USA Cycling athlete heading for World Championships in Scotland. The race roster includes Park City's Haley Batten. Photo: Courtesy of USA Cycling

PARK CITY, Utah — 36 athletes have been selected to the Mountain Bike team competing at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. The event will make history as the first World Championship where 13 events will be contested across seven disciplines in ten days.

Athletes will compete in the downhill races on August 3-5, Marathon on August 6, and Cross-Country events on August 8-12, 2023. This event is one of the first automatic Olympic qualifiers for the Cross-County event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

All of the Elite Cross-Country racers are veterans of the Mountain Bike World Championships roster. With Olympic qualifying on the line, all sic elite racers, Christopher Blevins (Durango, Colo.; Specialized Factory Racing) Haley Batten (Park City, Utah; Specialized Factory Racing), Savilia Blunk (Inverness, Calif.; Rockrider FORD Racing Team), Kate Courtney (Kentfield, Calif.; SCOTT-SRAM Factory Racing), Gwendalyn Gibson (Ramona, Calif.; Trek Factory Racing) and Kelsey Urban (Kentfield, Calif.; Team 31), will be vying for a podium position.