GORHAM The most successful women's mountain cyclist in Mount Washington history, Marti Shea, is now the second fastest.

A Manchester native, Shea, 49, now of Marblehead, Mass., turned in a personal best performance of 1:03:14 and won her third consecutive Mount Washington Bicycle Hillclimb here Saturday.

Shea, a standout athlete at Manchester Memorial High School and a former all-America distance runner at Boston University, is also the only women's winner the Newton's Revenge competition, staged here annually in July, has ever known. She now has nine bicycle triumphs over the 7.6-mile Auto Road to the mountain's 6,288-foot summit. Shea's Saturday time was second only to the 58:14 turned in by course record holder Jeannie Longo in 2000.

Times were quick in the men's field as well, as 2012 Revenge winner Cameron Cogburn, 26, of Cambridge, Mass., became the first male to sweep the summer races on the mountain and the second fastest man ever, winning in 52:28.

Tom Danielson, of East Lyme, Conn., is the lone male who has pedaled quicker. His course record of 49:24, set in 2002, is one of three faster times that he has posted.

The race featured seven different cyclists completing the steepest mountain bicycle hillclimb in the world in under one hour.

Leroy Popowski, 37, of Colorado Springs, Colo., was second in 53:47 and Peter Hurst, who started in the second wave, finished third in 54:03.

Race results coolrunning.com.

New Hampshire's top male finisher was 17-year-old Chad Young of Newmarket whose bid to finish under one hour was denied by two seconds. He was eighth.

Weather conditions were ideal as a slight breeze barely stirred the 45 degree summit temperature.

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