{"id":41918,"date":"2000-02-28T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2000-02-28T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/update-on-the-independencia-bicycling-race-4\/"},"modified":"2000-02-28T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2000-02-28T01:43:56","slug":"update-on-the-independencia-bicycling-race-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/02\/28\/update-on-the-independencia-bicycling-race-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Independencia Bicycling Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan cyclist Hussein Monsalve won the 6th stage of the Vuelta Cicl&iacute;stica Independencia Nacional, a major cycling event in the Caribbean. He finished first on the 160 kms. Santiago-La Cumbre-Puerto Plata-Imbert-Navarrete-Mao distance. On Saturday, Wendy Cruz won the 7th stage circling the Monumento a los H&eacute;roes in Santiago. On Sunday, Gustavo Carrillo, of the Asociaci&oacute;n de Nueva York, won the last round. The grueling competition is taking cyclists through most of the DR (1,145.4 kilometers) from 20-27 February. It is an officially sanctioned International Cycling Union race. International teams came from St. Martin, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Cura&ccedil;ao, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Panama, Honduras and several US states (New York, Florida, Illinois and Texas). Fourteen DR-based teams participated, for more than 200 cyclists. Venezuela won the team trophy, followed by Mauricio B&aacute;ez (Dom) and Montecarlo (Dom). The race schedule was as follows:  Sunday, 20 February: 11 am. Closed circuit around Mirador del Sur Park (144 kms). Winner: Wendy Cruz (Alico-Dom)  Monday, 21 February: 10 am. Santo Domingo-Boca Chica-San Pedro de Macor&iacute;s-La Romana (116 kms). Point of departure: Ministry of the Armed Forces-Plaza de la Bandera. Winner: Wendy Cruz (Alico-Dom) Tuesday, 22 February: 9:30 am. La Romana-San Pedro de Macor&iacute;s-Santo Domingo (120 kms). Point of departure: Parque Duarte in La Romana. Winner: Chris Frederick (Miami) Wednesday, 23 February: 9:30 am. Santo Domingo-Bonao (89 kms). Winner: Abraham Emile (Asoduci-NY). 3 pm. La Vega-Santo Cerro-Jarabacoa (75 kms). Winner: Alexis Mendez (Ven) Thursday, 24 February: 9:30 am. La Vega-Bonao-Piedra Blanca-Cotu&iacute;-Pimentel-San Francisco de Macor&iacute;s (150 kms). Winner: Rafael D&iacute;az (Montecarlo-Dom) Friday, 25 February: 9:30 am. Santiago-La Cumbre-Puerto Plata-Imbert-Navarrete-Mao (160 kms) Winner: Hussein Monsalve (Ven) Saturday, 26 February: 9:30 am. Closed circuit Monumento a los H&eacute;roes de la Restauraci&oacute;n in Santiago (120 kms). Winner: Wendy Cruz Sunday, 27 February: 9:30 am. Santiago- Bonao-Villa Altagracia-Santo Domingo (158 kms.) Winner: Gustavo Carrillo (Asociaci&oacute;n de NY)  Teams:  Venezuela 76:42:41 Mauricio B&aacute;ez-Dom 76:50:35 Montecarlo-Dom 77:01.52 Bolivia 77:22.12 Jaimis Columbus-Miami 77:22.47  General classification after stage 7b: Alexis Mendez (Ven) 25:50.11 Jos&eacute; Iba&ntilde;ez (Bol) 25:51.19 Julio Rangel (Col) 25:51.22 Chris Frederick (Miami) 25:52.30 Manuel Medina (Ven) 25:52:57  Sprints: Chris Frederick (Miami) 27 Romanosky Medina (Pinturas Popular-Dom) 19 Carlos de Le&oacute;n (Alico-Dom)16 Abraham Emile (Asoduci-NY) 16 Milton Ramos (Honduras) 13  Points: Wendy Cruz (Alico-Dom) 33 Alexis Mendez (Ven) 29 Hussein Monsalve (Ven) 27 Steven Mluyeak (Miami) 22 Donny Lopez (NY-Dom) 18  Mountains: Alexis Mendez (Ven) 37 Hussein Monsalve (Ven) 26 Jos&eacute; Ib&aacute;&ntilde;ez (Bolivia) 24 Julio Rangel (Colombia) 18 Guillermo Chaparro (Honduras) 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan cyclist Hussein Monsalve won the 6th stage of the Vuelta Cicl&iacute;stica Independencia Nacional, a major cycling event in the Caribbean. He finished first on the 160 kms. Santiago-La Cumbre-Puerto Plata-Imbert-Navarrete-Mao distance. On Saturday, Wendy Cruz won the 7th stage circling the Monumento a los H&eacute;roes in Santiago. On Sunday, Gustavo Carrillo, of the Asociaci&oacute;n &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/02\/28\/update-on-the-independencia-bicycling-race-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}