USA Cycling pro championships leaving Chattanooga

Lindsay Bayer racing for Pepper Palace Pro Cycling presented by The Happy Tooth climbs Kent Street during the 2015 Volkswagen USA Cycling Pro Road & Time Trial National Championships in Chattanooga on Monday May 25, 2015.
Lindsay Bayer racing for Pepper Palace Pro Cycling presented by The Happy Tooth climbs Kent Street during the 2015 Volkswagen USA Cycling Pro Road & Time Trial National Championships in Chattanooga on Monday May 25, 2015.

After a three year run with Chattanooga as the host city, USA Cycling announced Thursday that the Volkswagen USA Cycling Professional Road and Time Trial Championships will move to Winston-Salem, N.C. for 2016 and 2017.

The event moved to Chattanooga in 2013 with the men and women pros competing together and for equal prize money for the first time ever at the Memorial Day weekend event.

The final edition of the competition in Chattanooga took place last weekend.

USA Cycling will be expanding with the move to North Carolina.

The event will become a nine-day celebration of cycling with the pro road time trial championships joining the USA Cycling Masters Road National Championships and ending on Memorial Day with the Winston-Salem Cycling Classic UCI road race.

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