Annual cycling and outdoor sports festival in Monterey, California
Sea Otter Classic
Race details
Date
April 18 - 21, 2024
Region
Monterey, California USA
Local name(s)
Sea Otter
Competition
Professional/Amateur
Type
Multi-discipline
Organiser
Sea Otter Classic, Inc.
Race director
J. Frost
Web site
www.seaotterclassic.com
History
First edition
1991 Laguna Seca Challenge
Editions
28
Ryan Trebon during the Elite Men's Short Track race at the 2009 Sea Otter Classic in Laguna SecaGee Atherton at the 2009 Sea Otter Classic
The Sea Otter Classic is a bicycling and outdoor sports festival and exposition held each spring since 1991 at the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. The four-day event is considered the world's largest cycling festival, drawing nearly 10,000 professional and amateur athletes and 74,000 fans. The Sea Otter Classic is named in honor of the southern sea otter, an indigenous mammal which flourishes along the neighboring Pacific coast.
The Sea Otter Classic was founded by Frank Yohannan and Lou Rudolph. The inaugural event was held 06–07 April 1991. The first two events were held under the name Laguna Seca Challenge. The event name was changed to the Sea Otter Classic in 1993.
In August 2021, Frank Yohannan, who has owned and operated the Sea Otter Classic for more than 30 years, found a new owner for the event — Life Time, Inc., a multi-billion dollar fitness and event company. Despite the change in ownership Yohannan will remain as director.
The seaotter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean. Adult seaotters typically weigh...
games, one of Cromwell's first international wins came in 2008 at the SeaOtterClassic in California, having made a solo attack in the last few laps despite...
Lake, California. In 2022 Strait built the Dual slalom track for the SeaOtterClassic. The Laguna Seca course had not been revamped since 2002. With hand...
events such as the SeaOtterClassic and Cactus Cup. He officially announced his retirement from racing at the SeaOtterClassic in 2000, but would later...
Examples of this include the Amgen Tour of California, Ironman, the SeaOtterClassic, and Crankworks. At the Amgen Tour of California (ATOC) SRAM was the...
Overall Cape Epic (with Howard Grotts) 1st Stages 5 & 6 3rd Life Time SeaOtterClassic 2022 2nd Belgian Waffle Ride California 2nd Rule of Three Texas 2023...
Ord that is now Bureau of Land Management land annually host the SeaOtterClassic "Celebration of Cycling". The event has now become the largest cycling...
Fairclough, Rachel Atherton, Manon Carpenter, and Tahnee Seagrave. The SeaOtterClassic, held each April at Laguna Seca near Monterey, California, is a major...
Cup, final round, Austria 1st Norba DH, Round 1, Big Bear 1st DH, SeaOtterClassic USA 5th Overall, 4X UCI Mountain Bike World Cup 1st 4X UCI Mountain...
Australia and America, where he won stages of the Herald Sun Tour and the SeaOtterClassic, respectively. Having moved to the French team Française des Jeux...
Bicycle Classic 1997 2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour 2nd First Union Invitational 3rd Overall Tour de Beauce 1998 1st Overall SeaOtterClassic 1st Overall...
in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, Cape Epic in South Africa; SeaOtterClassic in the United States; Mountain Mayhem in the United Kingdom; La Ruta...
Bromont 1st SeaOtterClassic 1999 1st Overall UCI World Cup 1st Madrid 2nd Napa Valley 2nd Sydney 2nd Big Bear Lake 2nd Canmore 1st SeaOtterClassic 2nd Cross-country...
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