Hotter'N Hell Hundred

Hotter'N Hell Hundred
Race details
Date	August
Region	Wichita Falls, Texas
Discipline	Road
Competition	National calendar
Type	One-day race
History
First edition	1984
Editions	41 (as of 2023)
Most recent	Dušan Kalaba (SRB)

The Hotter'N Hell Hundred is an annual bicycle race in Wichita Falls, Texas. It is held each year on the 4th or 5th Saturday in August (always nine days before Labor Day) and includes professional as well as amateur riders. The professional racers ride a 100-mile road race, as well as time trials and criterium. For the amateur riders, there are road routes of 100 mi, 100 km, 50 mi, 25 mi, and 10 km. The amateur routes are also open for inline skating. Approximately 10,000 to 14,000 riders participate each year, making the Hotter'N Hell Hundred the largest sanctioned century bicycle ride in the U.S. 2009's Hotter'N Hell had over 14,000 riders.

The race was first held in 1982 as part of the Wichita Falls Centennial Celebration. The name is thus a rare example of a triple entendre: one hundred miles (i.e., century) in one hundred degree Fahrenheit weather (the race is held in August, where temperatures in Wichita Falls frequently reach and exceed this level by noon), initially conducted to celebrate the city's 100th anniversary.

The race begins at 7:05 am. Participants in the 100 mile route must reach "Hell's Gate" at the 60 mile mark no later than 12:30 pm or else cannot qualify to finish the 100 mile segment, instead doing a shorter route. Averaging 20 miles an hour it is possible to complete the ride in five hours or less for well-prepared athletes, however most complete in six to nine hours.

Additional events are held throughout the weekend including mountain bike races.

Winners edit

Year	Winner	Second	Third
1992	Roy Knickman
1993	Roy Knickman
1994	David Mann
1995	Kent Bostick	Colby Pearce	Jorge Espinosa
1996	Kent Bostick
1997	Eric Wohlberg	Colby Pearce	Olin Bakke
1998	Julian Dean	Eric Wohlberg	David Clinger
1999	Eric Wohlberg	Kent Bostick	Steve Speaks
2000^[1]	Sylvain Beauchamp	Chris Fisher	Dirk Friel
2001^[2]	Clark Sheehan	Jesse Keefer	Dirk Friel
2007	Aaron Smathers	Edgar Ibarra	Brad Huff
2010	Logan Hutchings	Joshua Carter	Russ Walker
2013	Matt Stephens	Augusto Sánchez	David Wenger
2015	Nicholas Torraca	Jacob White	Mike Sheehan
2017	Julio Padilla	Grant Koontz	Tristan Uhl
2018	Mike Sheehan	Stefan Rothe	Pablo Cruz
2019	David Tolley	Tanner Ward	Kyle Swanson
2020	Cancelled
2021	Pavle Kalaba	Justin McQuerry	Doug Frenchal
2022	Doug Frenchak	Pavle Kalaba	Eli Husted
2023	Dušan Kalaba	Hasani Hennis	Pavle Kalaba