Amity Rockwell, Lukas Baum win GC titles at Migration Gravel Race

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Briton Madeleine Nutt wins stage 4 for women to finish second overall while Lachlan Morton finishes as men's GC runner-up

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Crossing the finish of stage 4 is Lucas Baum (ORBEA x Leatt x Speed Company)
Celebrating the stage 4 win at 2023 Migration Gravel Race is Lucas Baum (ORBEA x Leatt x Speed Company)(Image credit: The Migration Gravel Race)

Amity Rockwell ((Trek/PAS/Maurten/Schwalbe) and Lucas Baum (ORBEA x Leatt x Speed Company) wrapped up GC titles at the four-day Migration Gravel Race in Kenya on Friday.

Madeleine Nutt (Ribble Collective), who was fifth at the Traka 360 earlier this year, had a massive ride across the 188km stage 4, sitting in fourth overall. She launched an early solo attack and pushed to the stage victory with a 30-minute advantage over Maria Gudmundsdottir, pushing her into second overall on the GC. 

Rockwell finished third on the stage to secure the overall title. She finished on the podium all four days, including wins on stages 2 and 3.

“What a way to finish off the Kenya trip! I slipped away just out of the neutral, and didn’t stop pushing until the line,” Nutt wrote on her Instagram feed. “I raced well beyond my own expectations and my ability, fuelled by encouragement from motos, riders and media cars.”

On the men’s side, Baum won the final stage to secure the GC title, breaking away from Hakizimana Seth when the Team AMANI rider suffered a mechanical. The German then rode solo over most of the hilly day, a total of 1,680 vertical metres of climbing. 

Tanner Visnick (Rock Horn Racing) finished second on stage 4 while Australian Lachlan Morton (EF Education-EasyPost) finished third. With the podium, Morton secured second overall.

The 650km Migration Gravel Race is the third stop in the Gravel Earth Series, the second with top points for the seven-race series. Octopus Gravel in Switzerland is the next event on July 1.

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Stage 4 top 5 women
Pos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Madeleine Nutt 7:21:33
2Maria Gudmundsdottir 0:32:46
3Amity Rockwell 0:33:49
4Violette Neza 1:01:38
5Isabella Beckers 1:44:21
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Stage 4 top 5 men
Pos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Lukas Baum 5:50:03
2Tanner Visnick 0:11:12
3Lachlan Morton 0:11:14
4Elijus Civilus 0:31:44
5Joan Horrach 0:31:59
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Women GC
Pos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Amity Rockwell
2Madeleine Nutt
3Maria Gudmundsdottir
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Men GC
Pos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Lukas Baum
2Lachlan Morton
3Tanner Visnick
Jackie Tyson
Jackie Tyson
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Jackie has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast). Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France), and some mtb rides in Park City, Utah (USA).

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