Hannah Otto (née Finchamp) received the ladies’s division of the Leadville Path 100 MTB on Saturday, driving solo throughout the road in a time of seven hours, 24 minutes, 7 seconds.
Two-time champion Rose Grant completed second, 5:30 off the tempo. Haley Smith completed properly again in third with Sarah Sturm in fourth. Alexis Skarda, who was the early chief, completed fifth, 21 minutes behind.
Otto took command within the remaining half of the race and sailed away the highest contenders. The five-time US collegiate mountain bike champion and present World Cup competitor entered Leadville in tenth place within the Life Time Grand Prix introduced by Mazda. She was seventh within the ladies’s division of Crusher within the Tushar in July and in Fuego XC 80k in April.
All the ladies within the prime 5 at Leadville are in competition for the Life Time collection. The large winners are Smith and Sturm, who’re second and third within the collection, respectively, and gained worthwhile factors forward of collection chief Sofia Gomez Villafane. There are two occasions remaining within the off-road collection, 40-mile Chequamegon MTB Competition in Cable, Wisconsin on September 17 and 100-mile Huge Sugar Gravel in Bentonville, Arkansas on October 22.
The way it unfolded
The Leadville Path 100 MTB lined an out-and-back, 104-mile course of off-road terrain – tough forest service roads, double and single observe grime tracks – with a complete of 13,129- ft of elevation achieve. The mass begin for ladies and men within the Rocky Mountains mining city started at 10,152 ft, making it one of the crucial difficult mountain bike endurance occasions on the calendar.
Alexis Skarda had an early lead for the ladies of virtually one minute on the outbound climb to Carter Summit, with a foursome chasing – Sofia Gomez Villafane, Hannah Otto, Sarah Sturm and Rose Grant.
Skarda continued along with her lead as soon as 26 miles had been lined and she or he descended the Pipeline part, with Gomez Villafane trailing solo at 1:38 again. Otto, Sturm and Grant labored collectively however had been one other 42 seconds behind the Life Time Grand Prix collection chief. The chasers included Haley Smith, Ellen Campbell, Evelyn Dong and Crystal Anthony virtually three minutes behind the chief.
After two and half hours of racing, Skarda held her lead of virtually three minutes to Otto and Sturm, Gomez Villafane and Grant.
On the return journey to Twin Lakes and 40 miles to go, Skarda was joined by Otto. Chasing to shut a 2:50 hole was Rose Grant on their lonesome. Haley Smith rode in fourth place, virtually two minutes behind the defending champion after which Sturm one other minute down.
On the pavement part that rises on the climb out of Twin Lakes, Otto took the lead and with 25 miles to go Otto had put 2:40 into her lead over Skarda. In the meantime, Grant had closed down the hole behind Skarda to 1 minute.
Heading to the western facet of Turquoise Lake towards Carter Summit, Grant had moved into second place however had 3:56 between her and the race chief. Smith started to make inroads towards a podium spot, now 1:36 behind Skarda. Nobody would achieve any floor on the hovering Otto.
| Pos. | Rider Title (Nation) Crew | End result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hannah Otto (USA) | 7:24:07 |
| 2 | Rose Grant (USA) | 0:05:30 |
| 3 | Haley Smith (CAN) | 0:17:46 |
| 4 | Sarah Sturm (USA) | 0:18:47 |
| 5 | Alexis Skarda (USA) | 0:21:31 |
| 6 | Ellen Campbel (USA) | 0:24:05 |
| 7 | Paige Onweller (USA) | 0:25:06 |
| 8 | Kristen Legan (USA) | 0:27:09 |
| 9 | Melisa. Rollions (USA) | 0:28:13 |
| 10 | Crystal Anthony (USA) | 0:31:11 |
