Maria Laura Bugarin and Joaquin Plomer claimed the elite category victories at Vuelta Altas Cumbres Gravel, the first UCI Gravel World Series race in Argentina, which ran on Sunday.
It was a clear solo win for each of the riders on home soil, the 112km course testing competitors across 1,930 metres of elevation gain and 92% gravel paths.
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“I’ve been riding the route at Vuelta Altas Cumbres for over a decade now, and I can honestly say that in this edition – beyond winning the Women’s Gravel Overall – what I ‘really’ won was the chance to enjoy the entire weekend with some truly wonderful people,” Maldonado, a two-time Pan-American mountain Bike champion, wrote on her Instagram feed.
Plomer, who was second at Gravel Brazil a month ago, was dominant in the men’s category, finishing in a time of 3:53:54 to win the elite and overall category. USA’s Lance Haidet (Colnago-SRAM-Velocio-ZIPP-Fizik) took second in the men’s race while Franco Orocito was third in the elite category and Germán Dorhmann of Argentina was third overall.
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