Jingle Cross

Jingle Cross

Race details
Region	Iowa City, United States
Discipline	Cyclo-cross
Competition	UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup
Web site	jinglecross.com
History
First edition	2007 (2007)
Editions	13 (as of 2019)
Women's history
First edition	2007 (2007)
Editions	13 (as of 2019)

The Jingle Cross Cyclo-cross festival, also known as Jingle Cross, is a cyclo-cross race held annually in Iowa City, Iowa, and founded and directed by John Meehan. It began as a small grassroots race with a single day race in 2004 and 60 competitors and expanded to two days in 2006. The 2007 edition was the first year with UCI events and expanded to 3 days in 2009 adding night time racing. Jingle Cross upgraded to a UCI C1 event in 2010 and soon became the largest cyclo-cross festival in North America. Jingle Cross was part of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup from 2016 to 2019.. The 2020 edition of Jingle Cross was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jingle Cross is known for its challenging and holiday themed course. Originally held in December and late November, the venue and race course features many Christmas themed obstacles such as the Luge Run, Holly-Jolly Hell Hole, and Christmas Barn. The most famous element is Mt. Krumpit, a challenging climb which riders have to traverse in multiple locations as many as 3 times per lap. Jingle Cross moved to September in 2016 in order to be part of the UCI World Cup Series but kept the Holiday theme. Other events at the festival include an expanding gravel series and events for children. The festival also includes the Jingle Cross Doggy Cross, a cyclo-cross themed event for dogs, an international wine walk, an Oktoberfest, and a music festival.

Jingle Cross is owned and operated by Jingle Cross, Inc, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All proceeds from all festival activities are donated to local children's charities with the University of Iowa's Stead Family Children's Hospital as the primary beneficiary. Children from the hospital take part in the winner's podium celebration.

Past UCI men's winners[]

Race 1[]

Year	Winner	Second	Third
2007	Todd Wells	Chris Horner	Bjorn Selander
2008		Todd Wells
2009	Todd Wells
2010	Jamey Driscoll		Christopher Jones
2011	Jamey Driscoll	Christopher Jones	Timothy Johnson
2012	Jamey Driscoll	Christopher Jones	Ben Berden
2013	Jeremy Powers	Ben Berden	James Driscoll
2014	Ben Berden	Jamey Driscoll
2015	Jonathan Page		Allen Krughoff
2016	Marcel Meisen	Curtis White	Daniel Summerhill
2017	Laurens Sweeck	Quinten Hermans	Lars Van Der Haar
2018	Diether Sweeck	Stan Godrie
2019	Lander Loockx	Steve Chainel	Felipe Orts Lloret

Race 2[]

Year	Winner	Second	Third
2007	Todd Wells	Chris Horner
2008	Todd Wells
2009	Todd Wells
2010	Ryan Trebon	Todd Wells	Christopher Jones
2011	Todd Wells	Christopher Jones
2012	Timothy Johnson	Ryan Trebon	Ben Berden
2013	Jeremy Powers	Ben Berden	Adam Craig
2014	Jeremy Powers	Stephen Hyde	Logan Owen
2015	Jeremy Powers	Logan Owen	Stephen Hyde
World Cup
2016	Wout Van Aert	Kevin Pauwels	Laurens Sweeck
C1
2017	Gianni Vermeersch	Steve Chainel
World Cup
2018	Toon Aerts	Wout Van Aert	Michael Vanthourenhout
2019	Eli Iserbyt	Toon Aerts	Daan Soete

Race 3[]

Year	Winner	Second	Third
2009	Todd Wells
2010	Jamey Driscoll	Todd Wells	Christopher Jones
2011	Timothy Johnson	Jamey Driscoll	Todd Wells
2012	Timothy Johnson	Jamey Driscoll	Ben Berden
2013	Timothy Johnson	Jeremy Powers	Ben Berden
2014	Jamey Driscoll	Michael Van Den Ham	Kerry Werner
2015	Jamey Driscoll	Stephen Hyde	Jonathan Page
2016	David Van Der Poel	Gianni Vermeersch	Diether Sweeck
World Cup
2017	Mathieu Van Der Poel	Laurens Sweeck	Quinten Hermans
C1
2018	Nicolas Cleppe		Michael Boros
2019	Gianni Vermeersch	Vincent Baestaens	Jim Aernouts

Past UCI women's winners[]

Race 1[]

Year	Winner	Second	Third
2007		Susan Butler
2008
2009	Meredith Miller	Kaitlin Keough
2010	Meredith Miller		Amanda Miller
2011	Meredith Miller		Susan Butler
2012	Helen Wyman	Julie Krasniak	Jade Wilcoxson
2013	Katerina Nash	Amanda Miller	Meredith Miller
2014	Katerina Nash		Meredith Miller
2015	Caroline Mani	Kaitlin Keough	Katie Compton
2016	Helen Wyman	Elle Anderson	Emma White
2017	Kaitlin Keough	Katie Compton	Caroline Mani
2018	Helen Wyman	Lily Williams
2019

Race 2[]

Year	Winner	Second	Third
2007	Susan Butler		Sydney Brown
2008	Amanda Miller		Sydney Brown
2009	Meredith Miller
2010	Amanda Miller
2011		Meredith Miller	Susan Butler
2012	Helen Wyman	Amanda Miller	Carmen Small
2013	Katerina Nash	Catharine Pendrel	Elle Anderson
2014	Katerina Nash	Caroline Mani
2015	Katerina Nash	Caroline Mani	Katie Compton
World Cup
2016	Katie Compton	Caroline Mani	Kaitlin Keough
C1
2017		Clara Honsinger
World Cup
2018	Kaitlin Keough	Evie Richards	Marianne Vos
2019	Maghalie Rochette	Katerina Nash	Clara Honsinger

Race 3[]

Year	Winner	Second	Third
2009	Meredith Miller	Kaitlin Keough
2010	Amanda Miller	Meredith Miller
2011	Meredith Miller	Maureen Bruno Roy	Julie Krasniak
2012	Helen Wyman	Julie Krasniak	Amanda Miller
2013	Katerina Nash	Elle Anderson	Amanda Miller
2014		Katerina Nash
2015	Katerina Nash	Caroline Mani	Katie Compton
2016	Katerina Nash	Ellen Noble	Eva Lechner
World Cup
2017	Katerina Nash	Kaitlin Keough	Sanne Cant
C1
2018	Katerina Nash	Maghalie Rochette	Ellen Noble
2019	Maghalie Rochette	Katerina Nash	Evie Richards

References[]

• Men's results
• Women's results

External links[]

• Official website