2013 USA Pro Cycling Challenge
| 2012–13 UCI America Tour | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tejay van Garderen in the yellow jersey.
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| Dates | August 19–25, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 573 mi (922.2 km) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 22h 38' 48" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Tejay van Garderen (USA)
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(BMC Racing Team) |
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| Second |
 Mathias Frank (SUI)
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(BMC Racing Team) | |
| Third |
Tom Danielson (USA)
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Mountains |
Matt Cooke (USA)
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(Jamis–Hagens Berman) |
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Youth |
 Lachlan Morton (AUS)
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(Garmin–Sharp) |
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Sprints |
 Peter Sagan (SVK)
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(Cannondale) |
The 2013 USA Pro Cycling Challenge is the third edition of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge stage race. Once again, the race was included on the UCI America Tour, with a UCI classification of 2.HC. As such, the race was only open to teams on the UCI Pro Tour, UCI Professional Continental and UCI Continental circuits. The race took place between August 19–25, 2013 as a seven-day, seven-stage race, traversing the state of Colorado. The 2013 USA Pro Cycling Challenge was one of six UCI-ranked stage races in the United States in 2013, and one of two (along with the 2013 Tour of California) that attracted multiple UCI ProTeams to compete.
American Tejay van Garderen of BMC Racing Team won the overall title after finishing lower on the podium the previous two years.
In July, the USA Pro Cycling Challenge announced a sixteen-team field, made up of seven UCI ProTeams (up from six), four UCI Professional Continental Teams (down from six) and five UCI Continental Teams (up from four), thus giving the race a total of sixteen-teams (steady from 2012). In total, ten of the sixteen-teams that competed in 2013 were invited to return to this event, as well as Argos–Shimano, Bissell, and Jelly Belly–Kenda, who competed in the 2011 edition. UCI ProTeams Argos–Shimano, Cannondale, RadioShack–Leopard, Saxo–Tinkoff, and Team Sky are based in the Netherlands, Italy, Luxembourg, Denmark, and the United Kingdoms, respectively; UCI Professional Continental Team Champion System is based in China, while its counterpart, Colombia is based in Columbia. The remaining nine teams are based in the United States.
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