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La Ruta de los Conquistadores 2009

Date range:
November 11-14, 2009

November 11, Stage 1: Jaco Beach - San Jose 108km

Prado takes stage one to San Jose

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Cycling News
Published:
November 12, 2009, 11:13,
Updated:
November 13, 2009, 17:55

Prado takes GC lead ahead of Traiter and Heras, Rojas takes women's race

Heinz Soerweg, Manuel Prado, Marc Trayter

Heinz Soerweg, Manuel Prado, Marc Trayter

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Costa Rica's Manuel Prado claimed the opening stage of the La Ruta de los Conquistadores on Wednesday in Costa Rica. Prado took victory over Heinz Soerweg of Austria and Spaniard Marc Trayter.

Prado now leads the open men's general classification ahead of Trayter and Robert Heras, who finished in the fourth fastest time for the day.

Welcome to the jungle

A field of 225 racers from 17 different countries took to the trails of Costa Rica in on the 108 kilometre first stage of the La Ruta de los Conquistadores from Jaco Beach to San Jose.

An early lead out of the Carara National Park by three-time Vuelta a España winner Heras, one of the favorites for the race, was short-lived as he succumbed to the effect of a stomach bug picked up the night before the race.

Prado, Soerweg and Trayter initiated a rapid ascent towards the Central Valley, leaving behind Heras and Milton Ramos (Spain). The quintet had formed after a veritable mud bath in the village of Carara.

The steady tempo set by Prado and master's competitor Soerweg was enough to get them to the finish line within a second of one another. The win was Prado's first ever stage victory at La Ruta, and dedicated his triumph to his brother, who passed away three years ago.

Spain's Trayter and Heras followed in third and fourth place, respectively.

Fifth placed Jeremiah Bishop (Team Monavie-Cannondale) has returned to La Ruta and is determined to make up for the title he missed out on in 2007. Bishop had an unfortunate accident in 2007 which saw him hospitalised on stage three.

Bishop suffered mechanical problems towards the beginning of the race, but rallied strongly to finish the day fifth on open men's general classification.
 

Men's results
1 Manuel Prado 5:43:35  
2 Marc Traiter 0:06:45  
3 Roberto Heras 0:10:17  
4 Milton Ramos 0:14:15  
5 Jeremiah Bishop 0:18:05  
6 Alex Grant 0:18:06  
7 Tinker Juarez 0:21:09  
8 Juan Ignacio Mendez 0:33:42  
9 Benjamin Sonntag 0:35:38  
10 Deiber Esquivel 0:37:21  
11 Bart Gillespie 0:39:32  
12 Alban Figueroa 0:43:36  
13 Carlos Abellan Ossenbach 0:44:18  
14 Cory Travis 0:53:55  
15 Kris Janssens 1:01:42  
16 Luis Diego Sibaja    
17 Alfredo Acosta Gonzalez 1:01:47  
18 Sebastian Linares 1:46:27  
19 Brayan Alders 1:52:48  
20 Esteban Pacheco Quiros 2:05:25  
21 Eduard Hernandez Teixidor 2:09:44  
22 Oscar Marin Jimenez 2:17:13  
23 Arnoldo Loaiza 2:19:27  
24 Fabricio Brenes Quiros 2:20:25  
25 Samuel De La Sotta 2:21:44  
26 Simon Tremblay 2:23:15  
27 Jorge Eduardo Garcia Gomez 2:36:38  
28 Daniel Garcia Matamoros 3:06:01  
29 Adrian Alvarado Rossi 3:17:26  
30 Felipe Castro Barquero 3:17:36  
31 Daniel Muñoz 3:19:58  
32 Rodrigo Herrera 3:33:54  
33 Allan Padilla Umaña 4:02:33  
34 Jeffrey Collins 4:10:34  
35 Alexis Blanco Vargas 4:17:59  
36 Andres Rivera 4:19:59  
37 Antonio Jara Benavides 4:42:41  
38 Pablo Velasquez 4:42:55  
39 Roger Herrera 4:46:07  
40 Sebastian Conejo 4:53:27  
41 Javier Santana Bonilla    
42 Arnoldo Broutin 4:57:53  
43 Rafael Mesen Solis 5:13:02  
44 Heiner Mora 5:17:59  
DNS Peter Durham    
DNS Victor Garcia    
DNS Benjamin Gradle    
DNS Mario Fuentes    
DNS Gregory Konrath    
DNS Michael Powers    
DNS Meredith Tompkins    
DNS Chistopher Lavesser    
DNS Oscar Roldan    
DNS William Valverde Barquero    
DNS Ibrahim Mustafa Porras    
DNS Federico Ramirez Hernandez    
DNS Marvin Campos    
DNS Douglas Offer    
DNS Mauricio Patiño    
Women's results
1 Adriana Rojas 7:17:23  
2 Louise Kobin 0:10:31  
3 Yesennia Villalta Coto 1:54:03  
4 Heidi Jo Clayton 2:46:04  
5 Tania Radic 3:09:05  
6 Sarah O'byrne 3:14:48  
7 Nikane Mallea 3:22:19  
8 Ruth Cunningham 3:33:10  
9 M. Gabriela Porras Madrigal 3:53:35  
10 Caroline Cashini 4:03:36  
11 Patrice Vercamen 4:13:09  
12 Butler Cricket 4:26:34  
DNS Melessa Patterson    
DNS Martinez Blanca    
Master's A results
1 Benjamin Bostrom 6:04:40  
2 Santos Corea 0:05:04  
3 Edgar Zumbado 0:28:04  
4 Allen Castro Alfaro 1:11:57  
5 Alexander Ramirez Vega 1:19:58  
6 Dax Jaikel 1:25:20  
7 Juan Carlos Marin Valenciano 1:43:31  
8 Miguel Sanchez Perez 1:53:28  
9 Jose Pozuelo 1:56:07  
10 Corey Scobie 1:56:08  
11 Warren Ellis 1:57:20  
12 Ron Ellis 1:57:21  
13 Marc Seidel 2:00:34  
14 Matt Ohran 2:13:30  
15 Marco Antonio Valverde Lara 2:15:34  
16 Von Edwards 2:24:32  
17 Myron Rodriguez 2:26:30  
18 Mauricio Gonzalo Guglielmetti Vergara 2:31:40  
19 Jose Santos Miranda 2:32:00  
20 Carlo Mi Garcia D 2:32:40  
21 Justin Pokrivka 2:34:00  
22 Miguel Navarro Moral 2:35:30  
23 Ronald Jimenez Rodriguez 2:44:57  
24 Iker Maiz 2:44:58  
25 Emma Smith    
26 Orion Orca Akerson 2:48:54  
27 Zlatko Piskulich 2:49:09  
28 Cory Smith 2:51:00  
29 Eduardo Solano Saenz 2:51:28  
30 Allan Arguedas Varela 2:57:38  
31 Armando Gonzalez Jimenez 3:05:45  
32 Ronald Arias 3:12:29  
33 Jairo Garita Hernandez 3:13:24  
34 Esteban Solano Moya 3:14:35  
35 Henry Molina Vargas    
36 Svein Olaus Markestad 3:17:54  
37 Alejando Jose Wong Campos 3:21:17  
38 Adrian Solano Aguilar 3:26:49  
39 Bernardo Alfaro 3:29:22  
40 Alvaro Quesada Loria 3:29:55  
41 Jonathan Chester 3:36:10  
42 Xabier Erdaide 3:36:15  
43 Alejandro Arias 3:38:52  
44 Kevin Curtis 3:39:10  
45 Max Araya Orozco    
46 Alejandro Lopez Quesada 3:49:28  
47 Svein Flornes 3:58:16  
48 Jesus Rubio Garcia 4:06:42  
49 Bingen Fernandez Bustinza 4:35:02  
50 Leonardo Rodriguez Castillo 4:49:11  
51 Philips Pessoa 5:11:28  
52 Daniel Patterson 5:11:29  
53 Esteban Mora Cyrman 5:15:42  
54 Ed Cashin 5:16:27  
55 Alex Murray 5:20:09  
56 Cristian Lara Herrera 5:25:45  
57 John Tatum 5:27:19  
58 Ricardo Sala 5:44:21  
59 Jesse Morton 5:45:05  
60 Svend Paulsen 5:58:14  
61 Jesper Gronnebaek    
DNF Jorge Adrian Solis Castillo    
DNF Jason Evangelista    
DNS Ricardo Moncayo    
DNS Flemming Lung    
DNS Felisa Medina    
DNS Matt Johnson    
DNS Gavin Romanis    
DNS Edgar Heise    
DNS Matthew Blacker    
DNS Katarina Cervikova    
DNS Irwind Aden Boer    
DNS Maria Tereza Leighton    
DNS Roy Valverde    
DNS Alexander Sanchez Calderon    
Master's B results
1 Heinz Zoerweg 5:43:36  
2 Alejandro Alvarado Castro 0:37:20  
3 Rune Christopher Hoydahl 0:54:29  
4 John Bullens 1:09:37  
5 Patrick Jansen 1:13:37  
6 Allan St Pierre 1:31:19  
7 Randall Vargas 1:37:16  
8 Carlos Arias Alvarado 1:46:00  
9 Bruce Eric Young Nearing 1:50:21  
10 Dean Hill 2:08:11  
11 Fernando Salazar Chavaria 2:17:11  
12 Francisco Alfaro Morales 2:17:37  
13 Juan Carlos Apilluelo Fernandez 2:19:09  
14 Tom De Haan 2:23:31  
15 Marcel Molendijk 2:23:32  
16 Tjeerd De Vries    
17 Carlos Cardemil Vergine 2:49:38  
18 Carlos Carranza Morales 2:50:04  
19 Per Martin Gundersen 2:50:36  
20 Shawn Ruda 2:51:03  
21 Ron Castia Livermore 3:00:53  
22 Patricio Javier Dias 3:04:06  
23 Carlos Elizondo Vargas 3:10:20  
24 Federico Amador 3:11:22  
25 Ron Rell 3:11:55  
26 Oscar Molina Solano 3:12:32  
27 Klaus Rubensaal 3:17:35  
28 Arcadio Ramirez 3:20:02  
29 Mauricio Pasos 3:25:08  
30 Arnaldo Brenes Rojas 3:26:51  
31 Tiziano Gortan 3:35:37  
32 Max Fishel 3:35:38  
33 Eduardo Uribe 3:39:11  
34 Darryl Mekechuk 3:39:24  
35 Geovanny Gomez Navarro 3:42:02  
36 Ty Maynard Lang 3:44:44  
37 Eduardo Del Collado 3:54:03  
38 Enrique Navas Pes 3:54:54  
39 Xavier Gazo German 3:58:59  
40 Javier Guardia Astuaa 3:59:56  
41 Julio Cesar Ramirez Rojass    
42 Robert Stubbs 4:04:30  
43 Mike Kopec 4:10:24  
44 Alejandro Baccani 4:14:44  
45 Luis Andres Valverde Ramirez 4:26:39  
46 Otto Ortiz Alvarado 4:30:18  
47 Dan Mccarthy 4:40:39  
48 Kevin G Smith 4:46:59  
49 Wolfgang Bubhart 5:02:35  
50 Christopher Seavell 5:13:01  
51 Federico Escalante 5:18:01  
52 Alejandro Hinojos 5:19:50  
53 Armando Dattoli    
54 Michael Thiele 5:27:23  
55 Leonardo Garita Calvo 5:33:25  
56 Andreas Wittmann 5:33:26  
57 Luis Felipe Rojas Monge 5:34:02  
58 Patricio Fernandez 5:39:37  
59 Bart Linders 5:46:56  
60 Hans Lienhart 5:47:48  
61 Jeff Plank 5:58:42  
62 Mike Daggett 5:59:32  
63 Jakob Gronnebaek Rhode 6:19:18  
DNF Kyle Tompkins    
DNF Roman Pert    
DNF Idelfonso Alejandro Oporta Reyes    
DNS Miguel Echeveria    
DNS Billy Molina    
DNS John Fotheringham    
DNS Gordon Smith    
DNS Jens Kraus    
DNS Cprine Van Der Linden    
DNS Eva Melbo    
DNS Marck Burguez    
DNS Mike Chauk    
DNS Julio Medina    
Veteran's results
1 Jorge Castillo Montero 7:46:09  
2 Don Sissons 0:07:50  
3 Ole Kristian Silseth 0:24:46  
4 Alejandro Rojas Carazo 1:28:24  
5 Cliff Richmond 2:42:35  
6 Rolando Lacle Zuñiga 2:44:12  
7 Amadeo Deprit 2:56:00  
8 Ron Spencer 3:47:05  
9 Don Mahnke 3:52:59  
10 Mark White 3:57:50  
11 Jose Casla 4:05:35  
12 Oscar Roberto Sanabria Garro 4:12:08  
13 Heart Akerson 4:19:39  
14 Luis Uribeechevarria 4:26:48  
15 Juan Abasolo    
16 Herman Quirynen 4:45:00  
DNF Johann Kroell    
DNS Chirs Waldron    
DNS Greg Grimes    
General results
1 Chris Wieczorek 8:38:39  
DNS John Toye    
Men's general classification
1 Manuel Prado 5:43:35  
2 Marc Traiter 0:06:45  
3 Roberto Heras 0:10:17  
4 Milton Ramos 0:14:15  
5 Jeremiah Bishop 0:18:05  
6 Alex Grant 0:18:06  
7 Tinker Juarez 0:21:09  
8 Juan Ignacio Mendez 0:33:42  
9 Benjamin Sonntag 0:35:38  
10 Deiber Esquivel 0:37:21  
11 Bart Gillespie 0:39:32  
12 Alban Figueroa 0:43:36  
13 Carlos Abellan Ossenbach 0:44:18  
14 Cory Travis 0:53:55  
15 Kris Janssens 1:01:42  
16 Luis Diego Sibaja    
17 Alfredo Acosta Gonzalez 1:01:47  
18 Sebastian Linares 1:46:27  
19 Brayan Alders 1:52:48  
20 Esteban Pacheco Quiros 2:05:25  
21 Eduard Hernandez Teixidor 2:09:44  
22 Oscar Marin Jimenez 2:17:13  
23 Arnoldo Loaiza 2:19:27  
24 Fabricio Brenes Quiros 2:20:25  
25 Samuel De La Sotta 2:21:44  
26 Simon Tremblay 2:23:15  
27 Jorge Eduardo Garcia Gomez 2:36:38  
28 Daniel Garcia Matamoros 3:06:01  
29 Adrian Alvarado Rossi 3:17:26  
30 Felipe Castro Barquero 3:17:36  
31 Daniel Muñoz 3:19:58  
32 Rodrigo Herrera 3:33:54  
33 Allan Padilla Umaña 4:02:33  
34 Jeffrey Collins 4:10:34  
35 Alexis Blanco Vargas 4:17:59  
36 Andres Rivera 4:19:59  
37 Antonio Jara Benavides 4:42:41  
38 Pablo Velasquez 4:42:55  
39 Roger Herrera 4:46:07  
40 Sebastian Conejo 4:53:27  
41 Javier Santana Bonilla    
42 Arnoldo Broutin 4:57:53  
43 Rafael Mesen Solis 5:13:02  
44 Heiner Mora 5:17:59  
Women's general classification
1 Adriana Rojas 7:17:23  
2 Louise Kobin 0:10:31  
3 Yesennia Villalta Coto 1:54:03  
4 Heidi Jo Clayton 2:46:04  
5 Tania Radic 3:09:05  
6 Sarah O'byrne 3:14:48  
7 Nikane Mallea 3:22:19  
8 Ruth Cunningham 3:33:10  
9 M. Gabriela Porras Madrigal 3:53:35  
10 Caroline Cashini 4:03:36  
11 Patrice Vercamen 4:13:09  
12 Butler Cricket 4:26:34  
Master's A general classification
1 Benjamin Bostrom 6:04:40  
2 Santos Corea 0:05:04  
3 Edgar Zumbado 0:28:04  
4 Allen Castro Alfaro 1:11:57  
5 Alexander Ramirez Vega 1:19:58  
6 Dax Jaikel 1:25:20  
7 Juan Carlos Marin Valenciano 1:43:31  
8 Miguel Sanchez Perez 1:53:28  
9 Jose Pozuelo 1:56:07  
10 Corey Scobie 1:56:08  
11 Warren Ellis 1:57:20  
12 Ron Ellis 1:57:21  
13 Marc Seidel 2:00:34  
14 Matt Ohran 2:13:30  
15 Marco Antonio Valverde Lara 2:15:34  
16 Von Edwards 2:24:32  
17 Myron Rodriguez 2:26:30  
18 Mauricio Gonzalo Guglielmetti Vergara 2:31:40  
19 Jose Santos Miranda 2:32:00  
20 Carlo Mi Garcia D 2:32:40  
21 Justin Pokrivka 2:34:00  
22 Miguel Navarro Moral 2:35:30  
23 Ronald Jimenez Rodriguez 2:44:57  
24 Iker Maiz 2:44:58  
25 Emma Smith    
26 Orion Orca Akerson 2:48:54  
27 Zlatko Piskulich 2:49:09  
28 Cory Smith 2:51:00  
29 Eduardo Solano Saenz 2:51:28  
30 Allan Arguedas Varela 2:57:38  
31 Armando Gonzalez Jimenez 3:05:45  
32 Ronald Arias 3:12:29  
33 Jairo Garita Hernandez 3:13:24  
34 Esteban Solano Moya 3:14:35  
35 Henry Molina Vargas    
36 Svein Olaus Markestad 3:17:54  
37 Alejando Jose Wong Campos 3:21:17  
38 Adrian Solano Aguilar 3:26:49  
39 Bernardo Alfaro 3:29:22  
40 Alvaro Quesada Loria 3:29:55  
41 Jonathan Chester 3:36:10  
42 Xabier Erdaide 3:36:15  
43 Alejandro Arias 3:38:52  
44 Kevin Curtis 3:39:10  
45 Max Araya Orozco    
46 Alejandro Lopez Quesada 3:49:28  
47 Svein Flornes 3:58:16  
48 Jesus Rubio Garcia 4:06:42  
49 Bingen Fernandez Bustinza 4:35:02  
50 Leonardo Rodriguez Castillo 4:49:11  
51 Philips Pessoa 5:11:28  
52 Daniel Patterson 5:11:29  
53 Esteban Mora Cyrman 5:15:42  
54 Ed Cashin 5:16:27  
55 Alex Murray 5:20:09  
56 Cristian Lara Herrera 5:25:45  
57 John Tatum 5:27:19  
58 Ricardo Sala 5:44:21  
59 Jesse Morton 5:45:05  
60 Svend Paulsen 5:58:14  
61 Jesper Gronnebaek    
Master's B general classification
1 Heinz Zoerweg 5:43:36  
2 Alejandro Alvarado Castro 0:37:20  
3 Rune Christopher Hoydahl 0:54:29  
4 John Bullens 1:09:37  
5 Patrick Jansen 1:13:37  
6 Allan St Pierre 1:31:19  
7 Randall Vargas 1:37:16  
8 Carlos Arias Alvarado 1:46:00  
9 Bruce Eric Young Nearing 1:50:21  
10 Dean Hill 2:08:11  
11 Fernando Salazar Chavaria 2:17:11  
12 Francisco Alfaro Morales 2:17:37  
13 Juan Carlos Apilluelo Fernandez 2:19:09  
14 Tom De Haan 2:23:31  
15 Marcel Molendijk 2:23:32  
16 Tjeerd De Vries    
17 Carlos Cardemil Vergine 2:49:38  
18 Carlos Carranza Morales 2:50:04  
19 Per Martin Gundersen 2:50:36  
20 Shawn Ruda 2:51:03  
21 Ron Castia Livermore 3:00:53  
22 Patricio Javier Dias 3:04:06  
23 Carlos Elizondo Vargas 3:10:20  
24 Federico Amador 3:11:22  
25 Ron Rell 3:11:55  
26 Oscar Molina Solano 3:12:32  
27 Klaus Rubensaal 3:17:35  
28 Arcadio Ramirez 3:20:02  
29 Mauricio Pasos 3:25:08  
30 Arnaldo Brenes Rojas 3:26:51  
31 Tiziano Gortan 3:35:37  
32 Max Fishel 3:35:38  
33 Eduardo Uribe 3:39:11  
34 Darryl Mekechuk 3:39:24  
35 Geovanny Gomez Navarro 3:42:02  
36 Ty Maynard Lang 3:44:44  
37 Eduardo Del Collado 3:54:03  
38 Enrique Navas Pes 3:54:54  
39 Xavier Gazo German 3:58:59  
40 Javier Guardia Astuaa 3:59:56  
41 Julio Cesar Ramirez Rojass    
42 Robert Stubbs 4:04:30  
43 Mike Kopec 4:10:24  
44 Alejandro Baccani 4:14:44  
45 Luis Andres Valverde Ramirez 4:26:39  
46 Otto Ortiz Alvarado 4:30:18  
47 Dan Mccarthy 4:40:39  
48 Kevin G Smith 4:46:59  
49 Wolfgang Bubhart 5:02:35  
50 Christopher Seavell 5:13:01  
51 Federico Escalante 5:18:01  
52 Alejandro Hinojos 5:19:50  
53 Armando Dattoli    
54 Michael Thiele 5:27:23  
55 Leonardo Garita Calvo 5:33:25  
56 Andreas Wittmann 5:33:26  
57 Luis Felipe Rojas Monge 5:34:02  
58 Patricio Fernandez 5:39:37  
59 Bart Linders 5:46:56  
60 Hans Lienhart 5:47:48  
61 Jeff Plank 5:58:42  
62 Mike Daggett 5:59:32  
63 Jakob Gronnebaek Rhode 6:19:18  
Veteran's general classification
1 Jorge Castillo Montero 7:46:09  
2 Don Sissons 0:07:50  
3 Ole Kristian Silseth 0:24:46  
4 Alejandro Rojas Carazo 1:28:24  
5 Cliff Richmond 2:42:35  
6 Rolando Lacle Zuñiga 2:44:12  
7 Amadeo Deprit 2:56:00  
8 Ron Spencer 3:47:05  
9 Don Mahnke 3:52:59  
10 Mark White 3:57:50  
11 Jose Casla 4:05:35  
12 Oscar Roberto Sanabria Garro 4:12:08  
13 Heart Akerson 4:19:39  
14 Luis Uribeechevarria 4:26:48  
15 Juan Abasolo    
16 Herman Quirynen 4:45:00  
General classification
1 Chris Wieczorek 8:38:39