Sunny King Criterium

The second stop of the American Criterium Cup was action packed.

The American Criterium Cup heads to Anniston, Alabama for its second stop.

Watch live USA Cycling Pro Road Tour action from Alabama at the Sunny King criterium, Saturday, April 13. Pro women race at 6:20 p.m. Eastern; Pro men start at 7:30 p.m.

Alexey Vermeulen takes his first pro win in Morocco and the overall race lead. Aqua Blue upset to miss out on California.

Watch live action from the Sunny King criterium, round two of USA Cycling's Pro Road Tour.

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U.S.-based UnitedHealthcare has a solid foothold on the American crit racing circuit

Australian and UnitedHealthcare rider reconfigured his season to focus more on criteriums

Tune into VeloNews.com for live coverage from the Sunny King Criterium on Saturday

Men's Results 1. Issac Howe, Kenda-5-Hour Energy Pro Cycling 2. Carlos Alzate, Team Exergy 3. Kyle Wamsley, Jamis-Sutter Home 4. Andrew Dahlheim, Bissell Pro Cycling 5. Luke Keough, Team Mountain Khakis-SmartStop Women's Results 1. Erica Allar, RideClean-Patentit.com 2. Jade Wilcoxson, Optum Pro Cycling-Kelly Benefit Strategies 3. Laura Van Gilder, Mellow Mushroom 4. Annie Ewart, Optum Pro Cycling-Kelly Benefit Strategies 5. Emma Grant, Optum Pro Cycling-Kelly Benefit Strategies

Images from the 2012 Sunny King Criterium

Watch the 2012 Sunny King Criterium live at VeloNews.com

Jonathan Cantwell wins the 60-lap men’s race at Saturday’s Sunny King Criterium in Anniston, Alabama.

Colavita-Forno d’Asolo dominated the women’s race at Saturday’s Sunny King Criterium in Anniston, Alabama.

Men

• 1. Jonathan Cantwell in 16:12.4
• 2. Michael Northey, at 16:12.6
• 3. Rahsaan Bahati, at 16:12.8
• 4. Patrick Bevin , Bissell/abg Cycling Club, at 16:13.0
• 5. Raymond Kreder, at 16:13.0

ANNISTON, Ala. (VN) — VeloNews.com will present a live video stream of Saturday's Sunny King Criterium, including all amateur and elite categories at the National Racing Calendar event.

When Tour of the Battenkill promoter Dieter Drake and USA Cycling staff traded barbs over rider invites in January, Mike Poe and the Sunny King Criterium were caught in the crossfire.

Fly V Australia’s Ben Kersten and Roosters' Nichole Wangsgard prevail in the hard-fought Sunny King NRC race in Alabama.

2010 Sunny King results

U.S. scene this week: Big time in Alabama, California & New York

The National Racing Calendar will roll into Anniston, Alabama and onto web-enabled devices during the Sunny King Criterium on April 17th.

The third stop on the 2010 NRC, Sunny King Criterium is in Anniston, Alabama.

Hilton Clarke stood on the top step of an all-Aussie podium at this year’s Sunny King Criterium in Anniston, Alabama, having secured Toyota-United’s second major victory of the day. Clarke’s teammate Henk Vogels took the win at the Tour of the Gila’s Downtown Silver City Criterium earlier in the day.

Two NRC events—The Nalley Historic Roswell Criterium and Sunny King Criterium—announce expanded Men’s & Women’s Pro/1 prize list in 2008

Thousands of people beat the barriers lining downtown Anniston, Alabama, on Saturday as AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork's Frank Travieso roared across the line to win the Sunny King Criterium. With several teams having abdicated their top-10 positions (among them Kodak Gallery's Dominique Rollin and Josh Thornton, Health Net's Kyle Gritters, and Rock Racing's Rahssan Bahati), the large crowd witnessed a decidedly revitalized field battling for points in the 2007 USA Crits Southeast series. Breakaway action came in the form of a quartet that included Yosvany Falcon