Gabby Durrin and Jeremy Powers Take StarCrossed Wins – Updated: Full Results, Gallery

by Robert Grunau

StarCrossed returned as a UCI race this year and several of US cyclocross’s top riders were on hand at the race, which took place at Marymoor Velodrome, just a short drive from Seattle out in Redmond, WA. With less than a week to go until CrossVegas, the race was a good indicator of who is holding some early season form.

Gabby Durrin (neé Day) (Rapha-Focus) took top honors on the dry bumpy course, after distancing herself from three-woman group containing Bellingham, WA, native Courtney McFadden (Bicycle Blue Book, HRS, Rock Lobster) and Canada’s Mical Dyck (Stan’s NoTubes) at the race’s mid-point. McFadden and Dyck were the only ones who could follow in the race’s early stages, but in the end, Durrin’s attacks were too much. Durrin crossed the line with a healthy thirty-second gap over McFadden.

The men’s race played out a bit differently, with the lead changing nearly every lap. Raleigh-Clement’s Ben Berden was the early instigator and held on with a lead group containing Jeremy Powers (Rapha-Focus), Ryan Trebon (Cannondale p/b Cyclocrossworld.com) and National Champion Jonathan Page (Fuji/Competitive Cyclist).

Powers and Trebon were able to distance themselves from Berden and Page, who stuck close together after Page shut door on the Belgian as he was attempting to hop the barriers on the fourth lap.

Powers and Trebon carried a large gap through the last lap, with Powers taking the victory against Trebon after gapping him at the stairs and using that gap to best him in a two-up sprint down the course’s final stretch. Berden was able to drop Page on the last lap, giving the Belgian the third step of the podium.

After the race Powers complemented Berden on his barrier hopping skills, to which “Big Ben” replied, “I spent all summer practicing.”

Some race notes from StarCrossed 2013:
The race featured a rematch of the top three from the 2013 Raleigh Midsummer Nights Cyclocross Race, with the top three from the July race finishing in reverse order in Seattle, with Berden third, Page fourth, and Decker fifth. It was a small bit of revenge for Page, who of course would have preferred to win, but finished one place ahead of Decker, who was racing a cyclocross bike (as required by UCI regulations).

JT Fountain was racing his singlespeed within the top ten before suffering a mechanical and finishing an impressive 13th place.

Missing from the Elite Men’s race was 2013 Junior National Champion Logan Owen, who will race with the U23 and Elites this year.

Most of the top male racers were on disc brakes, due to either sponsor requirements or personal choice.

StarCrossed 2013 Elite Men Results

Rank	Name	Nat.	Age*	Result	Uci Pts
1	Jeremy POWERS	USA	30	1:01:56	40
2	Ryan TREBON	USA	32	1:02:18	30
3	Ben BERDEN	BEL	38	1:02:18	20
4	Jonathan PAGE	USA	37	1:02:23	15
5	Carl DECKER	USA	38	1:02:26	10
6	James DRISCOLL	USA	27	1:02:26	8
7	Allen KRUGHOFF	USA	29	1:02:30	6
8	Steve FISHER	USA	23	1:02:34	4
9	Adam CRAIG	USA	32	1:02:36	2
10	Spencer PAXSON	USA	29	1:02:37	1
11	Aaron SCHOOLER	CAN	28	1:02:40
12	Troy WELLS	USA	29	1:03:08
13	Joseph FOUNTAIN	USA	38	1:03:16
14	Benjamin SONNTAG	GER	33	1:03:33
15	Russell STEVENSON	USA	37	1:03:56
16	Kevin BRADFORD-PARISH	USA	31	1:04:10
17	Kevin NOILES	CAN	33	1:04:10
18	Brennan WODTLI	USA	25	1:04:10
19	Tyler TRACE	CAN	29	1:05:56
20	Gian DALLE ANGELINI	USA	25	1:05:56
21	Logan WETZEL	USA	26	1:05:56
22	Ian CRANE	USA	24	1:05:57
23	Adam MCGRATH	USA	26	1:06:10
24	Kevin CALHOUN	CAN	34	1:06:44
25	Chris ELLIS	USA	28	1:06:44
26	Molly CAMERON	USA	37	1:07:35
27	Kris HOLDEN	USA	37	1:08:18
28	Carson MILLER	USA	24
29	John FLACK	USA	44
30	Sherwood PLANT	CAN	24
31	Kyle MCGILVRAY	USA	28
32	Al SENFT	USA	45
33	Yoshitaka HAMA	JPN	29

 

StarCrossed 2013 Elite Women Results

Rank	Name	Nat.	Age*	Result	UCI Points
1	Gabriella DAY	GBR	29	44:44:00	40
2	Courtenay MCFADDEN	USA	28	45:07:00	30
3	Mical DYCK	CAN	31	45:13:00	20
4	Susan BUTLER	USA	42	45:14:00	15
5	Jessica CUTLER	USA	34	45:33:00	10
6	Beth Ann ORTON	USA	32	45:47:00	8
7	Caroline MANI	FRA	26	46:19:00	6
8	Jean Ann BERKENPAS	CAN	29	46:28:00	4
9	Rebecca GROSS	USA	33	46:30:00	2
10	Marsa DANIEL	USA	35	46:30:00	1
11	Tina BRUBAKER	USA	45	46:30:00
12	Jennifer GAERTNER	USA	38	46:34:00
13	Natalie KONCZ	USA	37	46:39:00
14	Andrianna ZOLTON	USA	28	48:13:00
15	Joele GUYNUP	USA	28	48:14:00
16	Alexandra BURTON	USA	32	48:39:00
17	Annemarije ROOK	NED	26	48:42:00
18	Katie MELENA	USA	35	48:49:00
19	Kari STUDLEY	USA	33	48:57:00
20	Heidi WOOD	USA	28	48:59:00
21	Shannon HOLDEN	USA	37	49:22:00
22	Karen WILKINSON	USA	53