September 2020 - Volume 4 - Issue 9 On The Pegs September 2020 | Page 88

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The tenth annual Kenda Tennessee
Knockout took place at the Trials Training
Center (@trialstrainingcenter) in Sequatchie,
Tennessee on the weekend
of August 14-16. Canada’s Trystan Hart
took his first TKO win over six-time winner
Cody Webb. Chile’s Benjamin Herrera
finished third ahead of Noah Kepple and
Keith Curtis, who rounded out the top
five.
Nearly 300 amateur riders competed on
Friday and Saturday gunning for the AMA
Amateur Extreme Enduro Grand National
Championship. Danny Lewis took the win
in the championship-deciding second
round on Saturday. Will Riordan finished
second and Tyler Kincaid rounded out
the podium. Those three along with the
other top 30 finishers got the opportunity
to compete in the Sunday competition
against the twenty-six pre-qualified pro
riders.
Hart dominated the Sunday competition,
winning all four rounds of racing,
including the main event, which included
just the top fifteen riders. The Sunday
course included some brutal new sections
including the Four Logs, Walk in the Park
and a new hill climb that Hart was the first
to ever climb in TKO competition.