Dique Ullum, San Juan – Josiah Middaugh and Myriam Guillot-Boisset captured the elite titles at XTERRA Argentina in San Juan on Saturday.
The victories put both Middaugh and Guillot-Boisset atop the leader board in the inaugural XTERRA Pan American Tour standings.
It’s the second win in as many weeks for Guillot-Boisset, who took home the XTERRA Costa Rica title last Sunday, and the first major XTERRA victory of the year for Middaugh, the reigning XTERRA World Champ.
When Middaugh caught Canadian Karsten Madsen on the bike he started yelling in Spanish … “I heard this Argentinian racer yelling he wanted to pass,” said Madsen. “I turned around to see who it was and there was Josiah with a big grin.”
Madsen said he hit some soft sand and bobbled a bit and Josiah was gone. On the podium Middaugh said “Karsten is getting faster and we all need to start worrying about him.” Middaugh finished a little over one-minute ahead of Madsen who came in 2nd.
Home country favorite Maximiliano Morales finished third, Oscar Galindez finished 4th, and Lucas Mendez was 5th.
In the women’s race Guillot-Boisset flew past Fabiola Corona just after T2 and put the hammer down.
“She went by me-zoom, so fast,” said Corona. “I just made a good run but could not catch her.”
Corona finished 2nd with Laura Mira Dias from Brazil in third and home country favorite Erika Simon from Argentina in 4th.
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THE OFF-ROAD TO UTAH
XTERRA Argentina was the second of ten races in the 2016 XTERRA Pan American Tour. The inaugural series for both amateur and professional athletes started last weekend at XTERRA Costa Rica and concludes September 17 with the XTERRA Pan American Championship race in Ogden, Utah. In between are two majors in the U.S., two in Canada, and one each in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.
The XTERRA Pan American Tour features Gold and Silver level events, where Gold events award points on a 100-point basis and Silver races award points on a 75-point basis.
The XTERRA Pan American Championship race in Utah will offer $20,000 USD for the race and distribute an additional $60,000 USD in prize money to the top 10 men and women in the final XTERRA Pan American Pro Series rankings.
Next up on the XTERRA Pan American Tour is XTERRA Brazil (May 7, 2016).
XTERRA Pan Am Tour Elite Standings (after 2) PL NAME CRC ARG TOT 1 Josiah Middaugh, USA 67 100 167 2 Karsten Madsen, CAN DNS 90 90 3 Maximiliano Morales, ARG DNS 82 82 4 Karl Shaw, GBR 75 DNS 75 5 Oscar Galindez, ARG DNS 75 75 6 Lucas Mendez, ARG DNS 69 69 7 Mario De Elias, ARG DNS 63 63 8 Rom Akerson, CRC 61 DNS 61 9 Facu Medard, ARG DNS 58 58 10 Francois Carloni, FRA 56 DNS 56 11 Ian King, USA DNS 53 53 12 Federico Venegas, CRC 51 DNS 51 13 Mauro Ayesa, USA DNS 49 49 14 Greg Schott, USA 47 DNS 47 15 Victor Arenas, ARG DNS 45 45 16 Parada Penagos, ARG DNS 41 41 PL NAME CRC ARG TOT 1 Miriam Guillot-Boisset, FRA 75 100 175 2 Fabiola Corona, MEX DNS 90 90 3 Laura Mira Dias, BRA DNS 82 82 4 Erika Simon, ARG DNS 75 75 5 Kara Lapoint, USA 67 DNS 67 6 Sabrina Gobbo, BRA 61 DNS 61 7 Caitlin Snow, USA 56 DNS 56 8 Caroline Colonna, USA 51 DNS 51 9 Rebecca Blatt, USA 47 DNS 472016 XTERRA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERS
XTERRA Argentina was the sixth 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 October 23.
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