{"id":45134,"date":"2021-08-18T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cyclist-dies-in-crash-during-leadville-trail-100-mountain-bike-race\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:23:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:23:41","slug":"cyclist-dies-in-crash-during-leadville-trail-100-mountain-bike-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cyclist-dies-in-crash-during-leadville-trail-100-mountain-bike-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist dies in crash during Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=10c806f7-d8da-537e-a933-807e0227a0b7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1328\" alt=\"Downtown Leadville (Wikimedia Commons)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Downtown Leadville (Wikimedia Commons)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A cyclist died while competing in the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the death have not been released, but several racers said the man died during a descent, possibly from injuries sustained in a high-speed crash or a medical incident that occurred while he was pedaling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire Leadville family is deeply saddened by the passing of an athlete,\u201d Jordan Titus, a spokesman for race owner Life Time, said in an emailed statement. \u201cThis athlete embodied the spirit of Leadville and our thoughts and sympathies are with their loved ones at this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lake County Sheriff\u2019s Office declined to comment on the fatality but said details of the crash could be released on Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the race said she was unable to comment \u201cout of respect for the participant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>News of the death was announced during Sunday\u2019s awards ceremony. Athletes said they shared an emotional moment of silence for the man.<\/p>\n<p>The fatality Saturday marks the second-ever death in the legendary race that began in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, 55-year-old Scott Ellis died of an apparent heart attack during the race. The 19-race veteran of the \u201cRace Across the Sky\u201d was climbing the grueling \u201cPowerline\u201d section of the course around mile 80 when he collapsed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" id=\"link-23f8de052ee306712da9382fdb65692d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-74f70339d3253f1d221d94393df458b8\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to covering Colorado issues. To learn more, go to coloradosun.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details of incident in legendary race have not been released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,977],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-mountain-biking"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86365,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45134\/revisions\/86365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45134"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}