Colorado resident Lesley Mumford, who claims to have “transitioned” to a woman in 2017, won the top spot in the women’s category at Sunday’s 100-mile Desert Gravel Co2Ut. Still, he
on the winner’s stand-alone when the runners-up refused to attend the medal ceremony, according to the“I have no idea why so many people bailed before the podiums, but they did,” Mumford wrote as a caption to a photo showing him standing alone on the winner’s stand.Mumford was sixth overall in the women’s category and beat out 35 female competitors.
The paper added that the race did have an official “non-binary” category, but Mumford did not enter it, preferring to compete as a woman. Mumford didn’t just win in the 40-49 female age group, either. He totally blew the runners-up out of the water, beating the second-place woman by 17 minutes and the third-place winner by a whopping half an hour.
Neither the second-placed Lindsey Kriete nor the third-placed Michelle Van Sickle has explained publicly why they skipped the winner’s stand photo op. Still, many are calling their disappearance a “silent protest,” including three-time Olympian, 10-time National Champion, and medalist at the Tour de France, Inga Thompson.