Carter Woods second at XCO season opener

Cindy Montambault leads Canadian women with podium finish in Puerto Rico

Photo by: Andy Vathis

Terry McKall February 21, 2022

Carter Woods led a trio of Canadian podium finishers in Sunday’s cross country Olympic race at the Tripical MTB Challenge.

Woods (Norco Factory Team) finished second in the elite men’s XCO at the UCI C1 level event behind Colombia’s Diego Alfonso. Tyler Orschel (Canyon Devo Racing) finished third, 10 seconds behind Woods. Andrew L’Esperance (Maxxis Factory Team) was fifth, putting a third Canadian man in the top-10.

Cindy Montambault raced onto a star-studded elite women’s podium. The Quebec rider finished third behind U.S. duo Kate Courtney (Scott-SRAM) and Gwen Gibson (Norco Factory Racing)

Emilly Johnston (Norco Factory Racing) and Haley Smith (Maxxis Factory Team) finished seventh and eighth in the elite women’s race.

Cam McCallum of Charge BCXC placed fourth in the junior men’s race behind a trio of U.S. riders in Puerto Rico.

The Tropical MTB Challenge started on Friday, with Quinton Disera winning the opening Short Track XCC of 2022.

Results: 2022 Tropical MTB Challenge XCO (UCI C1) – Salinas, Puerto Rico

Elite Men

1 Diego Alfonso ARIAS CUERVO	COL	01:37:55
2 Carter WOODS NORCO FACTORY TEAM	CAN	01:38:17
3 Tyler ORSCHEL	CAN	01:38:27
4 Georwill PÉREZ ROMÁN PURMTB TEAM	PUR	01:38:45
5 Andrew L’ESPERANCE	CAN	01:40:03
6 Brayden JOHNSON	USA	01:40:11
7 Lukas VROUWENVELDER GIANT FACTORY OFF – ROAD TEAM	USA	01:40:33
8 Jaime MIRANDA	MEX	01:41:41
9 Amando MARTINEZ GALVAN	MEX	01:42:10
10 Luis LÓPEZ NOLASCO	HON	01:42:42
11 Jacob MORALES ORTEGA PURMTB TEAM	PUR	01:43:09
12 Toby HASSETT	USA	01:44:05
13 Stephan DAVOUST GIANT FACTORY OFF – ROAD TEAM	USA	01:44:27
14 Carlos MIRANDA JAIME	MEX	01:44:30
15 Peter DISERA NORCO FACTORY TEAM	CAN	01:45:08
16 Carson BECKETT	USA	01:45:09
17 Quinton DISERA	CAN	01:45:15
Sean FINCHAM NORCO FACTORY TEAM	CAN
Raphael AUCLAIR PIVOT CYCLES – OTE	CAN

Elite Women

1 Kate COURTNEY SCOTT-SRAM MTB RACING TEAM	27	USA	01:33:42
2 Gwendalyn GIBSON NORCO FACTORY TEAM	23	USA	01:34:49
3 Cindy MONTAMBAULT	39	CAN	01:37:39
4 Hannah OTTO	27	USA	01:38:08
5 Kelsey URBAN TEAM 31	24	USA	01:38:28
6 Ruth HOLCOMB	19	USA	01:40:22
7 Emilly JOHNSTON NORCO FACTORY TEAM	20	CAN	01:42:46
8 Haley SMITH	29	CAN	01:44:11
9 Erika Monserrath RODRIGUEZ SUAREZ ZEROUNO FACTORY	23	MEX	01:48:09
10 Tai Lee SMITH	19	USA	01:50:40

Junior Men

1 Cayden PARKER	USA	01:23:32
2 Jack SPRANGER	USA	01:25:40
3 Brady WHITE	USA	01:28:18
4 Cam MCCALLUM	CAN	01:29:14
5 Paul BOICHIS	FRA	01:30:24

Junior Women

1 Bailey CIOPPA	USA	01:24:40
2 Amalia MEDINA FERNANDEZ	CHI	01:24:46
3 Lauren AGGELER	USA	01:25:19
4 Makena KELLERMAN	USA	01:27:26
5 Ava AHLBERG	USA	01:28:03