La Ruta de los Conquistadores 2009: Stage 1 Results

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Heinz Soerweg, Manuel Prado, Marc Trayter (Image credit: J. Andrés Vargas)

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Roberto Heras, Milton Ramos, Manuel Prado, Marc Trayter and Heinz Soerweg (Image credit: J. Andrés Vargas)

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Roberto Heras from Spain climbs with harsh stomach aches which slowed him down to fourth place from leading the pack out of the Carara National Park. (Image credit: La Ruta)

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Manuel Prado looked tired after his stage win. (Image credit: La Ruta)

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Heinz Soerweg and Manuel Prado (Image credit: La Ruta)

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Heinz Soerweg won La Ruta stage 1 in the master's B category. (Image credit: La Ruta)

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At the front of the pack, Manuel 'Manny' Prado looks at the camera. (Image credit: La Ruta)

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Manny Prado and Heinz Soerweg one kilometer from the finish line of Stage 1. (Image credit: La Ruta)

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Supermoto star Ben Bostrom came in at second place. (Image credit: La Ruta)

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Roman Urbina interviewed by media at the finish line. (Image credit: La Ruta)

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