Last year’s Sea Otter Classic Cyclocross race proved to be the last, as the ’cross exhibition was not on the calendar of races at the 2019 Sea Otter Classic.
Last year’s Sea Otter cyclocross race was the last. 2018 Sea Otter Classic Cyclocross Race, Pro Men and Women. © J. Silva / Cyclocross Magazine
Fortunately for the dirt-inclined, there were two opportunities to race at Sea Otter, with a short-course UCI HC XC mountain bike race on Thursday and a one-lap long-course XC race on Sunday.
The short-course HC XC race took place on a 5 km lap at the Laguna Seca venue where Sea Otter takes place. The race featured relatively fast 10 t0 15-minute laps, with the men doing 8 laps and the women 7.
The one-lap XC race took place on the trails at Fort Ord National Mounument on Sunday. The 20-mile course featured 3,000 feet of climbing in a style of race similar to the Epic Rides Off-Road Series.
A lot of familiar names traded their cyclocross and gravel rides for mountain bikes and headed to the California coast.
Thursday HC XC
Last year at the XCO World Championships in Lenzerheide, American Kate Courtney outdueled Denmark’s Annika Langvad in the last lap to bring the rainbow stripes back to the U.S. for the first time since Alison Dunlap won at Vail in 2001.
On Thursday in the lap-based HC race, Langvad got a little bit of revenge, winning the Pro Women’s race by 30 seconds over silver medalist Erin Huck. Courtney landed on the podium in third.
Results of note include Sofia Gomez Villafane (4th), Katerina Nash (9th), Hannah Finchamp (18th), Ellen Noble (20th) and Jen Malik (23rd).
In the Pro Men’s race, wunderkind Chris Blevins continued his early-season roll with a win at Laguna Seca. Peter Disera finished second and Andrew L’Esperance third.
Some other results of note include Stephan Davoust (10th), Geoff Kabush (11th), Fernando Riveros (15th), Tobin Ortenblad (25th), Josh Berry (26th), Nick Lando (30th), Payson McElveen (31st), Carl Decker (44th), Tristan Uhl (49th), Ben Gomez Villafane (56th), Cooper Willsey (57th) and Cody Kaiser (68th).
Full results for both races are below.
Sunday UCI Long-Course XC
Sunday morning featured the second cross-country mountain bike race of the weekend. Sunday’s race was a one-lap, 20-mile loop with plenty of climbing, not all that different from the Epic Rides Off-Road series.
Langvad doubled up for the weekend, taking the win by almost a minute over Courtney. Catharine Pendrel (Clif Pro Team) rounded out the podium.
Some familiar names on the results sheet include Gomez Villafane (4th), Nash (6th), Finchamp (16th), Crystal Anthony (17th), Malik (22nd) Raylyn Nuss (25th) and Rebecca Gross (35th).
In the Men’s race, Simon Andreasson topped Blevins and L’Esperance by a few seconds to take the win.
Notable on the results sheet for the weekend is the return of McTubbbin, Tobin Ortenblad. After recovering from a broken collarbone suffered before Louisville Nationals, the Santa Cruz / Donkey Label rider has been racing the early-season UCI XCO races.
Ortenblad got his best finish of the season in the XC race, finishing in 19th.
Other results include Riveros (9th), McElveen (10th), Kabush (13th), Davoust (17th), Berry (21st), Lando (22nd), Willsey (27th), Calder Wood (34th), Decker (48th) and Robert Marion (70th).
Full results for the two races are below.
Women's Results: 2019 Sea Otter HC XC
| Place | Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Annika Langvad | 1:21:52 |
| 2 | Erin Huck | 1:22:23 |
| 3 | Kate Courtney | 1:23:30 |
| 4 | Sofia Gomez Villafane | 1:25:38 |
| 5 | Catharine Pendrel | 1:25:41 |
| 6 | Chloe Woodruff | 1:26:27 |
| 7 | Alexis Skarda | 1:26:54 |
| 8 | Lea Davison | 1:27:18 |
| 9 | Katerina Nash | 1:27:37 |
| 10 | Sandra Walter | 1:27:57 |
| 11 | Rose Grant | 1:28:12 |
| 12 | Evelyn Dong | 1:28:29 |
| 13 | Savilia Blunk | 1:28:42 |
| 14 | Emily Batty | 1:29:19 |
| 15 | Kelsey Urban | 1:29:35 |
| 16 | Haley Smith | 1:30:46 |
| 17 | Kaysee Armstrong | 1:30:47 |
| 18 | Hannah Finchamp | 1:30:53 |
| 19 | Gwendalyn Gibson | 1:31:21 |
| 20 | Ellen Noble | LAP |
| 21 | Emma Maaranen | LAP |
| 22 | Cindy Montambault | LAP |
| 23 | Jennifer Malik | LAP |
| 24 | Anna Megale | LAP |
| 25 | Sonya Looney | LAP |
| 26 | Nikki Peterson | LAP |
| 27 | Nicole Tittensor | LAP |
| 28 | Helena Gilbert-Snyder | LAP |
| 29 | Sienna Leger Redel | LAP |
| 30 | Kate Kelley | LAP |
| 31 | Ivy Audrain | LAP |
Men's Results: 2019 Sea Otter HC XC
| Place | Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christopher Blevins | 1:23:45 |
| 2 | Peter Disera | 1:23:50 |
| 3 | Andrew L'Esperance | 1:24:09 |
| 4 | Leandre Bouchard | 1:24:23 |
| 5 | Keegan Swenson | 1:24:23 |
| 6 | Simon Andreassen | 1:24:23 |
| 7 | Sandy Floren | 1:24:24 |
| 8 | Jose Gerardo Ulloa Arevalo | 1:24:54 |
| 9 | Stephan Davoust | 1:25:10 |
| 10 | Geoff Kabush | 1:25:12 |
| 11 | Kohei Yamamoto | 1:25:35 |
| 12 | Jerry Dufour | 1:25:45 |
| 13 | Raphael Auclair | 1:26:06 |
| 14 | RaphaL Gagnz | 1:26:10 |
| 15 | Fernando Riveros | 1:26:28 |
| 16 | Cole Paton | 1:26:32 |
| 17 | Pete Karinen | 1:26:32 |
| 18 | Nic Beechan | 1:26:32 |
| 19 | Alex Wild | 1:27:36 |
| 20 | Alexey Vermeulen | 1:27:37 |
| 21 | Russell Finsterwald | 1:27:48 |
| 22 | Cal Skilsky | 1:27:52 |
| 23 | Ryan Standish | 1:28:11 |
| 24 | Alexander Sugarman | 1:28:25 |
| 25 | Tobin Ortenblad | 1:28:40 |
| 26 | Joshua Berry | 1:28:47 |
| 27 | Samuel Elson | 1:29:01 |
| 28 | Daniel Johnson | 1:29:31 |
| 29 | Julien Bourdevaire | 1:29:31 |
| 30 | Nick Lando | 1:29:36 |
| 31 | Payson McElveen | 1:29:46 |
| 32 | Jaime Miranda Jaime | 1:29:53 |
| 33 | Ben Sonntag | 1:30:05 |
| 34 | Kyle Trudeau | 1:30:21 |
| 35 | Jake Yackle | 1:30:46 |
| 36 | Anders Johnson | 1:30:47 |
| 37 | Trevor McCutcheon | 1:31:04 |
| 38 | Matt Behrens | 1:31:14 |
| 39 | Alec Pasqualina | 1:31:15 |
| 40 | Bryson Perry | 1:31:57 |
| 41 | Marc-Andre Fortier | 1:32:09 |
| 42 | Gustavo Pedroza Sicaeros | 1:32:28 |
| 43 | Turner Conway | 1:32:28 |
| 44 | Carl Decker | 1:32:30 |
| 45 | Noah Tautfest | 1:33:12 |
| 46 | Reade Warner | 1:33:29 |
| 47 | Noah Hayes | 1:33:37 |
| 48 | Rylan Schadegg | 1:34:07 |
| 49 | Tristan Uhl | 1:34:25 |
| 50 | Ernie Watenpaugh | 1:34:39 |
| 51 | Dylan Fryer | 1:34:59 |
| 52 | Felix Belhumeur | 1:35:07 |
| 53 | Justin Desilets | LAP |
| 54 | Sean Dickie | LAP |
| 55 | Jules Goguely | LAP |
| 56 | David Duncan | LAP |
| 57 | Benjamin Gomez Villafane | LAP |
| 58 | Cooper Willsey | LAP |
| 59 | Jeremy Norris | LAP |
| 60 | Yuki Ikeda | LAP |
| 61 | Derek Parsons | LAP |
| 62 | Christian Husband | LAP |
| 63 | Sebastian Brenes | LAP |
| 64 | Landon Farnworth | LAP |
| 65 | Brent Wood | LAP |
| 66 | Jim Hewett | LAP |
| 67 | Spencer Glasgow | LAP |
| 68 | Cody Kaiser | LAP |
| 69 | Shane Johnson | LAP |
| 70 | Zack Villars | LAP |
| 71 | Jacob Hull | LAP |
| DNF | Quinton Disera | |
| DNF | Nicholas Jenkins | |
| DNF | Ethan Zehr |
Women's Results: 2019 Sea Otter Long-Course XC
| Place | Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Annika Langvad | 1:36:00 |
| 2 | Kate Courtney | 1:36:54 |
| 3 | Catharine Pendrel | 1:37:16 |
| 4 | Sofia Gomez Villafane | 1:37:32 |
| 5 | Lea Davison | 1:37:33 |
| 6 | Katerina Nash | 1:37:33 |
| 7 | Chloe Woodruff | 1:38:01 |
| 8 | Alexis Skarda | 1:38:06 |
| 9 | Gwendalyn Gibson | 1:39:13 |
| 10 | Savilia Blunk | 1:39:54 |
| 11 | Rose Grant | 1:39:54 |
| 12 | Kelsey Urban | 1:40:53 |
| 13 | Sandra Walter | 1:41:27 |
| 14 | Evelyn Dong | 1:42:26 |
| 15 | Jasmin Duehring | 1:44:57 |
| 16 | Hannah Finchamp | 1:45:12 |
| 17 | Crystal Anthony | 1:46:13 |
| 18 | Alyssa Eikmeier | 1:47:38 |
| 19 | Christine Eikmeier | 1:48:27 |
| 20 | Sonya Looney | 1:50:09 |
| 21 | Kaysee Armstrong | 1:50:18 |
| 22 | Jennifer Malik | 1:50:20 |
| 23 | Kelly Catale | 1:50:28 |
| 24 | Mina Ricci | 1:50:39 |
| 25 | Raylyn Nuss | 1:51:11 |
| 26 | Tira Denny | 1:52:32 |
| 27 | Darragh Hildreth | 1:53:42 |
| 28 | Helena Gilbert-Snyder | 1:53:54 |
| 29 | Fairlee Frey | 1:54:31 |
| 30 | Emma Maaranen | 1:55:16 |
| 31 | Anna Megale | 1:56:07 |
| 32 | Nikki Peterson | 1:56:56 |
| 33 | Sienna Leger Redel | 1:59:03 |
| 34 | Clodagh Mellett | 2:00:57 |
| 35 | Rebecca Gross | 2:05:48 |
| 36 | Kayla Kaiser | 2:13:01 |
| 37 | Ivy Audrain | 2:21:20 |
Men's Results: 2019 Sea Otter Long-Course XC
| Place | Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Simon Andreassen | 1:23:29 |
| 2 | Christopher Blevins | 1:23:33 |
| 3 | Andrew L'Esperance | 1:23:33 |
| 4 | Keegan Swenson | 1:23:34 |
| 5 | Peter Disera | 1:23:41 |
| 6 | Sandy Floren | 1:24:00 |
| 7 | Alex Wild | 1:24:14 |
| 8 | Cole Paton | 1:24:54 |
| 9 | Fernando Riveros | 1:25:07 |
| 10 | Payson McElveen | 1:26:43 |
| 11 | Quinton Disera | 1:26:43 |
| 12 | Jerry Dufour | 1:26:44 |
| 13 | Geoff Kabush | 1:26:45 |
| 14 | Kohei Yamamoto | 1:27:12 |
| 15 | Alexander Sugarman | 1:27:12 |
| 16 | Peter Karinen | 1:27:15 |
| 17 | Stephan Davoust | 1:27:42 |
| 18 | Ryan Standish | 1:27:43 |
| 19 | Tobin Ortenblad | 1:27:50 |
| 20 | Dylan Fryer | 1:28:39 |
| 21 | Joshua Berry | 1:28:53 |
| 22 | Nick Lando | 1:29:07 |
| 23 | Alexey Vermeulen | 1:29:17 |
| 24 | Anders Johnson | 1:29:22 |
| 25 | Russell Finsterwald | 1:29:23 |
| 26 | Alec Pasqualina | 1:30:03 |
| 27 | Cooper Willsey | 1:30:47 |
| 28 | Karl Platt | 1:30:49 |
| 29 | David Duncan | 1:31:18 |
| 30 | Kyle Trudeau | 1:31:19 |
| 31 | Gustavo Pedroza Sicaeros | 1:31:19 |
| 32 | Daniel Johnson | 1:31:39 |
| 33 | Charlie Mullins | 1:31:48 |
| 34 | Calder Wood | 1:31:56 |
| 35 | Cody Kaiser | 1:32:12 |
| 36 | Bryson Perry | 1:32:25 |
| 37 | Sebastian Brenes | 1:33:12 |
| 38 | Zack Villars | 1:33:50 |
| 39 | Sean Dickie | 1:33:50 |
| 40 | Rylan Schadegg | 1:33:51 |
| 41 | Simon Lewis | 1:33:53 |
| 42 | Ryan Gorman | 1:33:54 |
| 43 | Eric Olsen | 1:34:02 |
| 44 | Matt Behrens | 1:34:35 |
| 45 | Justin Desilets | 1:34:47 |
| 46 | Jeremy Norris | 1:35:22 |
| 47 | Reade Warner | 1:35:29 |
| 48 | Carl Decker | 1:36:30 |
| 49 | James Roloff | 1:36:58 |
| 50 | Landon Farnworth | 1:37:28 |
| 51 | Jim Hewett | 1:38:06 |
| 52 | Turner Conway | 1:38:06 |
| 53 | Macky Franklin | 1:38:22 |
| 54 | Will Foley | 1:38:26 |
| 55 | Noah Hayes | 1:38:43 |
| 56 | Jacob Hull | 1:39:24 |
| 57 | Derek Parsons | 1:39:44 |
| 58 | Spencer Glasgow | 1:39:47 |
| 59 | Jules Goguely | 1:39:47 |
| 60 | Brent Wood | 1:41:06 |
| 61 | Nic Beechan | 1:41:53 |
| 62 | David Miller | 1:42:04 |
| 63 | Christopher Kelly | 1:43:21 |
| 64 | Christian Husband | 1:43:37 |
| 65 | Joshua Tootell | 1:43:46 |
| 66 | Shane Johnson | 1:45:11 |
| 67 | Nicolas Jimenez | 1:45:31 |
| 68 | Clint Claassen | 1:47:25 |
| 69 | Ben Goyette | 1:47:45 |
| 70 | Robert Marion | 1:50:46 |
