Ivar Slik won Unbound Gravel 200 in 2022 The Garmin Unbound Gravel presented by Craft returns the first Saturday in June with five racing distances, including the signature 200-mile event with a mass-start for men and women in downtown Emporia, Kansas. All the routes take in the rugged roads in the Flint Hills of Kansas, defined with sharp rocks and hilly terrain across the Tallgrass Prairie in the middle of the US.
Unbound Gravel 100 is a competitive, shorter-distance option, designed to serve as a “stepping stone” towards the Unbound Gravel 200.
Unique aspects to these races include the remote roads used for routes through vast prairie lands, the checkpoints participants must locate to follow the correct course, and a “do not call us” policy for breakdowns and injuries.
The Unbound Gravel 200 on June 3, is the first of four gravel races in the Life Time Grand Prix and the second stop in the series. The series will be contested by an invitation-only field of 35 women and 35 men for an equally-split prize purse of $250,000, paid to the top 10 riders with the most points accumulated from five of the seven events.
Last year, Sofia Gomez Villafane won the women’s division of Unbound Gravel 200 with a solo effort across the final 80 miles, her overall time 10 hours, 27 minutes, 40 seconds. Lauren De Crescenzo , the 2021 champion, trailed 9 minutes later for second place, and Emily Newsom was third for the second year in a row, another […]
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