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Gunnar Shogren chugs toward the finish line just ahead of runner-up Jason Cyr to win Sunday’s Aquafina Tour de Lake mountain bike race at Charles Fork Lake. Shogren won by less than 3 seconds.
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Gunnar Shogren of Morgantown, a former champion, completed the 30K course — two laps around the lake — in 1 hour, 48 minutes and 39 seconds. That was good enough to beat runner-up Jason Cyr of Davis’ time of 1.48:41.
Joey Riddle of Elkins was third, Andy Gorski fourth and Jeremy Rowand fifth in the Men’s Expert class.
Betsy Shogren of Morgantown, wife of the men’s winner and runner-up a year ago, was the champ this time in the Women’s Expert class with a time of 2:20.47.
Mandi Riddle of Elkins was second.
Winners were also determined in 15 other classes. The event was a point series race on the West Virginia Mountain Bike circuit.
A field of 49 riders competed in this year’s Tour, down from the 103 who competed last year. The race was delayed for an hour because of rain during the morning, which gave way to brilliant sunshine by race time.
Scott Gibson, Adam Reichard, Emilea Greathouse and Elijah Eastman were the winners in a Kids’ Day race Saturday evening.
Following is a complete list of participants in last weekend’s Aquafina Tour de Lake mountain bike race at Charles Fork Lake.
• Expert Men
1st – Gunnar Shogren, 1h48:39.122; 2nd – Jason Cyr, 1h48:41.548; 3rd – Joey Riddle, 1h53:47.418; 4th – Andy Gorski, 1h53:56.284; 5th – Jeremy Rowand, 2h00:05.382; 6th – Stephen Rowand, 2h01:11.596; 7th – Andrew Wiedrich, 2h09:59.980; 8th – Josh Chapman, 2h15:51.446; 9th – David Crow, 2h36:03.214
• Expert Women
1st – Betsy Shogren, 2h20:47.182; 2nd – Mandi Riddle, 2h36:55.810
• Clydesdale
1st – James VanHorn, 3h13:50.681; 2nd – Rich Barton, 3h22:27.083; 3rd – Rick Pauley, 3h58:32.014; DNF – Philip Poff
• Men 14 & under
1st – Scott Jones, 1h47:25.550; 2nd – Zachary Morrell, 2h12:21.573; 3rd – J.D. Barnette, 3h14:35.658
• Men’s Beginner
1st – Bruce Warron, 2h07:07.376; 2nd – Max Rader, 2h42:59.238; 3rd – John Barnette, 3h14:47.240
• Men’s Expert Master
1st – Matt Marcus, 2h13:09.985; 2nd – Dowain Ford, 2h27:50.684
• Men’s Expert Veteran
1st – Jon McClung, 2h13:29.204; 2nd – Kevin Fletcher, 2h29:30.604
• Men’s High School
1st – Matt Schumaker, 1h30:13.963
• Men’s Junior Expert
1st – Cai Clothier, 3h05:45.308; 2nd – Corey Chambers, 3h25:46.523
• Men’s Sport
1st – Donald Powers, 2h31:54.054; 2nd – Thad Kelley , 2h56:00.146; 3rd – Jason Brumfield, 3h29:58.240
• Men’s Sport Master
1st – Steve Schumaker, 2h47:23.155; 2nd – Steve Thorne, 3h03:48.456
• Men’s Sport Veteran
1st – George Herriott, 2h19:14.701; 2nd – Kris Aldridge, 2h29:48.714; 3rd – David Brown, 2h41:43.160; 4th – Deak Smith, 3h23:21.695; DNF – Todd Diehl
• Single Speed
1st – Chris McGill, 1h57:07.338; 2nd – Jonathan Martin, 2h01:19.643; 3rd – Aron Yevuta, 2h09:08.642; 4th – Marc Glass, 2h11:14.959; 5th – Chris Phillips, 2h13:55.113; 6th – Greg Moore, 2h24:10.227; 7th – Andy Gorby, 3h17:05.888
• Women’s Beginner
1st – Jody Blough, 2h31:16.534
• Women’s High School
1st – Samantha Ford, 2h43:41.051
• Women’s Sport
1st – Klara Hitchcock, 3h30:48.210
• Women’s Veteran
1st – Sarah Fletcher, 2h58:00.873
• Kids’ Division 1
1st – Scott Gibson, age 11; 2nd – Haley Gibson, 9; 3rd – Layne Freeland, 8
• Kids’ Division 2
1st – Adam Reichard, 7; 2nd – Lucy Westfall, 7; 3rd – T.J. Freeland, 6; 4th – Landon Freeland, 4; 5th – Courtney Burgess, 7
• Kids’ Division 3
1st (tie) – Emilea Greathouse, 4, and Elijah Eastman, 4
