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Pan-American Championships - C
Aguascalientes, Mexico, October 28 - 30, 2005
Seven Pan Am medals for U.S. mountain bikers
USA Cycling
The U.S. National Mountain Bike Team collected seven medals over the weekend – two of them gold – at the Pan American Mountain Bike Championships outside Mexico City.
Mary McConneloug (Chilmark, Mass.) rode to a Pan American Championship in the elite women's race to lead an all-American podium that included a silver medal performance from Kelli Emmett (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and a bronze medal effort from Willow Koerber (Ashville, N.C.).
"I was leading in the first lap and then flatted. Kelli, Willow and the Canadian rider passed me, and it took me awhile to get back on. Finally in the last lap I was able to pull ahead and get a little gap. I am thrilled with the win and I think this was a great cultural experience for everyone." McConneloug said afterwards.
McConneloug clocked a time of one hour, 55 minutes over the 30km course to finish with a 51-second advantage over Emmett and a 1:40 buffer on Koerber. Chloe Forsman (Boulder, Colo.) earned a second Pan American title for the U.S. squad with a victory in the junior women's race. Forsman bested Ecuador's Alexandra Serrano by nearly four minutes in the 20km contest and worked her way into the 8th position of the elite women's race by the time she finished after starting two minutes behind the elite field.
In elite men's competition, reigning U.S. national champion Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (Boulder, Colo.) rode to a silver medal behind winner Deiber Esquivel of Costa Rica while compatriot Michael Broderick (Chilmark, Mass.) captured the bronze, in what was essentially a four-man race between the top-three and Todd Wells of Durango, CO. Wells proved he was in form for his upcoming cyclocross races by running his bike into fourth place after a mechanical in the last lap.
USA Cycling U23 National Team member Sam Schultz (Missoula, Mont.) rounded out the medal count for the U.S. squad with a silver medal in the men's U23 race. Schultz finished second to Emmanuel Valencia of Mexico.
Results
Cross Country Elite women 1 Mary McConneloug (USA) 1.55.35 2 Kelli Emmet (USA) 0.51 3 Williw Koerber (USA) 1.40 4 Patricia Singlair (Canada) 2.49 5 Catherine Prendel (Canada) 20.16 6 Lorenza Morfin (Mexico) 20.18 Junior women 1 Chloe Forsman (USA) 1.24.54 2 Alexandra Serrano (Ecuador) 3.44 3 Gabriela Placres (Mexico) 4.26 4 Paula Quiroz (Chile) 8.27 5 Karina Rubio (Mexico) 10.28 Elite men 1 Deiber Esquivel (Costa Rica) 2.03.23 2 Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (USA) 3 Michael Broderick (USA) 4 Todd Wells (USA) Under 23 men 1 Emmanuel Valencia (Mexico) 2.10.46 2 Sam Schultz (USA) 3 Max Plaxton (Canada) Relay 1 Mexico (Octavio Vicente, Lorenza Morfin, Emmanuel Valencia y Carlos Mayoral) 2 Chile (Javier Puschel, Francisca Campos, Enrique Rivera y Cristóbal Silva) 3 Argentina (Sebastián Blanco, Noelia Rodríguez, Carlos Gennero y Dario Gasco) Master 30 1 Valentín Herrera (Mexico) 2 Antonio Martín del Campo (Mexico) 3 Daniel Moreno (Venezuela) Master 40 1 Luis Rosendo Ramos (Mexico) 2 Paul Becker (Mexico) 3 Francisco Mondragón (Mexico) Down Hill Elite Men 1 Mario Jarrin (Ecuador) 2.40,406 (67.329 km/h) 2 Markolf Berchtold (Brasil) 0.13,861 3 Antonio Leyva (Chile) 0.18,390 4 Oscar Miguel Yunge (Chile) 0.19,372 5 Santiago De Santiago (Argentina) 0.19,862 6 Sebastian Vazquez (Chile) 0.21,981 7 Andres Sotomayor (Ecuador) 0.25,398 8 Guillermo De Uslar (Mexico) 0.26,506 9 José Luis Perez (Mexico) 0.37,708 10 Javier Santiago (Argentina) 0.39,283 11 Ivan Quintana (Ecuador) 0.39,751 12 Abraham Luzania (Mexico) 0.41,857 13 Pablo Cingolani (Argentina) 0.43,087 14 Israel Gonzalez (Mexico) 0.46,492 15 Diego Naranjo (Ecuador) 0.49,638 16 Luis Felipe Caballero (Mexico) 0.55,547 17 Pedro Muriel (Mexico) 1.12,620 18 Axayacatl Mosqueda (Mexico) 1.57,355 19 Octavio Ortiz (Mexico) 2.19,295 20 Francisco Daniel Trinidad (Mexico) 2.59,385 21 Keneth Zamora (Guatemala) 21.43,741 DNF Jacaobo Calderon (Guatemala) DNF Daniel Perez (Guatemala) Elite Women 1 Bernardita Pizarro (Chile) 3.28,341 (51.838 km/h) 2 Patricia Loureiro (Brasil) 0.39,592 3 Julia Lasso Equiguren (Ecuador) 1.00,578 4 Veronica Francisca Miranda (Chile) 1.13,124 Junior Men 1 Ivan Ortiz (Ecuador) 3.57,424 (45.488 km/h) 2 Jose Escudero (Ecuador) 0.00,024 3 Juan Sebastian (Mexico) 0.13,585 4 Mauricio Acuña (Chile) 0.14,174 5 Christian Ignacio Soto (Chile) 0.19,105 6 Mario Cornejo (Ecuador) 0.21,493 7 Jorge Alfredo Angel (Mexico) 0.22,721 8 Juan Vintimilla (Ecuador) 0.23,212 9 Luis Lancellotti (Brasil) 0.27,716 10 Patricio Pereira (Ecuador) 0.29,029 11 Pedro Armestro (Argentina) 0.31,200 12 Alan Jurado (Ecuador) 0.31,816 13 Javier Lopez (Mexico) 0.35,827 14 Juan Laylle (Guatemala) 0.39,034 15 Franklin Iza (Ecuador) 0.39,476 16 Diego Sarmiento (Peru) 0.43,603 17 Felipe Fernando Contreras (Chile) 0.45,730 18 Emanuel Riva (Argentina) 0.46,526 19 Mauro Paladino (Argentina) 0.52,541 20 Mauricio Luengas (Mexico) 0.53,226 21 José Eduardo Bautista (Mexico) 0.53,377 22 Pedro Sereno (Venezuela) 0.54,558 23 Diego Angel (Mexico) 0.55,224 24 Miguel Maldonado (Mexico) 1.01,769 25 Claudio Cagnasso (Venezuela) 1.08,836 26 Carlos Pastoriza (Argentina) 3.08,934 27 Jesús Rodriguez (Mexico) 14.13,840 28 Adhair Compus (Mexico) 15.03,430 DNS Arturo Pavia (Guatemala) DNS Giancarlos Strazza (Argentina) 4 Cross Elite Men 1 Mario Jarrin (Ecuador) 2 Markolf Berchtold (Brasil) 3 Antonio Leyva (Chile) 4 Ivan Quintana (Ecuador) 5 Sebastian Vazquez (Chile) 6 Santiago De Santiago (Argentina) 7 Pablo Cingolani (Argentina) 8 Hector Barreto (Mexico) Elite Women 1 Bernardita Pizzarro (Chile) 2 Patricia Loureiro (Brasil) 3 Julia Lasso Equiguren (Ecuador) 4 Veronica Miranda (Chile) Junior Men 1 Jose Escudero (Ecuador) 2 Luis Lancellotti (Brasil) 3 Christian Soto (Chile) 4 Ivan Ortiz (Ecuador) 5 Felipe Contreras (Chile) 6 Mauricio Acuña (Chile) 7 Emanuel Riva (Argentina) 8 Mario Cornejo (Ecuador) Masters 1 Carlos Jasso (Mexico) 2 Humberto Jaquez (Mexico) 3 Felipe Vazquez (Chile) 4 Carlos Garcia (Mexico) 5 Eduardo Stain (Peru)
