Unbound 100 – Lauren Stephens and Elliott Baring victorious in Emporia

US gravel nationwide champion Lauren Stephens (Cynisca) gained the ladies’s division of the Life Time Unbound Gravel 100 whereas Elliott Baring (Baring Performance) outdueled 4 different riders to take the lads’s victory in Emporia, Kansas.

Stephens crossed the road on Commercial Street in downtown Emporia with a time of 5:06:40, good for the ladies’s title and inserting ninth total within the full 100-mile area. 

Flavia Oliveira Parks was second for the ladies in Unbound 100 – 15:54 again. Laura King third one other 10 minutes again.

The high girls’s contenders have been blended with the entrance group of males for the primary 20 miles, the divisions having a mixed mass begin for the 100-mile race. By the mid-way level, Stephens remained with the lads’s entrance group and eased away from the remainder of the ladies.

“It was a last-minute deal, we determined after Nationals that I used to be going to do the 100. This is the gravel that I really like, you are simply making an attempt to outlive and get good coaching in and have a superb day,” Stephens advised Cyclingnews on the end, celebrating her third victory within the 100-mile gravel race.

“Unfortunately I needed to cease and put air in my tire at 100k (40 miles to go), it was in a headwind on the street part. It appeared just like the group was going gradual after which that enticed somebody to assault. So I did not make it again to the entrance group. We ended up with a pleasant group of 5 – 6 who labored all collectively.”

Five males have been collectively on the entrance on the ultimate paved ascent of the race on Highland Hill. Baring launched his dash fourth wheel within the group within the last lengthy stretch on Commercial Street to edge Alexis Cartier (Cycles Region-360 Agency), who was second. Baring’s teammate Jim Snitzer was third.

Riders within the 100 mile race, truly 108.5 miles (175km) this 12 months, throughout the Flint Hills of Kansas began at 7:30 round an hour-and-a-half after the elite riders taking up the headline 200 mile race. The course, which used a part of the 200 occasion route, began and finishes in Emporia and included 3,651 toes (1,113m) of elevation achieve.

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