January 27-28 in Hooglede-Gits, Belgium. Three athletes met automatic qualification criteria, while three more earned discretionary picks. The top-three men ranked in the top 50 of the latest UCI standings – Ryan Trebon (Ventura, Calif./Kona), Tim Johnson (Middleton, Mass./Cyclocrossworld.com) and Barry Wicks (Corvallis, Ore./Kona) – all met the first condition with a top-50 international ranking.

Trebon also captured a national title at last month’s USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships and won the overall Crank Brothers U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclo-cross series. Ranked 19th in the world, Trebon joins Johnson and Wicks who are ranked 31st and 47th respectively. Discretionary picks include Jonathan Page (Northfield, N.H./Cervelo), Erik Tonkin (Portland, Ore./Kona) and Tristan Schouten (Sheboygan, Wis./Trek-Volkswagen). Page and Tonkin have each posted impressive results in Europe this season with Page scoring a second-place finish at Nordzeecross, a UCI category-two race in Middelekerke, Belgium last month and Tonkin placing 16th at a similar event in St. Niklaas, Belgium. Schouten’s success this season was all domestic based with a 15th-place finish at the national championships and several top-ten finishes in UCI-sanctioned races throughout America.