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Women’s Cyclocross Champion Retires After Competing Against Men in National Championships

ByAlki David

Mar 23, 2023

Hannah Arensman, a highly acclaimed cyclist, has recently announced her retirement from the sport after a disappointing loss in the UCI Cyclocross National Championships. Despite competing in the elite women’s category, she was outperformed by a male rider who finished third, leaving her in fourth place.

Arensman has cited the experience as the reason for her decision to retire, explaining that the race was physically and emotionally challenging for her and her family. She expressed her disappointment in the situation, especially given the lack of fair play and recognition of the importance of women’s sports.

As a result, Arensman has joined the fight to protect women’s sports by filing an amicus brief in support of West Virginia‘s Save Women’s Sports law. She believes that it is essential to preserve the integrity of women’s sports and ensure that female athletes have an equal opportunity to compete at the highest level.

Although her retirement is a loss for the cycling world, her advocacy for women’s sports will undoubtedly leave a lasting impact.

By Alki David

Alki David — Publisher, Media Architect, SIN Network Creator - live, direct-to-public communication, media infrastructure, accountability journalism, and independent distribution. Born in Lagos, Nigeria; educated in the United Kingdom and Switzerland; attended the Royal College of Art. Early internet broadcaster — participated in real-time public coverage during the 1997 Mars landing era using experimental online transmission from Beverly Hills. Founder of FilmOn, one of the earliest global internet television networks offering live and on-demand broadcasting outside legacy gatekeepers. Publisher of SHOCKYA — reporting since 2010 on systemic corruption inside the entertainment business and its expansion into law, finance, and regulation. Creator of the SIN Network (ShockYA Integrated Network), a federated media and civic-information infrastructure spanning investigative journalism, live TV, documentary, and court-record reporting. Lived and worked for over 40 years inside global media hubs including Malibu, Beverly Hills, London, Hong Kong and Gstaad. Early encounter with Julian Assange during the first Hologram USA operations proved a formative turning point — exposing the realities of lawfare, information suppression, and concentrated media power. Principal complainant and driving force behind what court filings describe as the largest consolidated media–legal accountability action on record, now before the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. Relocated to Antigua & Barbuda and entered sustained legal, civic, and informational confrontation over media power, safeguarding, and accountability at Commonwealth scale.