Monica Bascio and Alejandro Albor continued to march into the Sadler's Ultra Challenge record book on Friday, while Matt Updike and Tony Iniguez captured their first titles as the 267-mile handcycle and wheelchair race from Fairbanks to Anchorage concluded Friday with an 8.5-mile time trial and ceremonial finish in downtown Anchorage.

Bascio, from Evergreen, Colo., captured her fourth title in the women's handcycle division, while Albor won for the third time by capturing the men's C handcycle championship. Updike, of Denver, won the men's B handcycle division and Iniguez, who hails from Boling Brook, Ill., won the men's wheelchair category.

The top finishers in each class shared in a $26,000 purse that was handed out at a gala post-race banquet on Friday night in Anchorage.

All four winners garnered sizable leads on the first day of the six-day race on the hills between the starting line on the Parks Highway near Ester and Nenana. From that point on, it was a matter of seeing how much the winning margin would be.

Updike won his first crown by a little more than 16 minutes, while Albor had an advantage of about 38 minutes in his division. Bascio captured her fourth title by more than an hour and Iniguez was well over two hours ahead of his nearest competitor.

Updike completed the 255.5-mile race (the course was a few miles short because the race started in Ester instead of Fairbanks) in 14 hours, 15 minutes and 33 seconds, to edge Peer Bartels of Leer, Germany, who had an overall time of 14:33:06.

David Abrutat of Cheltenham, England, was third in 15:39:17, followed by Scott Davidson of Shelby Township, Mich., in 16:20:56, Josh Sharpe of Navarre, Fla., in 17:30:28 and Robert Lynn of Denver in 18:33:13.

The six racers finished Friday's time trial in the same order, Updike (21:50), Bartels (22:30), Abrutat (23:27), Davidson (24:51), Sharpe (25:04) and Lynn (26:20).

Albor averaged 19.95 mph on the course and finished with a time of 12:48:08, the only racer to break the 13-hour barrier, to lead the eight-racer men's C handcycle class. Albor's U.S. Paralympics Team partner, Seth Arseneau of Albuquerque, N.M., took second place in 13:26:20 and Elmar Sternath of Otterfing, Germany was third in 13:31:16.

Mario Farfan of the Bronx, N.Y., head up the next three racers with a time of 16:27:42, followed by Joe Dowling of Old Greenwich, Conn., in 16:52:06 and Jack Beaulieu of Rockville Center, N.Y., in 17:03:38.

Alaska's Kevin Jackson of Anchorage and Larry Coutermarsh of North Pole rounded out the division with times of 18:04:58 and 22:39:55, respectively.

Albor and Sternath both finished the time trial in 19:52, with Arseneau third in 20:38. The rest of the field was Farfan in 22:24, Dowling in 23:55, Beaulieu in 25:19, Coutermash in 25:27 and Jackson in 25:55.

Bascio clocked a 18:15:02 and averaged 14 mph in winning her fourth straight women's crown. Canadians Colette Bourgonje of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and Linda Hamilton of St. Catharines, Ontario, were second and third respectively, in 21:23:10 and 26:01:27.

In Friday's time trial, Bascio finished in 25:02, while Bourgonje crossed in 27:47 and Hamilton finished in 29:35.

Iniguez posted a time of 19:16:23, followed by James Lilly of Brookfield, Ill., in 22:59:25 and Yevgeniy Tetyukhin of Kasakhstan in 30:06:28 in the men's wheelchair event. Iniguez finished the time trial in 26:51, while Lilly notched a 27:35 and Tetyukhin registered a 36:41.

All 20 racers who started the event last Sunday in Fairbanks finished the course on Friday in downtown Anchorage.