2016 Andes Pacifico Day 1 Report and Results

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Early season racing, time to dust off the cobwebs and get some training against the clock. It's not so serious that you can't have a beer or five. - Sven Martin

The liaison up to the start of Stage 1. Almost 6000m descending today meant starting as high as we could up at La Parva. - Sven Martin

Nico Prudencio had a big injury here last year effectively ending his season. This year he is sitting in 1st after Day 1. - Sven Martin

Nico Prudencio before Stage 1. - Sven Martin

T stands for Tracy. Mo' stands for mo' wheelie time. - Sven Martin

Tracy Moseley in 1st place after today. She will only be doing one or two EWS rounds this year. Mixing it up a bit with the more exotic, multi-day adventure races. - Sven Martin

Francois Bailly-Maitre coming to grips (or lack of grip) with the dirt here up on Stage 2. - Sven Martin

FMB for France on the BMC. - Sven Martin

Jon Cancellier has the dream job testing new technology for RockShox, running a coil for the extra grip. - Sven Martin

Iago Garay on Stage 4, pink lemonade. - Sven Martin

Jerome Clementz started the day off letting it all hang out, but also taking a few big crashes, too. Letting it out then reeling it back in to finish the day safe. No worries, we still have 4 days to go. - Sven Martin

Clementz crushing the crust. - Sven Martin

Iago testing out the "anti-grip" before dropping into Stage 1 blind. - Sven Martin

Allan Cooke blind hucking on Stage 1. - Sven Martin

Pauline Diefenthaler wide open among the wild horses. - Sven Martin

Mark Scott, the newest edition to the Santa Cruz enduro squad off to flying start sitting in 2nd place. Not bad for the Scottish lad in unfamiliar conditions. - Sven Martin

Many lines on the massive ridges descending from La Parva. - Sven Martin

The liaisons were flowy and scenic today. A lot of uplift in the 4x4 double cab trucks and only a small amount of traversing to the stages. - Sven Martin

Milciades Jaque from Chile sitting in 4th position. Leaned over on a tight lefty. - Sven Martin

Four riders and bikes with your own personal shuttle driver for the five days. - Sven Martin

Some sweet, big, tall tents for the racers. Plenty of room to get organized each day and a camp cot with Thermarest to keep you comfortable. - Sven Martin

Some of Chile's best wine and beer, free and unlimited for the competitors. All races need to do this. - Sven Martin

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Adventure and moon-like conditions must mean another dose of the Andes Pacifico race from Chile. Sven Martin reports with photos and audio in our slideshow and this report and results from Montenbaik below. -gordo
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Yesterday we started with Andes Pacifico 2016. This year It will 5 day of pure mountain bike from the Andes Mountain to the Pacific Ocean in Chile. More than 10.000 meters drop in the 21 special stages will be what the riders will have to make to complete this adventure.

La Parva Ski Resort, received a total of 64 riders from around the world to compete in the 3rd version of Santa Cruz 2016 Pacific Andes by Montenbaik.

The Special Stage Valle Amarillo that started at 3500 meters was the initial test of the “Dakar" of mountain bikes after this and 4 other stages, the Chilean pilot from team Extreme Zone, Nicolas Prudencio stands as leader with a total time of 41 : 26.5, followed by the scottish Mark Scott with a solid stride.

Very close in third position is the Frenchman Francois Bailly - Maitre with 41.33.4, that is also fighting for a place on the podium. In fourth is the Chilean Milciades Jaque from Curico, after cutting his chain in the fifth special Lomas del Viento, despite this mishap is less than 1 minute from Prudencio.

Meanwhile in the ladies category 3 times world champion Tracy Moseley Britain achieves the first day, followed by the French Pauline Dieffenthaler with a time of 51.22.2.

With a total of almost 4000 meters of descent and 5 Special ends on the first day of competition in the Andes. For the second day waiting another 5 special on a rocky and dissolved squeezing the skills of each rider.

Open Men's Results

Nico Prudencio - 41:26.5 - 7:31.9 (3rd) - 13:22.4 (1st) - 6:17.9 (1st) - 14:14.3 (5th)
Mark Scott - 41:31.8 - 7:39.8 (7th) - 13:45.4 (5th) - 6:40.9 (7th) - 13:25.7 (1st)
Francois Bailly-Maitre - 41:33.4 - 7:33.0 (4th) - 13:37.2 (3rd) - 6:37.7 (5th) - 13:45.5 (2nd)
Milciades Jaque - 41:56.8 - 7:20.5 (1st) - 13:32.6 (2nd) - 6:34.0 (3rd) - 14:29.7 (9th)
Iago Garay - 41:57.9 - 7:31.6 (2nd) - 13:53.1 (6th) - 6:43.6 (8th) - 13:49.6 (3rd)
Jerome Clementz - 42:01.1 - 7:37.0 (6th) - 13:57.9 (8th) - 6:36.5 (4th) - 13:49.7 (4th)
Antonio Ovalle - 42:12.5 - 7:35.2 (5th) - 13:45.1 (4th) - 6:29.9 (2nd) - 14:22.3 (7th)
Nate Hills - 44:01.1 - 8:11.7 (15th) - 14:24.3 (11th) - 7:06.5 (10th) - 14:18.6 (6th)
Fernando Riquelme - 44:09.6 - 8:03.1 (11th) - 14:12.7 (9th) - 6:38.7 (6th) - 15:15.1 (13th)
Martin Raffo - 44:52.9 - 8:05.7 (12th) - 14:54.2 (18th) - 7:18.4 (12th) - 14:34.6 (10th)
Francisco Uribe - 45:11.0 - 7:51.6 (9th) - 14:51.0 (17th) - 7:22.0 (15th) - 15:06.4 (12th)
Jorge Verdugo - 45:11.8 - 7:52.3 (10th) - 14:41.6 (14th) - 6:58.9 (9th) - 15:39.0 (16th)
Allan Cooke - 45:27.6 - 8:10.9 (14th) - 14:42.7 (15th) - 7:27.9 (18th) - 15:06.1 (11th)
Macky Franklin - 45:28.3 - 8:10.5 (13th) - 14:28.7 (13th) - 7:24.0 (17th) - 15:25.1 (14th=)
Ryan Walsch - 45:38.5 - 8:32.6 (19th) - 14:21.8 (10th) - 7:19.0 (13th) - 15:25.1 (14th=)
Dennis Beare - 46:36.9 - 8:18.3 (17th) - 14:50.5 (16th) - 7:20.0 (14th) - 16:08.1 (20th)
Isaac Denny - 46:38.8 - 8:15.8 (16th) - 14:24.9 (12th) - 7:55.0 (21st) - 16:03.1 (18th)
Tomás Baeza - 47:39.2 - 8:35.6 (20th) - 15:04.0 (20th) - 8:11.7 (24th) - 15:47.9 (17th)
Victor Galvez - 48:25.7 - 8:41.9 (22nd) - 15:54.8 (24th) - 7:42.8 (19th) - 16:06.2 (19th)
Santiago Perez Vergara - 49:19.5 - 10:54.7 (31st) - 15:15.9 (21st) - 8:46.4 (26th) - 14:22.5 (8th)
Davis English - 49:37.0 - 9:02.3 (23rd) - 15:36.4 (23rd) - 8:04.8 (22nd) - 16:53.5 (21st)
Alejandro Gonzalez Miramontes - 49:41.7 - 8:30.0 (18th) - 15:30.0 (22nd) - 7:49.1 (20th) - 17:52.6 (23rd)
Shane Spicer - 51:29.5 - 9:13.0 (24th) - 16:03.9 (25th) - 8:14.7 (25th) - 17:57.9 (24th)
Yuri Bogner - 52:00.1 - 9:46.2 (26th) - 16:43.4 (26th) - 8:08.4 (23rd) - 17:22.1 (22nd)
Juan Hagn - 52:10.0 - 8:36.1 (21st) - 14:57.8 (19th) - 7:22.9 (16th) - 21:13.2 (27th)
Scott Chapin - 54:44.8 - 7:49.9 (8th) - 13:54.2 (7th) - 7:14.5 (11th) - 25:46.2 (29th)
Brad Bethune - 56:12.3 - 10:09.4 (27th) - 17:34.3 (27th) - 9:28.7 (29th) - 18:59.9 (25th)
Cristian Lathrop - 57:34.9 - 9:44.0 (25th) - 17:46.0 (29th) - 9:13.4 (28th) - 20:51.5 (26th)
Michael Browne - 58:55.0 - 10:29.7 (28th) - 17:43.0 (28th) - 9:03.4 (27th) - 21:38.9 (28th)
Javier Ignacio Bobadilla Zuñiga - 67:35.2 - 10:54.4 (30th) - 18:18.5 (30th) - 10:24.5 (31st) - 27:57.8 (31st)
Alejandro Candia Pittari - 69:02.1 - 11:22.4 (32nd) - 19:48.2 (32nd) - 11:44.1 (32nd) - 26:07.4 (30th)
Bernardo Rodrigues Da Cunha Guaritá - 77:04.3 - 10:36.4 (29th) - 19:17.3 (31st) - 10:10.4 (30th) - 37:00.2 (32nd)

Women's Results

Tracy Moseley - 46:55.6 - 8:33.1 (1st) - 14:49.0 (1st) - 7:45.7 (1st) - 15:47.8 (1st)
Pauline Dieffenthaler - 51:22.2 - 9:28.9 (3rd) - 16:39.3 (3rd) - 8:38.7 (3rd) - 16:35.3 (2nd)
Anka Martin - 51:50.8 - 9:31.3 (4th) - 16:22.6 (2nd) - 8:42.2 (4th) - 17:14.7 (3rd)
Florencia Espiñeira - 55:28.1 - 8:46.0 (2nd) - 21:25.3 (10th) - 7:47.3 (2nd) - 17:29.5 (4th)
Josefina Gardulsky - 60:18.0 - 10:38.7 (7th) - 18:21.7 (5th) - 10:34.8 (7th) - 20:42.8 (5th)
Antonia Wurth - 60:34.2 - 10:18.6 (5th) - 18:12.3 (4th) - 9:48.4 (5th) - 22:14.9 (7th)
Claire Bennett - 60:40.7 - 10:35.0 (6th) - 18:32.8 (6th) - 10:01.5 (6th) - 21:31.4 (6th)
Syd Schulz - 65:52.5 - 12:07.1 (9th) - 20:35.8 (7th) - 10:43.7 (8th) - 22:25.9 (8th)
Rose Oakhill - 70:24.3 - 10:40.6 (8th) - 21:10.5 (9th) - 11:21.0 (10th) - 27:12.2 (9th)
Heather Logie - 75:07.5 - 13:00.4 (11th) - 20:59.2 (8th) - 11:16.6 (9th) - 29:51.3 (10th)