Albert Soley from Spain and hometown hero Sabrina Gobbo from Brazil captured the 12th annual XTERRA Brazil Championship in Ilhabela on Saturday.

It’s the first XTERRA World Tour win for Soley, who won the amateur 25-29 XTERRA World Championship in 2013 before going pro.

Soley, who finished 5th in the XTERRA European Tour standings last year, was fourth out of the water then powered his way to the front with the fastest bike split of the day.  He crossed the line in 2:11:22, more than three minutes ahead of 2014 XTERRA Brazil Champ Felipe Moletta. Last year’s winner Diogo Malagon posted the best run split of the day to finish in third.

In the women’s race Gobbo cemented her position as Brazil’s fastest female racer with her third straight XTERRA Brazil Championship win.  She’s the only Brazilian to win the championship race since its inception in 2005, and matched Shonny Vanlandingham as the only other 3x winner. Like Soley in the men’s race, Gobbo took control during the bike with the fastest split of the day and ultimately finished 10 minutes ahead of runner-up Laura Mira Dias.  Isabella Ribeiro was third.

Gobbo will now travel to the United States to race at XTERRA Oak Mountain in Alabama, the fourth stop on the XTERRA Pan America Tour title, next weekend.

“When it was announced that in 2016 they would have a Pan American XTERRA circuit, I thought it would be a great opportunity for me to evolve and try to compete with much stronger competitors then I was competing against in Brazil,” said Gobbo, who finished third behind Myriam Guillot-Boisset and Kara LaPoint at XTERRA Costa Rica in March. “This way I can get out of my comfort zone and try to reach for that extra power to achieve more, something that sometimes we don’t think we have.”

XTERRA Brazil was the 12th of 37 events where the fastest amateur athletes from around the world could qualify to race at the 21st annual XTERRA World Championship at Kapalua, Maui on Oct 23.

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ALL-TIME XTERRA BRAZIL PRO CHAMPIONS

Year Man Woman 2016 Albert Soley Sabrina Gobbo 2015 Diogo Malagon Sabrina Gobbo 2014 Felipe Moletta Sabrina Gobbo 2013 Conrad Stoltz Shonny Vanlandingham 2012 Felipe Moletta Shonny Vanlandingham 2011 Ben Allen Carina Wasle 2010 Dan Hugo Shonny Vanlandingham 2009 Rom Akerson Maria Omar 2008 Alexandre Manzan Carla Prada 2007 Mike Vine Candy Angle 2006 Nico Lebrun Candy Angle 2005 Conrad Stoltz Jamie Whitmore

XTERRA PAN AM PRO SERIES STANDINGS

XTERRA Brazil was the third of 10 stops on the new XTERRA Pan Am Tour. Racers count their best four scores plus what they earn at the XTERRA Pan American Championship race September 17 in Utah.

Here’s a look at the updated standings, showing Josiah Middaugh on top by virture of his win at XTERRA Argentina and second-place showing at XTERRA Costa Rica.

Myriam Guillot-Boisset leads the women’s chase after winning XTERRA Costa Rica and XTERRA Argentina on back-to-back weekends in March.

2016 XTERRA PAN AM PRO SERIES STANDINGS After 3 – 5.9.16 Men

PL NAME TOT 1 Josiah Middaugh, USA 167 2 Karsten Madsen, CAN 90 3 Jonatan Morales, ARG 82 4 Karl Shaw, GBR 75 5 Oscar Galindez, ARG 75 6 Albert Soley, ESP 75 7 Lucas Mendez, ARG 69 8 Felipe Moletta, BRA 67 9 Mario De Elias, ARG 63 10 Rom Akerson, CRC 61 11 Diogo Malagon, BRA 61 12 Facu Medard, ARG 58 13 Francois Carloni, FRA 56 14 Bruno Silva, BRA 56 15 Ian King, USA 53 16 Federico Venegas, CRC 51 17 Frederico Zacharias, BRA 51 18 Mauro Ayesa, USA 49 19 Greg Schott, USA 47 20 Raul Furtado, BRA 47 21 Victor Arenas, ARG 45 22 Henrique Lugarini, BRA 43 23 Parada Penagos, ARG 41 24 Eduardo Marcolino, BRA 39 25 Rodrigo Altafini, BRA 36 26 Stenio Bezerra, BRA 33 27 Rogério Paula, BRA 30 28 Ramon Bustos, BRA 27 29 Cristiam Suzin, BRA 25 30 Juscelino Vasco, BRA 23 31 Wellington Conceição, BRA 21 Women

PL NAME TOT 1 Miriam Guillot-Boisset, FRA 175 2 Laura Mira Dias, BRA 149 3 Sabrina Gobbo, BRA 136 4 Fabiola Corona, MEX 90 5 Erika Simon, ARG 75 6 Kara Lapoint, USA 67 7 Isabella Ribeiro 61 8 Caitlin Snow, USA 56 9 Luisa Saft 56 10 Caroline Colonna, USA 51 11 Vanessa Cabrini 51 12 Rebecca Blatt, USA 47 13 Fernanda Prieto 47 14 Brisa Melcop 43 15 Beatriz Granziera 39 16 Melania Giraldi 36 17 Monalisa Vieira 33

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