La Ruta de los Conquistadores 2009: Stage 1 Results

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

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.

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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	Row 15 - Cell 2
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	Row 40 - Cell 2
42	Arnoldo Broutin	4:57:53
43	Rafael Mesen Solis	5:13:02
44	Heiner Mora	5:17:59
DNS	Peter Durham	Row 44 - Cell 2
DNS	Victor Garcia	Row 45 - Cell 2
DNS	Benjamin Gradle	Row 46 - Cell 2
DNS	Mario Fuentes	Row 47 - Cell 2
DNS	Gregory Konrath	Row 48 - Cell 2
DNS	Michael Powers	Row 49 - Cell 2
DNS	Meredith Tompkins	Row 50 - Cell 2
DNS	Chistopher Lavesser	Row 51 - Cell 2
DNS	Oscar Roldan	Row 52 - Cell 2
DNS	William Valverde Barquero	Row 53 - Cell 2
DNS	Ibrahim Mustafa Porras	Row 54 - Cell 2
DNS	Federico Ramirez Hernandez	Row 55 - Cell 2
DNS	Marvin Campos	Row 56 - Cell 2
DNS	Douglas Offer	Row 57 - Cell 2
DNS	Mauricio Patiño	Row 58 - Cell 2

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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	Row 12 - Cell 2
DNS	Martinez Blanca	Row 13 - Cell 2

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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	Row 24 - Cell 2
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	Row 34 - Cell 2
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	Row 44 - Cell 2
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	Row 60 - Cell 2
DNF	Jorge Adrian Solis Castillo	Row 61 - Cell 2
DNF	Jason Evangelista	Row 62 - Cell 2
DNS	Ricardo Moncayo	Row 63 - Cell 2
DNS	Flemming Lung	Row 64 - Cell 2
DNS	Felisa Medina	Row 65 - Cell 2
DNS	Matt Johnson	Row 66 - Cell 2
DNS	Gavin Romanis	Row 67 - Cell 2
DNS	Edgar Heise	Row 68 - Cell 2
DNS	Matthew Blacker	Row 69 - Cell 2
DNS	Katarina Cervikova	Row 70 - Cell 2
DNS	Irwind Aden Boer	Row 71 - Cell 2
DNS	Maria Tereza Leighton	Row 72 - Cell 2
DNS	Roy Valverde	Row 73 - Cell 2
DNS	Alexander Sanchez Calderon	Row 74 - Cell 2

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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	Row 15 - Cell 2
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	Row 40 - Cell 2
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	Row 52 - Cell 2
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	Row 63 - Cell 2
DNF	Roman Pert	Row 64 - Cell 2
DNF	Idelfonso Alejandro Oporta Reyes	Row 65 - Cell 2
DNS	Miguel Echeveria	Row 66 - Cell 2
DNS	Billy Molina	Row 67 - Cell 2
DNS	John Fotheringham	Row 68 - Cell 2
DNS	Gordon Smith	Row 69 - Cell 2
DNS	Jens Kraus	Row 70 - Cell 2
DNS	Cprine Van Der Linden	Row 71 - Cell 2
DNS	Eva Melbo	Row 72 - Cell 2
DNS	Marck Burguez	Row 73 - Cell 2
DNS	Mike Chauk	Row 74 - Cell 2
DNS	Julio Medina	Row 75 - Cell 2

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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	Row 14 - Cell 2
16	Herman Quirynen	4:45:00
DNF	Johann Kroell	Row 16 - Cell 2
DNS	Chirs Waldron	Row 17 - Cell 2
DNS	Greg Grimes	Row 18 - Cell 2

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General results
1	Chris Wieczorek	8:38:39
DNS	John Toye	Row 1 - Cell 2

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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	Row 15 - Cell 2
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	Row 40 - Cell 2
42	Arnoldo Broutin	4:57:53
43	Rafael Mesen Solis	5:13:02
44	Heiner Mora	5:17:59

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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

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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	Row 24 - Cell 2
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	Row 34 - Cell 2
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	Row 44 - Cell 2
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	Row 60 - Cell 2

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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	Row 15 - Cell 2
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	Row 40 - Cell 2
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	Row 52 - Cell 2
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

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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	Row 14 - Cell 2
16	Herman Quirynen	4:45:00

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General classification
1	Chris Wieczorek	8:38:39

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