Belgian bike race winner

Logan Owen, 21, Bremerton, April 16 won the prestigious Liege-Bastogne-Liege Espoirs bicycle race in Belgium.

He is the first USA bicyclist to win this race since its 1986 inception.

Participants included 175 riders from around the world.

Owen started racing in bicycle motocross (BMX) at age 4, then went on to road racing and Cyclo-Cross, a type of racing which, for the most part, is off-road with part on pavement.

Riders encounter grass, dirt, mud, gravel and sand.

Owen dominated the USA Cycling Cyclo-Cross National Championship with wins 10 years in a row, beginning in 2005.

His mother, Kimberly Young Owen, graduated from Oakesdale High School.

His grandparents are George and Doloris Young, also of Oakesdale.