November 20, 2010 (Costa Rica) – It was a “dreamed victory”, expressed Milton Ramos earlier today as he won the third stage of La Ruta. After 85 kilometers of climbing up to 9000ft and a downhill which took them to 1800ft, Ramos completed the stage with a time of 3h:38:03. “An unforgettable day for me and my team after one stage I consider to be the queen of stages, not only for it’s long climb and steep descent which you must run with much care as for you could crash the bike or fall.”

The key to the stage, according to Ramos, was in being able to stay with the leaders until the end.

Leao Pinto made it to the finish line in second place 14 minutes from the winner. “The stage was really hard for me as for the two first days I haven’t generated a steady pace. Today’s strategy was to discount as much time as possible.

Lico continues in the finish line:
Even though he was unable to win the race, he had to multiply tasks after a flat tire, three kilometers away. “it was a tough stage, I felt quite strong at the end of the day even though I had a flat after checkpoint 1.”

Lico came in the finish line at 3h:46m:15s, four minutes away from the leaders. He is in third place in the GC. Ben Sonntag continues in first place with a total time of 13h:47m:56s. “I did not have the best of luck, mostly at the ascent where I suffered much cold, yet I feel happy eventhough I know my leader jersey is in risk.”

Colombian Mejía was disquilified for having assistance on a non-designated area.

Last stage is up for Saturday with 101 kilometers and a 7am start which will lead them to Playa Bonita, Limón.

Women
1. Angela Parra Sierra (Col) 4:53:26
2. Louise Kobin (USA) 1:36
3. Rebecca Rusch (USA) 12:37
4. Brenda María Muñoz Arce (CRc) 40:31
5. Jane Rynbrandt (USA) 41:13
6. Ligia Madrigal (CRc) 47:18
7. Dianna Ineman (USA) 1:32:03
8. Kristin Kopec (Can) 1:44:32
9. Sandra Pereira M.O. Garnier (PRc) 2:07:00
10. April Sky Herring (USA) 2:21:56
11. Cassandra Lean Stamm (USA) 2:42:48
12. Kathy Salisbury (USA) 3:20:11
13. Dawn Fidler (USA)
14. Lena Yarbrough (USA) 4:21:02

Men
1. Milton Ramos (CRc) 3:38:03
2. Luis Leao Pinto (Por) 1:14
3. Federico Ramirez Mendez (CRc) 4:23
4. Alex Grant (USA) 8:12
5. Luis Mejia Sanchez (Col)*
6. Benjamin Sonntag (Ger)
7. Alexander Sanchez Calderon (CRc) 15:05
8. Leonard Jason Tullous (USA) 17:26
9. Eddy Perez (CRc) 22:46
10. Alfredo Cesar Acosta Gonzalez (CRc)
11. Manuel Prado (CRc) 26:49
12. Samuel Tyler Schultz (USA) 30:11
13. Ismael Ventura sanchez (Spa) 30:36
14. Thomas Turner (USA) 33:16
15. Blake Harlan (USA) 43:39
16. Luis Diego Chaverri Madden (CRc) 55:16
17. Santos Corea Gutierrez (CRc)
18. Juan carlos Fallas Rodriguez (CRc)
19. Juan Carlos Marin Valenciano (CRc) 1:02:06
20. James Andrew Lehman (USA) 1:02:54
21. Adam Pulford (USA) 1:04:12
22. Matt Luhn (USA) 1:08:22
23. Mario Alfredo Meneses Bonilla (CRc)
24. Corey Scobie (USA) 1:16:48
25. Javier Lanzuela Sanchez (Spa) 1:16:53
26. Fernando Salazar (CRc) 1:19:21
27. Alvaro José Lanuza Viquez (CRc)
28. Stephanus Francois Millard (RSA) 1:20:34
29. Felix Arratzoa Arrechea (Spa)
30. Marco Amador Jimenez (CRc) 1:24:31
31. Jose Santos Blandon Miranda (CRc) 1:24:35
32. Javier Badilla Badilla (CRc) 1:32:31
33. Eric Kollai (USA) 1:35:27
34. Victor Alonso Araya Pereira (CRc) 1:37:08
35. Anthony Steve Fonseca Sanchez (CRc) 1:38:12
36. Heiner Mora Quiros (CRc)
37. Daniel Perez (USA) 1:40:47
38. Luis fernando Mora Hidalgo (CRc) 1:41:02
39. Rodrigo Herrera Solorzano (CRc) 1:42:00
40. Arnoldo Loaiza Duran (CRc) 1:44:13
41. Felipe Castro Barquero (CRc)
42. Iñigo Labat Yanguas (Spa) 1:45:10
43. Allan Padilla U. (CRc) 1:47:06
44. Pablo Castrillo (CRc) 1:49:04
45. Iker Maíz (Mex) 1:51:20
46. Carlos Calvo Ramazzini (CRc) 1:51:33
47. Kenneth Sanabria (CRc)
48. Roberto Monge Brenes (CRc) 1:51:39
49. Leonel Gomez Navarro (CRc) 1:52:21
50. Walter Blanco (CRc) 1:53:58
51. Andrew Slayton (USA) 1:53:59
52. Monte Hewett (USA) 1:55:39
53. Van Dupree Council (USA) 1:56:28
54. Mario Albertry Rodriguez Sequeira (CRc) 1:57:48
55. Matthew Ohran (USA) 2:00:27
56. Carlos Robles Cordero (CRc) 2:05:37
57. Juan Pablo Venegas Herrera (CRc) 2:05:47
58. Max Araya Orozco (CRc) 2:06:13
59. Rolando Flores Guerrero (Mex)
60. Fernando José Hernandez Brenes (CRc) 2:07:02
61. Carlos Arce Estrada (CRc) 2:07:46
62. Seraphin John Millon (USA) 2:10:45
63. Leonel Chacon Chan (CRc) 2:11:24
64. Ron Rel (USA) 2:13:52
65. Mauricio Richmond Padilla (CRc) 2:15:14
66. Jon Christian Carmichael (USA) 2:15:42
67. Luis Arias Muñoz (CRc) 2:16:26
68. Julio Mena monge (CRc) 2:20:04
69. Luis Rubi Quant (CRc) 2:21:56
70. Bruno Carvalho (PRc) 2:22:19
71. Christopher Music (CRc) 2:24:12
72. Dirk Luttekes (Ned) 2:24:16
73. Gigi Giyora Stahi (CRc) 2:25:17
74. Mauricio Alvarado Rivera (CRc) 2:28:19
75. Danny A. corrales Zecca (CRc) 2:33:09
76. Rafael Mesen Solis (CRc)
77. Scott Kuppersmith (USA) 2:33:11
78. Joe Czempoyesh (Can) 2:39:41
79. Ben Morris (USA) 2:40:17
80. David John Burke (Can)
81. John Paul Matzigkeit (USA) 2:40:50
82. Javier Jose Gurdian Astua (CRc) 2:45:00
83. Martin Lorenzo y Lozada (Uru) 2:45:05
84. Peter Ackerman (Swi) 2:47:26
85. Gabriel Dario Montero Ramos (Ecu)
86. Jonathan Chaves Calvo (CRc) 2:55:57
87. Thomas F Smith (USA) 2:56:11
88. Esteban Roman (CRc) 2:56:48
89. Mark Christopher Rago (USA) 2:58:04
90. Ronan Garnier (Fra) 2:59:55
91. Modesto Jimenez Vargas (CRc) 2:59:57
92. Alejandro Arias Victory (CRc) 3:01:06
93. Rob Bilich (Cro) 3:01:10
94. Jorge Salazar (CRc) 3:02:48
95. Francisco Sanchez Castillo (CRc) 3:03:14
96. Robert Quinn (USA) 3:04:13
97. Braulio Esteban Leiva Perez (CRc) 3:04:22
98. David Leal Cruz (CRc) 3:05:16
99. Gustavo Padilla Umaña (CRc) 3:06:30
100. Mario Alberto Sanchez Hernandez (CRc)
101. Juan Simon Ocaña Ortiz (Mex) 3:09:01
102. Erick Diaz Vivian (Mex) 3:12:55
103. Manuel Marco (Mex) 3:14:21
104. Geovanny Gomez Navarro (CRc) 3:15:28
105. Rodolfo Mata Lobo (CRc) 3:22:05
106. Alejandro Cruz Arroyo (CRc) 3:23:00
107. Wilbert Solis Azofeifa (CRc) 3:23:12
108. Rafael A. Salazar Castro (CRc) 3:27:17
109. Edgar Gomez Castaño (Mex) 3:28:00
110. Andres Fernandez (CRc) 3:30:47
111. Johann Kroll (Aut)
112. Silvia E. Cespedes Quesada (CRc) 3:32:30
113. Odd Mjaland (Nor) 3:34:39
114. David Johnston (Can) 3:38:42
115. Marcel Bachmann (Swi) 3:41:58
116. Carlos José Achan Sanchez (CRc) 3:44:04
117. John Christopher Sagebiel (USA) 3:46:58
118. Anthony Damico Jr (USA)
119. Andrew Merrick (Can) 3:50:19
120. Alan Arguello Diaz (CRc) 3:50:22
121. Martin Fuentes Ruiz (CRc) 3:52:20
122. Julio Molina Arias (CRc) 3:55:03
123. Donald Godinez Godinez (CRc) 3:58:11
124. Ignacio S. Merino Lanzilotti (Mex) 4:04:50
125. Olman Nuñez Varela (CRc) 4:07:22
126. Thomas Sandi campos (CRc) 4:09:52
127. Chris Waldron (Can) 4:11:09
128. Mauricio J. Ortiz Odio (CRc) 4:15:02
129. Henry Wong Castro (CRc) 4:15:11
130. Lawson Willard (USA) 4:19:20
131. Jerry José Zamora Rojas (CRc) 4:25:18
132. Alberto José Gamboa Pacheco (CRc) 4:25:40
133. Heart Akerson (USA) 4:27:02
134. Robert Gehlen (USA) 4:27:06
135. Jorge Miranda Gutierrez (Mex) 4:30:55
136. Jorge Ricardo Schiller (Mex) 4:33:06
137. Fernando Salazar Martinez (Mex) 4:34:59
138. Manuel Ulloa Gil (CRc) 4:39:57
139. Diego Gil Jimenez (CRc) 4:40:28
140. Luis Eduardo Peralta Orozco (Mex) 4:40:32
141. Javier Sanchez Carranza (CRc) 4:41:11
142. Marco Antonio Leal Gomez (Mex) 4:46:23
143. Fidel Garza Chapa (Mex) 4:47:26
144. Alvaro José Salazar Kruse (CRc) 4:47:45
145. Patrick Haines (CRc) 4:52:32
146. Gilbert Castro Chavarria (CRc) 5:02:45
147. Giancarlo Loria Fonseca (CRc) 5:10:43
148. Thomas Harvey (GBr) 5:12:35
149. Rolf Blancke (CRc) 5:18:23
150. Richard Arden (GBr) 5:27:05
151. Rodrigo H. Gonzalez Gonzalez (Mex)
152. Mario Eduardo Hurtado Perez (Mex) 5:34:25
153. Rogelio Barragan Sanchez (Mex)
154. Hesiquio Merino Lanzilotti (Mex)
155. Diego Rapetti (Uru) 5:48:30
156. Carlos Loria Loria (CRc) 6:10:37
157. Reuven Sztejfman (Isr) 6:29:25
158. Christopher Hoe (USA)
DNF Alfredo Peralta Collado (CRc)
DNF Jason Sager (USA)
DNF Dax Jaikel (CRc)
DNF Brent Sparkman (USA)
DNF Roger Herrera (CRc)
DNF Pablo Gamez (CRc)
DNF Juan Carlos Contreras Rave (CRc)
DNF Federico Amador Leon (CRc)
DNF Ricardo E. Aguirre (Mex)
DNF William Blanco (CRc)
DNF Steven R. Long (USA)
DNF Greg Thompson (USA)
DNF Walter Fernandez Vargas (CRc)
DNF Gem Pham (USA)
DNF Juan Manuel Bordallo Murillo (CRc)
DNF Ron Castia (USA)
DNF Francisco Alfaro Morales (CRc)
DNF Pavel Popiolek (Cze)

GC after Stage 3

Women
1. Angela Parra Sierra (Col) 17:30:42
2. Louise Kobin (USA) 28:31
3. Rebecca Rusch (USA) 58:19
4. Brenda María Muñoz Arce (CRc) 2:55:46
5. Jane Rynbrandt (USA) 3:26:46
6. Ligia Madrigal (CRc) 3:57:15
7. Dianna Ineman (USA) 6:01:03
8. Kristin Kopec (Can) 6:55:07
9. Sandra Pereira M.O. Garnier (PRc) 8:24:28
10. April Sky Herring (USA) 8:38:11
11. Cassandra Lean Stamm (USA) 9:57:25
12. Dawn Fidler (USA) 11:45:09
13. Kathy Salisbury (USA) 11:49:37
14. Lena Yarbrough (USA) 13:40:29

Men
1. Benjamin Sonntag (Ger) 13:47:56
2. Alex Grant (USA) 2:29
3. Federico Ramirez Mendez (CRc) 4:00
4. Milton Ramos (CRc) 9:54
5. Luis Leao Pinto (Por) 18:08
6. Eddy Perez (CRc) 45:08
7. Alexander Sanchez Calderon (CRc) 45:35
8. Manuel Prado (CRc) 52:14
9. Ismael Ventura sanchez (Spa) 1:05:01
10. Samuel Tyler Schultz (USA) 1:06:35
11. Thomas Turner (USA) 1:30:05
12. Alfredo Cesar Acosta Gonzalez (CRc) 1:35:20
13. Santos Corea Gutierrez (CRc) 1:42:37
14. Leonard Jason Tullous (USA) 1:55:32
15. Juan carlos Fallas Rodriguez (CRc) 2:20:46
16. Juan Carlos Marin Valenciano (CRc) 2:54:19
17. Blake Harlan (USA) 2:59:50
18. James Andrew Lehman (USA) 3:18:48
19. Luis Diego Chaverri Madden (CRc) 3:31:48
20. Javier Lanzuela Sanchez (Spa) 4:00:55
21. Mario Alfredo Meneses Bonilla (CRc) 4:13:55
22. Adam Pulford (USA) 4:20:41
23. Daniel Perez (USA) 4:45:53
24. Corey Scobie (USA) 4:47:18
25. Felix Arratzoa Arrechea (Spa) 4:50:13
26. Alvaro José Lanuza Viquez (CRc) 4:51:44
27. Fernando Salazar (CRc) 4:58:21
28. Javier Badilla Badilla (CRc) 5:25:05
29. Marco Amador Jimenez (CRc) 5:35:21
30. Jose Santos Blandon Miranda (CRc) 5:45:10
31. Rodrigo Herrera Solorzano (CRc) 5:47:05
32. Victor Alonso Araya Pereira (CRc) 5:52:10
33. Heiner Mora Quiros (CRc) 5:52:37
34. Eric Kollai (USA) 6:03:10
35. Felipe Castro Barquero (CRc) 6:05:47
36. Iñigo Labat Yanguas (Spa) 6:08:31
37. Allan Padilla U. (CRc) 6:08:41
38. Arnoldo Loaiza Duran (CRc) 6:12:01
39. Anthony Steve Fonseca Sanchez (CRc) 6:13:05
40. Pablo Castrillo (CRc) 6:13:18
41. Stephanus Francois Millard (RSA) 6:16:51
42. Luis fernando Mora Hidalgo (CRc) 6:17:06
43. Juan Pablo Venegas Herrera (CRc) 6:19:33
44. Leonel Gomez Navarro (CRc) 6:31:41
45. Max Araya Orozco (CRc) 6:44:15
46. Walter Blanco (CRc) 6:50:53
47. Monte Hewett (USA) 6:53:38
48. Iker Maíz (Mex) 7:00:50
49. Carlos Arce Estrada (CRc) 7:13:50
50. Van Dupree Council (USA) 7:16:16
51. Matthew Ohran (USA) 7:19:18
52. Andrew Slayton (USA) 7:31:46
53. Mauricio Alvarado Rivera (CRc) 7:50:16
54. Roberto Monge Brenes (CRc) 7:55:29
55. Luis Arias Muñoz (CRc) 7:58:13
56. Rolando Flores Guerrero (Mex) 8:00:08
57. Leonel Chacon Chan (CRc) 8:00:53
58. Fernando José Hernandez Brenes (CRc) 8:01:10
59. Luis Rubi Quant (CRc) 8:16:16
60. Julio Mena monge (CRc) 8:16:57
61. Dirk Luttekes (Ned) 8:17:46
62. Ben Morris (USA) 8:18:40
63. Mario Albertry Rodriguez Sequeira (CRc) 8:20:38
64. Seraphin John Millon (USA) 8:23:35
65. Christopher Music (CRc) 8:24:33
66. Gigi Giyora Stahi (CRc) 8:35:13
67. Scott Kuppersmith (USA) 8:39:02
68. Mauricio Richmond Padilla (CRc) 8:42:25
69. Carlos Robles Cordero (CRc) 8:52:13
70. Kenneth Sanabria (CRc) 8:54:14
71. Joe Czempoyesh (Can) 8:59:33
72. Jon Christian Carmichael (USA) 9:01:39
73. Mario Alberto Sanchez Hernandez (CRc) 9:16:48
74. John Paul Matzigkeit (USA) 9:18:03
75. Gabriel Dario Montero Ramos (Ecu) 9:34:02
76. David John Burke (Can) 9:42:31
77. Peter Ackerman (Swi) 9:44:49
78. Rafael Mesen Solis (CRc) 9:54:03
79. Geovanny Gomez Navarro (CRc) 9:56:27
80. Andres Fernandez (CRc) 9:57:58
81. Wilbert Solis Azofeifa (CRc) 10:09:11
82. Modesto Jimenez Vargas (CRc) 10:12:19
83. Rob Bilich (Cro) 10:16:05
84. Danny A. corrales Zecca (CRc) 10:18:22
85. Alejandro Arias Victory (CRc) 10:24:29
86. Jonathan Chaves Calvo (CRc) 10:26:46
87. Carlos Calvo Ramazzini (CRc) 10:27:57
88. John Christopher Sagebiel (USA) 10:29:53
89. Martin Lorenzo y Lozada (Uru) 10:32:58
90. Thomas F Smith (USA) 10:38:33
91. Braulio Esteban Leiva Perez (CRc) 10:38:44
92. Mark Christopher Rago (USA) 10:40:31
93. Andrew Merrick (Can) 10:41:32
94. Bruno Carvalho (PRc) 11:06:41
95. Carlos José Achan Sanchez (CRc) 11:10:08
96. Erick Diaz Vivian (Mex) 11:12:41
97. David Leal Cruz (CRc) 11:13:26
98. Juan Simon Ocaña Ortiz (Mex) 11:21:52
99. Jerry José Zamora Rojas (CRc) 11:45:37
100. Francisco Sanchez Castillo (CRc) 11:52:31
101. Jorge Salazar (CRc) 11:53:41
102. Robert Quinn (USA) 11:57:02
103. Ronan Garnier (Fra) 11:57:45
104. Johann Kroll (Aut) 12:02:24
105. Anthony Damico Jr (USA) 12:07:42
106. Chris Waldron (Can) 12:22:52
107. Silvia E. Cespedes Quesada (CRc) 12:25:08
108. David Johnston (Can) 12:29:04
109. Martin Fuentes Ruiz (CRc) 12:48:55
110. Thomas Sandi campos (CRc) 12:58:50
111. Rafael A. Salazar Castro (CRc) 13:00:59
112. Marcel Bachmann (Swi) 13:09:37
113. Julio Molina Arias (CRc) 13:20:06
114. Alan Arguello Diaz (CRc) 13:22:03
115. Henry Wong Castro (CRc) 13:25:49
116. Olman Nuñez Varela (CRc) 13:26:30
117. Fernando Salazar Martinez (Mex) 13:30:38
118. Alberto José Gamboa Pacheco (CRc) 13:34:04
119. Diego Rapetti (Uru) 13:36:23
120. Lawson Willard (USA) 13:37:28
121. Ignacio S. Merino Lanzilotti (Mex) 14:04:11
122. Rodolfo Mata Lobo (CRc) 14:08:52
123. Manuel Marco (Mex) 14:09:41
124. Fidel Garza Chapa (Mex) 14:21:49
125. Esteban Roman (CRc) 14:31:48
126. Luis Eduardo Peralta Orozco (Mex) 14:34:14
127. Robert Gehlen (USA) 14:35:24
128. Mauricio J. Ortiz Odio (CRc) 14:54:20
129. Heart Akerson (USA) 15:00:05
130. Patrick Haines (CRc) 15:08:39
131. Manuel Ulloa Gil (CRc) 15:08:53
132. Jorge Ricardo Schiller (Mex) 15:27:36
133. Diego Gil Jimenez (CRc) 15:38:39
134. Alvaro José Salazar Kruse (CRc) 15:48:19
135. Javier Sanchez Carranza (CRc) 16:25:08
136. Rolf Blancke (CRc) 16:38:40
137. Thomas Harvey (GBr) 17:28:19