{"id":641471,"date":"2026-05-01T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641471\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:03:09","slug":"ben-perry-4th-at-traka-360-as-mads-wurtz-schmidt-smashes-10-hour-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641471\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Perry 4th at Traka 360 as Mads W\u00fcrtz Schmidt smashes 10-hour barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mads W\u00fcrtz Schmidt delivered quite the ride on Friday. It\u2019s definitely one that will stick for a while on the gravel scene. The former WorldTour pro won Traka 360 after a long-range move in the hills around Girona. The Dane attacked with around 100 km still to race and never looked back, stopping the clock in 9 hrs 57 minutes to become the first rider to break the ten-hour mark at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Perry shines in Spain<\/p>\n<p>Behind him, France\u2019s Hugo Drechou limited his losses but still finished several minutes down, while Matt Beers rounded out the podium. <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/ben-perry-celebrated-his-champs-jersey-with-a-full-on-canada-party\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada\u2019s Ben Perry<\/a> put in a strong ride to take fourth, mixing it with some of the biggest names in gravel\u2013including multiple Tour de France stage winner Romain Bardet, who finished in 5th.<\/p>\n<p>Kl\u00f6ser vs. Dubau-Pr\u00e9vot<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s race was a WorldTour square off. It saw Rosa Kl\u00f6ser (CANYON\/\/SRAM zondacrypto) come out on top after distancing Axelle Dubau-Pr\u00e9vot (EF Education-Oatly) in the closing kilometres. The pair had gone clear together earlier, but Kl\u00f6ser proved strongest late. Dubau-Pr\u00e9vot, half-sister of PFP, is the reigning French gravel champion and finished 10th at Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge back on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>For complete results for all the categories, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetraka.com\/results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thetraka.com<\/a>, and be sure to check back tomorrow for a follow-up story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mads W\u00fcrtz Schmidt delivered quite the ride on Friday. It\u2019s definitely one that will stick for a while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[239198,49,48,635,82,239199],"class_list":["post-641471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ben-perry","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-the-traka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}