Photos by Mary Alice Murphy, with a closeup courtesy of Sandy Feutz
Tour of the Gila 2015 Sunday podium
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The second podium lady, Kasha Blair balances on impossible shoes.
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One of the podium ladies, Britney Moreno, holds a Mimbres bowl to present to a stage winner
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In the junior women citizen's race, Maya Eilert won for Michael Mahl, Ella Myers and Ella Jaz Kirk, her Aldo Leopold High School friends, who died last year in a plane crash. Miriam Frisch took second and Ava Bjornstad, third.
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Katie Hall, Mara Abbott and Brianne Nalder stage winners.
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Mara Abbott is one happy rider for winning her fifth Tour of the Gila Race. Photo Courtesy of Sandy Feutz
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Best young female rider was Optum's Jasmin Glaesser
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United Health Care Women's Team was the overall women's winner in the Tour of the Gila-?`^
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Mara Abbott took overall winner and queen of the mountain, with Jasmin Glaesser as best young rider and Allison Jackson, the points winner
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Overall winners in UCI women: on the top spot, Mara Abbott, with Katie Hall of UHC in second place and Lauren Stephens of Tibco in third
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Third place to Al Senf of Ziavelo, at right; second to Vince Dietch; and first to Walter Doehrr, center, for 45+ Master Men A
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Overall UCI Team Winner-Optum Kelly
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Editor's Note: I could not write down many of the names, so if you see yourself in a photo and want yourself identified, please email me at editor@grantcountybeat.com and be specific about which photo it is, what category and which winner you are.
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