Lance Armstrong has handily won the 2009 Leadville Trail 100. He did set a new course record, but he did not break the 6 hour mark. Dave Wiens was second and Matt Shriver was third.
# 1. Lance Armstrong, 6:28:51
# 2. Dave Wiens, 6:57:02
# 3. Matt Shriver, 7:09:48
# 4. Alex Grant, 7:10:54
# 5. Len Zanni, 7:11:21
# 6. Max Taam, 7:16:56
# 7. Travis Brown, 7:22:05
# 8. Manuel Prado, 7:35:27
# 9. Mike Hogan, 7:35:35
# 10. Jason Tullous, 7:35:47
***Please be sure to read ALL our Leadville 100 Coverage:***
http://reviews.mtbr.com/blog/category/leadville-100/
**Race Photo Gallery (courtesy of UltraRob):
http://reviews.mtbr.com/blog/leadville-100-photo-gallery-courtesy-of-ultrarob/
**Race Report with Photos (courtesy of feltbee):
http://reviews.mtbr.com/blog/leadville-100-race-report-lance-armstrong-wins/
**Racer’s Diary (courtesy of kc):
http://reviews.mtbr.com/blog/leadville-100-a-racers-perspective/
From VeloNews:
“Lance Armstrong (Mellow Johnny’s) won Colorado’s Leadville 100 on Saturday, knocking more than 15 minutes off of the old record, about a half hour ahead of six-time winner Dave Wiens. ”
http://www.velonews.com/article/96668/armstrong-wins-leadville-100
From Yahoo Sports(AP):
“Lance Armstrong can’t remember the last time he raced 65 miles by himself.”
“I don’t know, maybe when I was a young, young kid,” he said. “You would never do that on the Tour, so none of the Tours I won.”
“Quite literally in those Tours, excluding time trials, I probably rode alone for 20 miles. … It’s been a long time since I was time trialing for that long.””
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=ap-leadville100&prov=ap&type=lgns
Official Event website: http://www.leadvilletrail100.com/
(Photos courtesy of “rocco1109″ and “Chasintrane” from this forum thread: http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=546852 )
yipee yay.
That was only because Contador wasn’t racing on that one…
LMAO! That skinny little guy wouldn’t last 5 miles in the dirt…
Oh Yeah Lance would destroy Contador in the dirt!
Here is an amazing video!
http://www.superhumanmag.com/content/view/1565/48/
Dude. Nice how you only give credit to the more well known cyclists who took pictures and not everyone else who took the badass pictures. not what I would have expected of this site.
@anonymous
Point taken. The omission of that photo credit was a mistake. I will correct it now, and give proper photo credit.
-gregg
thank you. faith restored
type-o for the 4th place finish. Says 8 hours but supposed to be 7.
(editor: thanks for the correction, info now updated)