Trans Andes 2012: Stage 1 Results

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Stefan Sahm (Germany) leads the race across a ford.(Image credit: TransAndes Challenge)

German Stefan Sahm took first place and the overall lead after stage 1 of the Trans Andes Challenge between the town of Panguipulli and Huilo Huilo Natural Reserve, in the middle of the Chilean patagonia.

Sahm crossed the line in 3:45:56. American Jason Sager followed in second place at 3:48:25. Third place overall and first in the teams category went to Chilean Javier Püschel and Argentinian Luciano Caraccioli. Americans Mary McConneloug and Michael Broderick won the open mixed category with a time of 4:38:35.

On Tuesday, stage 2 will take racers just 50km, but will feature 2310m of climbing, completely within the Huilo Huilo Reserve.

Full Results

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Men solo
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Stefan Sahm (Ger)	3:45:56
2	Jason Sager (USA)	0:02:29
3	Jan Dams (Bel)	0:18:41
4	Alessandro Venturelli (Ita)	0:22:16
5	Blake Harlan (USA)	0:25:44
6	Renzo Corzini (Chi)	0:28:28
7	Alfonso Cossio (Chi)	0:37:24
8	Jordi Falgueras Payret (Spa)	0:45:17
9	Adam Ossowski (Pol)	0:49:30
10	José Antonio Riquelme (Chi)	0:49:36
11	Brad Cob (GBr)	0:50:27
12	Luuk Belga (Ned)	1:02:08
13	Jim Salusbury (Can)	1:10:38
14	Cederic Lyen (Bel)	1:10:58
15	Juan José Hazbún (Chi)	1:13:16
16	Christoph Stephan (Ger)	1:14:34
17	Nathan Heaps (USA)	1:22:21
18	Joaquín Echeverría (Ecu)	1:22:43
19	Pietrus Swiegers (Nam)	1:24:20
20	Sjoerd Tilstra (Ned)	1:29:20
21	Carsten Bischoff (Ger)	1:39:00
22	Bert Belga (Ned)	1:39:29
23	Ryan Mendes (Tri)	1:41:32
24	Jason Costelloe (Tri)	1:42:00
25	Greg Martin (USA)	1:42:37
26	Ian Owen (Gal)	1:47:00
27	Cristóbal Cruz (Chi)	2:13:18
28	Carlos Maldonado (PRc)	2:16:15
29	Cristian Kind (Chi)	2:22:02
30	Ramón Lopez (PRc)	2:26:10
31	Jonathan Chester (Can)	2:26:16
32	Daniel Restrepo (Col)	2:50:41
33	TC Crawford (USA)	2:51:57
34	Larry Rilley (USA)	2:52:02
35	Jorge Riba (Pan)	2:54:40
36	Rafael De Vitto (Arg)	3:04:12
37	Christopher Smith (Tri)	3:11:33
38	Carim Zogbi (Arg)	3:19:48
39	Grant Harris (RSA)	3:22:52
40	Jorge Urrutia (USA)	4:03:20
41	Maximiliano Echeverría (Chi)	4:55:47

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Women solo
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Anja Dinter (Ger)	5:24:56
2	Melanie Hunter (USA)	0:37:18

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Men Solo 45+
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Leon Van der Schoor (Ned)	4:56:31
2	Zbigniew Wizner (Pol)	0:10:35
3	Steve Walsh (Can)	0:12:18
4	Stephen Lebovitz (USA)	0:13:59
5	Frank Snyman (Nam)	0:14:19
6	Gabriel González (Chi)	0:15:26
7	John Ramsden (Can)	0:32:52
8	Scott McCallum (USA)	0:38:17
9	Rick D´Amico Jr (USA)	0:43:58
10	David Burke (USA)	0:44:50
11	Michael Talbert (USA)	0:48:09
12	Monty Dersley (RSA)	0:50:57
13	Thomas Borst (Ger)	0:51:49
14	Felipe Sargent (Chi)	0:53:12
15	Gustavo Rodolfo Marquez (Arg)	1:05:21
16	Bob Faulkner (Can)	1:07:24
17	Richard Dustan (Can)	Row 16 - Cell 2
18	Scott Biddinger (USA)	1:07:25
19	Kevin Maldonado (USA)	1:20:10
20	Gerry McCuaig (Can)	1:40:05
21	Joaquín Gil del Real (Pan)	1:40:07
22	Andrés Correa (Col)	2:23:39
23	Robert Souter (Can)	2:39:45
24	Jorge Ricardo Riba (Pan)	4:04:12

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Mixed duo
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Mary McConneloug (USA) & Michael Broderick (USA)	4:39:35
2	Elisa García (Chi) & Claus Plaut (Chi)	0:17:17
3	Trish Grajczyk (Can) & Erik Bakke (USA)	0:17:44
4	Florencia Espiñeira (Chi) & Tomás Baeza (Chi)	0:27:14

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Men duo
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Javier Püschel (Chi) & Luciano Caraccioli (Arg)	3:56:22
2	Hans Alfredo Tapia (Chi) & Saul Novoa (Chi)	0:11:52
3	Juan Garcia (Arg) & Francisco Perez (Arg)	0:30:24
4	Víctor Galvez (Chi) & Nicolás Prudencio (Chi)	0:33:16
5	Paul Ensink (Ned) & Matthijs Pot (Ned)	0:51:40
6	Benoit Simard (Can) & Jacques Gagne (Can)	0:58:48
7	Pedro González (Chi) & Sebastián Figueroa (Chi)	1:01:30
8	Michael Neser (RSA) & Christiaan Neser (RSA)	1:19:24
9	Alexander Vermehren (Chi) & Ivan Neihual (Chi)	1:33:15
10	Rolando Alfaro (Chi) & Roberto Alfaro (Chi)	1:44:15

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Mixed duo 60+
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Begoña Sylleros (Chi) & Cristóbal García Huidobro (Chi)	5:14:26

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Men duo 60+
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Carlos Cardemil (Chi) & José María Eyzaguirre (Chi)	4:26:36
2	Giorgio Nattero (Chi) & Sergio Madrid (Chi)	0:00:15
3	José Pablo Ramirez (Chi) & Gonzalo Aravena (Chi)	0:10:30
4	Alberto Santiago (PRc) & Javier Lopez (PRc)	0:31:59
5	Ben Swenka (USA) & Mike Quinn (USA)	0:47:55
6	Mauricio Guguielmetti (Chi) & Julian Muñoz (Chi)	1:07:40
7	Patricio Diaz (Chi) & Santiago Diaz (Chi)	1:07:52
8	Edward Kaplun (Chi) & Anibal Baeza (Chi)	1:44:44
9	Luis Lobo (Ven) & Luis Naranjo (Ven)	2:00:07
10	Pablo Anguita (Chi) & Gonzalo San Martín (Chi)	2:17:55

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Mixed duo 80+
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Chris Carmichael (USA) & Rebecca Rusch (USA)	5:10:54
2	Linda McGee (USA) & Rob McGee (USA)	0:26:31
3	Vanessa Tirloni (Ita) & Aldo Zanardi (Ita)	1:12:54
4	Irina Kukueva (Rus) & Valery Evgrafov (Rus)	1:16:08
5	Ximena Martínez (Per) & Javier Serra (Spa)	3:57:51

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Men duo 80+
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Carsten Bresser (Ger) & Udo Bölts (Ger)	4:11:59
2	Brian Vaughn (USA) & Yuri Hauswald (USA)	0:41:34
3	Cristian Raab (Chi) & José Luis García (Chi)	1:11:52
4	Friedrich Ricco (RSA) & Claude Van Cuyck (RSA)	1:13:04
5	Klaus Ruebensaal (Ger) & Andreas Wittmann (Ger)	1:13:30
6	Jeffrey Larson (USA) & Leonard Tullous (USA)	1:14:30
7	Willem Van der Merwe (RSA) & Jeffry Willcocks (RSA)	1:22:13
8	Jim Lehman (USA) & John Battista (USA)	1:32:49
9	Wayne Brunyee (RSA) & Jan Hnizdo (RSA)	1:39:36
10	Ben Morris (GBr) & Shane Dickinson (GBr)	2:02:26
11	Jeremy Barret (GBr) & Stephen Jackson (GBr)	2:35:54
12	Reuven Sztejfman (Isr) & Christopher Hoe (USA)	1:51:56
DNF	Denio Roberto M. Franco (Bra) & Paulo Coelho (Bra)	Row 12 - Cell 2
DNF	Graham Denny (GBr) & Rod Cairns (RSA)	Row 13 - Cell 2

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Mixed duo 100+
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Bill Glore (USA) & Mike Dannelley (USA)	4:51:01
2	Harry Ensink (Ned) & Willy Welles (Ned)	0:06:04
3	Thys Neser (RSA) & Brett Sachs (RSA)	0:45:42
4	Graham Denny (GBr) & Rod Cairns (RSA)	1:18:04
4	Sarah Webb (RSA) & Stewart Shaw-Tayloer (RSA)	2:08:51

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Half Andes Men solo
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Boris Pérez (Pan)	7:37:20
2	Javier Crasemann (Chi)	0:50:40
3	Luis Hernán Bustos (Chi)	0:50:41

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Half Andes Men solo 45+
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Augusto Coello (Chi)	8:28:00
2	Axel Paul (Chi)	Row 1 - Cell 2

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Men solo general classification after stage 1
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Stefan Sahm (Ger)	3:45:56
2	Jason Sager (USA)	0:02:29
3	Jan Dams (Bel)	0:18:41
4	Alessandro Venturelli (Ita)	0:22:16
5	Blake Harlan (USA)	0:25:44
6	Renzo Corzini (Chi)	0:28:28
7	Alfonso Cossio (Chi)	0:37:24
8	Jordi Falgueras Payret (Spa)	0:45:17
9	Adam Ossowski (Pol)	0:49:30
10	José Antonio Riquelme (Chi)	0:49:36
11	Brad Cob (GBr)	0:50:27
12	Luuk Belga (Ned)	1:02:08
13	Jim Salusbury (Can)	1:10:38
14	Cederic Lyen (Bel)	1:10:58
15	Juan José Hazbún (Chi)	1:13:16
16	Christoph Stephan (Ger)	1:14:34
17	Nathan Heaps (USA)	1:22:21
18	Joaquín Echeverría (Ecu)	1:22:43
19	Pietrus Swiegers (Nam)	1:24:20
20	Sjoerd Tilstra (Ned)	1:29:20
21	Carsten Bischoff (Ger)	1:39:00
22	Bert Belga (Ned)	1:39:29
23	Ryan Mendes (Tri)	1:41:32
24	Jason Costelloe (Tri)	1:42:00
25	Greg Martin (USA)	1:42:37
26	Ian Owen (Gal)	1:47:00
27	Cristóbal Cruz (Chi)	2:13:18
28	Carlos Maldonado (PRc)	2:16:15
29	Cristian Kind (Chi)	2:22:02
30	Ramón Lopez (PRc)	2:26:10
31	Jonathan Chester (Can)	2:26:16
32	Daniel Restrepo (Col)	2:50:41
33	TC Crawford (USA)	2:51:57
34	Larry Rilley (USA)	2:52:02
35	Jorge Riba (Pan)	2:54:40
36	Rafael De Vitto (Arg)	3:04:12
37	Christopher Smith (Tri)	3:11:33
38	Carim Zogbi (Arg)	3:19:48
39	Grant Harris (RSA)	3:22:52
40	Jorge Urrutia (USA)	4:03:20
41	Maximiliano Echeverría (Chi)	4:55:47

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Women solo general classification after stage 1
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Anja Dinter (Ger)	5:24:56
2	Melanie Hunter (USA)	0:37:18

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Men Solo 45+ general classification after stage 1
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Leon Van der Schoor (Ned)	4:56:31
2	Zbigniew Wizner (Pol)	0:10:35
3	Steve Walsh (Can)	0:12:18
4	Stephen Lebovitz (USA)	0:13:59
5	Frank Snyman (Nam)	0:14:19
6	Gabriel González (Chi)	0:15:26
7	John Ramsden (Can)	0:32:52
8	Scott McCallum (USA)	0:38:17
9	Rick D´Amico Jr (USA)	0:43:58
10	David Burke (USA)	0:44:50
11	Michael Talbert (USA)	0:48:09
12	Monty Dersley (RSA)	0:50:57
13	Thomas Borst (Ger)	0:51:49
14	Felipe Sargent (Chi)	0:53:12
15	Gustavo Rodolfo Marquez (Arg)	1:05:21
16	Bob Faulkner (Can)	1:07:24
17	Richard Dustan (Can)	Row 16 - Cell 2
18	Scott Biddinger (USA)	1:07:25
19	Kevin Maldonado (USA)	1:20:10
20	Gerry McCuaig (Can)	1:40:05
21	Joaquín Gil del Real (Pan)	1:40:07
22	Andrés Correa (Col)	2:23:39
23	Robert Souter (Can)	2:39:45
24	Jorge Ricardo Riba (Pan)	4:04:12

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Mixed duo general classification after stage 1
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Mary McConneloug (USA) & Michael Broderick (USA)	4:39:35
2	Elisa García (Chi) & Claus Plaut (Chi)	0:17:17
3	Trish Grajczyk (Can) & Erik Bakke (USA)	0:17:44
4	Florencia Espiñeira (Chi) & Tomás Baeza (Chi)	0:27:14

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Men duo general classification after stage 1
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Javier Püschel (Chi) & Luciano Caraccioli (Arg)	3:56:22
2	Hans Alfredo Tapia (Chi) & Saul Novoa (Chi)	0:11:52
3	Juan Garcia (Arg) & Francisco Perez (Arg)	0:30:24
4	Víctor Galvez (Chi) & Nicolás Prudencio (Chi)	0:33:16
5	Paul Ensink (Ned) & Matthijs Pot (Ned)	0:51:40
6	Benoit Simard (Can) & Jacques Gagne (Can)	0:58:48
7	Pedro González (Chi) & Sebastián Figueroa (Chi)	1:01:30
8	Michael Neser (RSA) & Christiaan Neser (RSA)	1:19:24
9	Alexander Vermehren (Chi) & Ivan Neihual (Chi)	1:33:15
10	Rolando Alfaro (Chi) & Roberto Alfaro (Chi)	1:44:15

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Mixed duo 60+ general classification after stage 1
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Begoña Sylleros (Chi) & Cristóbal García Huidobro (Chi)	5:14:26

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Men duo 60+ general classification after stage 1
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Carlos Cardemil (Chi) & José María Eyzaguirre (Chi)	4:26:36
2	Giorgio Nattero (Chi) & Sergio Madrid (Chi)	0:00:15
3	José Pablo Ramirez (Chi) & Gonzalo Aravena (Chi)	0:10:30
4	Alberto Santiago (PRc) & Javier Lopez (PRc)	0:31:59
5	Ben Swenka (USA) & Mike Quinn (USA)	0:47:55
6	Mauricio Guguielmetti (Chi) & Julian Muñoz (Chi)	1:07:40
7	Patricio Diaz (Chi) & Santiago Diaz (Chi)	1:07:52
8	Edward Kaplun (Chi) & Anibal Baeza (Chi)	1:44:44
9	Luis Lobo (Ven) & Luis Naranjo (Ven)	2:00:07
10	Pablo Anguita (Chi) & Gonzalo San Martín (Chi)	2:17:55

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Mixed duo 80+ general classification after stage 1
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Chris Carmichael (USA) & Rebecca Rusch (USA)	5:10:54
2	Linda McGee (USA) & Rob McGee (USA)	0:26:31
3	Vanessa Tirloni (Ita) & Aldo Zanardi (Ita)	1:12:54
4	Irina Kukueva (Rus) & Valery Evgrafov (Rus)	1:16:08
5	Ximena Martínez (Per) & Javier Serra (Spa)	3:57:51

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Men duo 80+ general classification after stage 1
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Carsten Bresser (Ger) & Udo Bölts (Ger)	4:11:59
2	Brian Vaughn (USA) & Yuri Hauswald (USA)	0:41:34
3	Cristian Raab (Chi) & José Luis García (Chi)	1:11:52
4	Friedrich Ricco (RSA) & Claude Van Cuyck (RSA)	1:13:04
5	Klaus Ruebensaal (Ger) & Andreas Wittmann (Ger)	1:13:30
6	Jeffrey Larson (USA) & Leonard Tullous (USA)	1:14:30
7	Willem Van der Merwe (RSA) & Jeffry Willcocks (RSA)	1:22:13
8	Jim Lehman (USA) & John Battista (USA)	1:32:49
9	Wayne Brunyee (RSA) & Jan Hnizdo (RSA)	1:39:36
10	Ben Morris (GBr) & Shane Dickinson (GBr)	2:02:26
11	Jeremy Barret (GBr) & Stephen Jackson (GBr)	2:35:54
12	Reuven Sztejfman (Isr) & Christopher Hoe (USA)	1:51:56
DNF	Denio Roberto M. Franco (Bra) & Paulo Coelho (Bra)	Row 12 - Cell 2
DNF	Graham Denny (GBr) & Rod Cairns (RSA)	Row 13 - Cell 2

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Mixed duo 100+ general classification after stage 1
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Bill Glore (USA) & Mike Dannelley (USA)	4:51:01
2	Harry Ensink (Ned) & Willy Welles (Ned)	0:06:04
3	Thys Neser (RSA) & Brett Sachs (RSA)	0:45:42
4	Graham Denny (GBr) & Rod Cairns (RSA)	1:18:04
4	Sarah Webb (RSA) & Stewart Shaw-Tayloer (RSA)	2:08:51

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Half Andes Men solo general classification after stage 1
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Boris Pérez (Pan)	7:37:20
2	Javier Crasemann (Chi)	0:50:40
3	Luis Hernán Bustos (Chi)	0:50:41

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Half Andes Men solo 45+ general classification after stage 1
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Augusto Coello (Chi)	8:28:00
2	Axel Paul (Chi)	Row 1 - Cell 2

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