Rebecca's Private Idaho - Sarah Max and Griffin Easter win Queen's Stage Race

Rebecca's Private Idaho 2023, stage 3 of the Queen's Stage Race
Rebecca's Private Idaho 2023, stage 3 of the Queen's Stage Race (Image credit: Rebecca's Private Idaho/Adventure Scout Media)

Rebecca's Private Idaho has delivered its eleventh year of gravel racing, with Sarah Max and Griffin Easter sweeping up overall victory in the women's and men's categories of the event's Queen's Stage Race. They both won the first two stages and then held onto enough points by making the podium in the final headline event.

It is the eleventh year of the long-running Sun Valley gravel event in Idaho – spearheaded by powerful gravel force Rebecca Rusch – with the initial gravel race in 2013 having evolved to include the Queen's Stage Race. The event is made up of  three timed stages run over four days, from Thursday August 31 to Sunday September 3.

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Queen's Stage Race overall men - Top 5
PositionRiderPoints
1Griffin Easter1481
2Michael van den Ham1480
3AlexHowes1452
4John Vanderveen1408
5Carl Decker1377
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Queen's Stage Race overall women - Top 5
PositionRiderPoints
1Sarah Max1490
2Cecily Decker1480
3Ami Stuart1434
4Amity Rockwell1417
5Megan Florizone1392
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