Highlights
- Melisa Rollins and Alexey Vermeulen both claim solo victories in Cable.
- Sofía Gómez Villafañe leapfrogs Cecily Decker to move to the top of the women’s overall standings.
- Keegan Swenson’s overall lead in the men’s competition is cut to just one point.
- Only two points now separate Swenson, Simon Pellaud and Torbjørn Andre Røed at the top of the men’s series.
- Today’s leaderboard shakeups and narrow margins make for a fierce battle for the Series crown at the final two races in northwest Arkansas
| Cable, Wisconsin (Saturday, September 13th): Melisa Rollins and Alexey Vermeulen both produced incredible attacks to claim solo victories in the 2025 edition of the Life Time Chequamegon Mountain Bike Festival. Rollins made the earliest break of the day shortly after mile 23. She pulled away from an elite group of four riders after the tough Firetower climb and then continued to press home her advantage all the way into Cable, where she crossed the line with a four minute and 32 second-winning cushion, repeating her success of 2021. That left series leader Cecily Decker, Alexis Skarda and defending champion Sofía Gómez Villafañe to battle it out for second spot. Villafañe produced an explosive late sprint to take second as Skarda took third, narrowly beating out Decker for top three. Vermeulen left it until the closing stages to make his decisive move with about three miles to go. He left a pack of 14 riders behind to take his third victory at Chequamegon, this time by a gap of eight seconds. The fight for the runners-up spot was hotly contested, and it was Kyan Olshove who proved the fastest finisher, with Brendan Johnston then outsprinting Torbjørn Andre Røed for third place. Those results meant Rollins has closed the gap on both Villafañe and Decker at the top of the overall standings in the women’s competition. Rollins now trails Villafañe by just 10 points in third position. Villafañe leapfrogged Decker back into first place, opening up a two-point lead in the process. Vermeulen’s triumph has seen him rise from seventh to fourth place overall, and the top of the men’s standings is looking much tighter. Keegan Swenson’s advantage was cut to just one point following his 12th-placed finish. Simon Pellaud holds on to second place overall in the Life Time Grand Prix, after finishing seventh overall on the day. Torbjørn Røed is now just a point behind Pellaud in third. |
| Women’s results: 1 – Melisa Rollins (2hr 14min 05sec) 2 – Sofía Gómez Villafañe (2hr 18min 39sec) 3 – Alexis Skarda (2hr 18min 40sec) 4 – Cecily Decker (2hr 18min 40sec) 5 – Erin Osborne (2hr 20min 28sec) Men’s results: 1 – Alexey Vermeulen (1hr 56min 35sec) 2 – Kyan Olshove (1hr 56min 43sec) 3 – Brendan Johnston (1hr 56min 43sec) 4 – Torbjørn Andre Røed (1hr 56min 44sec) 5 – Cobe Freeburn (1hr 56min 44sec) Click HERE (women) and HERE (men) and for the full race results. |
