document_title: List of The Next Step characters

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text: List of The Next Step characters

text: Cast[edit]

text: Main[edit]

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Actor
Character
Series

1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5

Alexandra Chaves
Piper
Does not appear
Main

Shelby Bain
Amy
Does not appear
Main

Myles Erlick
Noah
Guest
Recurring
Main

Isaiah Peck
Henry
Does not appear
Main

Dylan Ratzlaff
Jacquie
Does not appear
Main

Hanna Miller
Heather
Does not appear
Guest
Main

Jessica Lord
Lola
Does not appear
Main

Julian Lombardi
Ozzy
Does not appear
Main

Noah Zulfikar
Kingston
Does not appear
Main

Dawson Handy
Josh
Does not appear
Main

Briar Nolet
Richelle
Does not appear
Recurring
Main

Milaina Robinson
Zara
Does not appear
Main

Julian Elia
Elliot
Does not appear
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Victoria Baldesarra
Michelle
Main

Alexandra Beaton
Emily
Main
Recurring
Does not appear
Recurring
Main

Brennan Clost
Daniel
Main
Recurring
Main
Guest
Recurring
Guest
Does not appear
Main

Lamar Johnson
West
Main
Recurring
Main

Akiel Julien
LaTroy
Does not appear
Main
Recurring

Brittany Raymond
Riley
Main
Recurring

Trevor Tordjman
James
Main
Recurring

Erika Prevost
Sloane
Does not appear
Main
Guest

Skylar Healey
Skylar
Does not appear
Recurring
Main
Guest

Isaac Lupien
Eldon
Main
Recurring
Does not appear

Taveeta Szymanowicz
Thalia
Does not appear
Main
Recurring
Guest
Does not appear

Logan Fabbro
Amanda
Guest
Recurring
Main

Allie Goodbun
Cassie
Does not appear
Main
Does not appear

Giuseppe Bausilio
Alfie
Does not appear
Main
Does not appear

Jordan Clark
Giselle
Recurring
Main
Recurring
Does not appear

Cierra Healey
Cierra
Does not appear
Main
Recurring
Does not appear

Samantha Grecchi
Stephanie
Main
Recurring
Main
Recurring
Does not appear

Tamina Pollack-Paris
Tiffany
Main
Recurring
Does not appear
Guest
Does not appear

Devon Brown
Max
Guest
Main
Guest
Does not appear

Jennifer Pappas
Chloe
Main
Guest
Does not appear

Zac Vran
Hunter
Does not appear
Main
Recurring
Guest
Does not appear

text: ^ : Julian Elia (who play Elliot) is semi-regular main cast member in season 5.

text: Recurring[edit]

text:
Actor
Character
Seasons

1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5

Bree Wasylenko
Kate
Main
Does not appear
Recurring

Tyler Hutchings
Tyler
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear
Recurring

Danielle Ching
Danielle
Does not appear
Recurring

Jordan Letlow
Jordan
Does not appear
Recurring

Ben Jaremko
Adam
Does not appear
Recurring

Lesley Faulkner
Gail
Does not appear
Recurring

Levi Ryann
Theo
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear

Alex Zaichkwoski
John
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear

Kathryn Greco
Patricia
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear

Damian Goddard
Chuck Anderson
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear

Shane Harte
Luke
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear

Deshaun Clarke
Jude
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear

Natalie Krill
Phoebe
Does not appear
Main
Does not appear
Guest
Does not appear

Ella Gilling
Ella
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear
Guest
Does not appear

Megan Mackenzie
Beth
Recurring
Does not appear

Rachel Riley
Gabi
Recurring
Does not appear

Jaclyn Riley
Becca
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear

Jhaliel Swaby
Jake
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear

Nicholas Mairono
Nick
Guest
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear

Shamier Anderson
Chris
Recurring
Guest
Does not appear

Allain Lupien
Lucien
Guest
Recurring
Guest
Does not appear

Robbie Graham
Charlie
Guest
Recurring
Does not appear

Shantel Angela Vailloo
Shantel
Does not appear
Guest
Does not appear

Abigail Bergman
Abi
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear

Shannon Rendall
Shannon
Does not appear
Recurring
Does not appear

text: Main characters[edit]

text: Emily (portrayed by Alexandra Beaton)[1] A contemporary dancer. Emily is Riley and Matty's overprotective older sister, and former head of the E-Girls. In Season 1, she is quite bossy and rude when she is the A-Troupe Dance Captain

text: , but after being dethroned, her personality eventually shifts for the better after she goes to Elite then comes back. Emily is jealous of Michelle. She is used to Eldon's attention and admiration and takes him for granted, then gets jealous when he starts to develop feelings for Michelle instead. She and Michelle later become co-captains. She dates Eldon briefly while she is at Elite, only for him to break up with her to be with Michelle. In Season 2, Emily and new guy, Hunter develop a plan in which she will hopefully get Eldon back, although she falls for Hunter in the process. The two briefly date, only for her to be forced to break up with Hunter by Amanda, in the hopes of bringing her down. She and West later develop feelings for each other, but they remain friends. After obtaining a knee injury at Nationals, Emily is forced to leave the studio for a year, losing an opportunity to compete at Internationals. She has medium length blonde hair, blue eyes, and pale skin.

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Michelle (portrayed by Victoria Baldesarra)[1] A new contemporary dancer who moved to Toronto Ontario from Madison, Wisconsin and previous Miss Nationals soloist who Emily is jealous of. She quickly becomes enemies with Emily and the E-Girls. She starts to fall for Eldon, resulting in a fight for him between her and Emily. Michelle dethrones Emily as Dance Captain and later, at the latter of a nasty feud, she and Emily become co-captains. She briefly dates Eldon at the end of Season 1, but he breaks up with her in Season 2. She leaves The Next Step Dance Studio in Season 2 because of all the drama, especially with the arrival of former "boyfriend" Hunter and her break-up with Eldon, but then returns after realizing that she truly loves dance. She reclaims the title of Miss Nationals Soloist once more in Season 2. In Season 3, her parents go through a divorce and she goes through a lot emotionally, so she steps down as Dance Captain, then becomes an alternate for Internationals. In the Hotel dance (the blindfold round) at Internationals, she gives up her position because "I can't let someone who's on the actual team not dance". She helps Stephanie's confidence. After West gets food poisoning from a kebab, she has to take up his spot, due to a previous agreement from Amanda, another alternate. However, West comes dressed to the stage and wants to dance in the semifinals so Michelle has to step back which she then learns. She has wavy blonde hair (which was cut to shoulder length in Season 2), brown eyes, and lightly tanned skin. In Season 4, a fellow dancer Alfie helps her to up her game and she feels ready. In Season 5, Emily becomes the studio head of A-Troupe (which then becomes TNS East) and hires Daniel as her choreographer. Emily does not pick any hip-hop dancers, breakdancers, J-Troupers or doubters onto her A-Troupe and instead only technical and disciplined dancers. This upsets Michelle who eventually quits A-Troupe and decides to form her own troupe, TNS West.
Riley (portrayed by Brittany Raymond)[1] A shy contemporary and hip hop dancer who is Emily's younger sister and Matty's older sister and Ella's ex-best friend. In Season 1, she is a member of the E-Girls but gets kicked out by her sister when she stands up to Emily in favor of Michelle. Riley seems to have a crush on James in Season1, then starts to date James in Season 1.5, but later breaks up with him in Season 2, after seeing him and his ex-girlfriend, Beth kiss during their duet rehearsal. In Season 2.5, Riley makes a list of tasks for James to complete before she would get back together with him. Riley and James get back together and perform a duet at Nationals. In Season 3, she makes the Internationals team, and befriends the mischievous English transfer Ella, who starts to change Riley and strain her relationship with James. Ella is Riley's best friend all the way up until Internationals. At Internationals, Ella steals her solo in the Female solo round and Riley doesn't want to be friends with Ella anymore. In the semifinals, they will have to face on England, Ella's team, who already cheated The Next Step once already. Ella's team, Summerford Dance Academy, does a beautiful routine about a girl in the woods who is surrounded by scary trees. The Next Step do a routine where everyone does old-fashioned dancing and then James walks and the rest show him how to dance in that way. Then James shows then hip-hop and the routine is a combination of two dances. The Next Step win the semifinals and Ella asks Riley if they can be friends again but Riley refuses. In Season 1, she has medium-length brown hair and brown eyes. In Season 2, her hair is cut into a bob. In Season 3, she grows her hair longer. She wears braces for the first 2 seasons, and gets them removed in Season 3. In Season 4, she becomes Studio Head when Kate steps down in order to take a position as a judge in a dance competition in England. After the Regionals loss, Riley decides to leave The Next Step and go to business school.
James (portrayed by Trevor Flannagan-Tordjman)[1] An easy going break dancer who struggles in math. James is the overprotective older brother of Piper and Deborah's only son. He has dated many girls, but feels differently about Riley and begins to fall in love with her and starts to date her in Season 1.5. When dance is starting to affect his school work, his mother pulls him from the studio until he gets his grades up. When he returns, he gets offered Daniel's solo after he gets injured, but turns it down. Riley and James continue their relationship in Season 2, but she breaks up with him when she finds him kissing his ex, Beth, during their duet rehearsal, resulting in them giving up their Nationals duet and James and Beth getting together. He then breaks up with Beth in Season 2 because he still has feelings for Riley. Riley makes a list of tasks for James to complete before she would get back together with him. Later in Season 2.5, Riley and James get back together and get their Nationals duet back from Giselle and Thalia. He makes the Internationals team in Season 3, and his relationship with Riley is going smoothly until the British transfer Ella starts to get involved. He does his last dance at the International tie breaker in the finals with Riley as he decides to leave The Next Step to carry on playing the drums in his band, who he began to work with at the start of Season 3. In Season 4, he competes with Eldon and West at the Bangers and Mashups International Hip-Hop Extravaganza. In Season 1 and 2 he has short hair. In Season 3, he grows his hair longer.
Eldon (portrayed by Isaac Lupien)[1] A contemporary dancer who had been obsessed with fellow dancer Emily for years. In Season 1, he continues to show Emily how much he likes her and ask her out, much to her disgust. After she humiliates him one too many time, Eldon decides to move on and like Michelle instead. He dates Emily briefly in Season 1.5, but breaks up with her in the season finale to be with Michelle. In Season 2, he has a good relationship with Michelle until her ex-boyfriend, Hunter, joins the studio. He challenges Eldon to a dance battle, with the winner getting Michelle as their prize. Eldon loses to Hunter, so he backs off Michelle and later breaks up with her in Season 2.5. In Season 3, he and fellow dancer Thalia start to fall for each other. James tells Eldon that when he can do 30 pirouettes, he will be ready to date Thalia. In the spinning contest at Internationals, James abandon the 30-pirouette rule, and tells Eldon that if he wins the round, he can date Thalia. Eldon wins the round by spinning the longest and wins Thalia. They kiss when The Next Step win the mystery song round, due to Eldon's win. In Season 4, Eldon has light blonde hair and blue eyes, and pale skin. Eldon leaves the Next Step at the beginning of Series 4 and competes with West and James at the Bangers and Mashups International Hip-Hop Extravaganza. He also makes a guest appearance in Season 5 where he agrees to choreograph a Regionals routine for both Emily's studio, TNS East and Michelle's studio, TNS West.
Daniel (portrayed by Brennan Clost)[1] A ballet and contemporary dancer who is selfish. He mostly focuses on what's best for his career, and not what is best for his team. In Season 1.5, he injures his ankle landing a jump. Later in the season, he fractures it when doing a lift with his ex-best friend, Giselle. He is then unable to participate in Regionals and leaves the studio for a while. He returns in Season 2 with his ankle healed. When he does not get the male solo, he threatens to leave the studio and join Chris's studio, Superstar Dance. He leaves the Next Step after Kate refuses to give him the solo. He later competes against Eldon in the male solo round at Nationals, and loses. He gets offered an audition for Juilliard, but it doesn't go well for him. He returns in Season 3 as a member of Elite Dance studios to compete for a spot on the Internationals team. He loses his spot to Giselle. During Internationals he finds out that Lucien is a judge. He wants to save The Next Step from Lucien so he sends an email with a video attachment to Giselle. The video shows Lucien trying to take down The Next Step with him and Tess. Daniel's voice is heard in the background but it isn't too influencing. Giselle shows this to Miss Kate, who then shows it to the woman in charge of Internationals. She gets two policemen to take Lucien out after showing the video to the man who owns the studio of the Swedish team, who says that Lucien should have been "screened more carefully" and Miss Kate is very happy that Lucien is removed. Daniel auditioned for a spot at Juilliard but he failed his audition. Daniel was denied the chance to return to The Next Step. After realizing how mean he was Daniel leaves dance for good. He has brown hair, chocolate brown eyes and tanned skin. However, in Season 4, he leads the auditions for A-Troupe, as if it wasn't for him, The Next Step would not have been able to dance in the finals of Internationals. In Season 5, Emily picks him to be the head choreographer for A-Troupe which later becomes TNS East.
Stephanie (portrayed by Samantha Grecchi)[1] A bossy jazz dancer and Emily's best friend. Her parents aren't very supportive of her dancing career and she relies on Emily for encouragement. She wants to be famous and because of her parents' absence, relies mostly on Kate for advice, and sees her as a "mother figure". She is the main saboteur of Season 1, committing almost all the sneaky acts to defend Emily as dance captain. She is the only member of A-Troupe who sticks by Emily. She tried out for Elite with Emily, but didn't make it. She auditioned for a role on a TV show and got it, but turned it down after realizing it was being filmed the same week as Regionals. After the auditions for Nationals, Stephanie is cut from A-Troupe along with Tiffany. Stephanie had always wanted to be a triple threat (actress/singer/dancer). Stephanie can be seen singing in the song "Play the Game" for the next step. She is also seen singing with Jennifer papps aka Chloe and Victoria Baldasarra aka Michelle on the next step 'on set'. Stephanie's inspirations run from Grande to Beyonce just like Tiffany. Her triple threat classes were the reason she was late and failed the audition routine denoting her to B-troupe. Later when Chloe leaves The Next Step to join a ballet touring company, Stephanie takes her place. In Season 4, Stephanie leaves The Next Step in order to go to Los Angeles to pursue her career as a triple threat after leading the auditions for A-Troupe.
West (portrayed by Lamar Johnson)[1] A friendly hip hop dancer, he is smart at some times but says it in a silly way, he can be really funny at times. He hates drama, and while he doesn't always share his opinion, when he does most people are often confused by it. He rarely makes sense, but uses this to his advantage in multiple instances to get out of sticky situations. It was revealed that he used to be in a street dance group, Seeds, who gave him the nickname 'Compass', in "Dancing in the Street". He makes it to the Nationals team in Season 2. At the end of season 2 he kisses Emily but later becomes 'just friends' with her. In Season 3, West gets onto the internationals team and is challenged by Eldon to audition for a ballet company and asks Chloe for help. He doesn't get in but she does, causing her to leave The Next Step. At Internationals, before the semi-finals round, West gets food poisoning, thought to be from a kebab. He is unable to dance in the semi-finals and Michelle takes up his spot, as she and Amanda agreed to take the spots of people that they had chosen, and Michelle took West as one of hers. However West does dance in the semi finals and afterwards there is no signs of him being ill. He leaves the Next Step at the beginning of Series 4 because he wants to travel the world and does not want to wait for the next Internationals to do so. He competes with Eldon and James at the Bangers and Mashups International Hip-Hop Extravaganza. In Season 5, Michelle picks him to become the head choreographer of TNS West.
Cierra (portrayed by Cierra Healey)[1] A contemporary dancer who spent the first two seasons at Elite with Max, Shantel and Amanda. She is the older sister of Skylar and has to compete against her for a spot on the Internationals team. Cierra makes it to A-Troupe whilst Skylar switches from Elite to B-troupe. She does not make it to the team in Series 4.
Shantel (portrayed by Shantel Angela Vailloo)[1] A dancer who is a single player and does not care what anyone thinks about that while she spent the first two seasons at Elite with Cierra, Max and Amanda. She left The Next Step after losing to Giselle in the Dance Captain competition with a lot of jealousy.
Noah (portrayed by Myles Erlick)[1] A contemporary dancer who was in J-Troupe in season two with Richelle but moved up to A-Troupe in season three with Richelle (until she lost to Max in the battle.) He was in a band with James in season two. In season three, he develops a crush on Elite dancer Abi, and when she transfers to The Next Step, he starts to talk to her more, but is unable to explain his feelings, or even talk to her properly. However at the surprise party of Amanda coming back to The Next Step, he gets to know Abi more and they kiss whilst dancing together. In Season 4, he makes it onto A-Troupe again. However, he has a severe back injury which meant that The Next Step lost the first qualifier for Regionals. He dates Amanda during this season, however, during the Off Season, they break up. In Season 5, he falls in love with Jacquie after meeting her at a dance workshop led by Daniel. However, Jacquie is Henry's ex-girlfriend and Henry is Noah's best friend. After realising Michelle's troupe is the better of the two, Noah decides to leave TNS East and join TNS West.
Richelle (portrayed by Briar Nolet) Acro dancer, Ballet dancer, Contemporary dancer who is determined to become dance captain of A-Troupe one day. She has a crush on Noah in season 3. As a J-Troupe Member, Auditions for "The Challenge". After Emily leaves The Next Step because of her knee Kate put Richelle on A-Troupe but lost to Max in the battle and went down to B-Troupe with new member Skylar, Gabi and Shannon. Richelle is then moved to B-troupe, where she befriends Abi, an ex-Elite dancer, and unfortunately, Noah's crush. Richelle first likes Noah in season 3, but she gives up on him. However, at one point in Season 3, Phoebe tells the B-troupers to partner up with an A-trouper. Noah and Richelle are put together, and after Richelle sees Noah blow raspberries and gets chocolate spread around his mouth, she strongly dislikes him. In Series 4, Richelle joins A-Troupe for the Regionals team but loses dance captaincy to Skylar. In Season 5, she becomes dance captain of TNS East.
Max (portrayed by Devon Brown)[1] A lyrical dancer who was at Elite in season 1 and 2 with Shantel, Cierra and Amanda. He joined A-Troupe in season 3 after beating Richelle in the dance battle for a spot on the Internationals team. Max is great friends with West, James and Eldon. In Season 4, Max leaves The Next Step so he can go to university as he feels The Next Step have helped him crack out of his shell and that he is ready to move on to a new chapter.
Chloe (portrayed by Jennifer Pappas)[1] A shy ballet dancer whose parents can't afford her dancing at the studio. She has to work a part-time job as a waitress while being a member of A-Troupe as well as an E-girl. As Season 1 progresses, she becomes less and less of an E-girl until things eventually boil over and she secretly joins Michelle's group until Stephanie catches the group rehearsing and sees Chloe with them. In the Season 1 finale she sides with Michelle, and seems to show no remorse for it. In Season 1.5, everyone finds out about her job and give her huge tips to pay for A-Troupe. In Season 2, Kate gives Chloe a job at The Next Step to teach dance to little kids (even though Chloe is afraid of kids). One of those kids named Margie became Chloe's guardian angel. when Chloe had a problem Margie was there for her and finally in season 3 when Chloe gets offered a position in The Nutcracker and can't decide if she will compete in internationals or act in the nutcracker, and West convinced Chloe to take the role (because Margie told him to) and after she told Kate, Margie came to the room with Chloe and danced with her one last time Chloe found out that Margie was an angel literally after she disappeared.
Tiffany (portrayed by Tamina Pollack-Paris)[1] A bubbly hip hop dancer and member of E-Girls. She has been shown to love gossip. In the Season 1 finale, when everyone is forced to choose who they want as Dance Captain, she sides with Michelle to cover herself, shocking Emily and Stephanie, and possibly costing her her spot as an E-Girl, while at the same time gaining her respect with the rest of A-Troupe. Tiffany loves gossip, but sometimes it can seem to backfire on her. She is cut from A-Troupe after the Challenge for getting onto the Nationals Team after struggling with the spinning section of the routine. She then thinks if she even belongs at the Next Step anymore. Tiffany disappears from The Next Step after the mall dance for Michelle. It can be assumed that she left The Next Step. She isn't featured much anywhere else and there is no trace of her in Season 3. Where she is remains a mystery but it is sensible to predict that she left the studio. In Season 4, we see that she is an administrator for a dancing tour company. In Season 5, we hear that Tiffany is a studio head.
Giselle (portrayed by Jordan Clark)[1] A sweet acro dancer who is Daniel's ex-best friend and the older sister of Clara. She was formerly an A-Troupe member and E-Girl, but gets kicked out of the E-Girls when she is demoted to B-Troupe. She waited right at the door to come in A-Troupe. When Emily and Stephanie leave The Next Step, and A-Troupe has B-Troupe auditions, Giselle, who is one of Emily's best friends, replaces Emily. She and Daniel grew up together, and partly why she was so devastated about not getting into A-Troupe was because she felt like she let him down. Daniel has not said anything about their friendship though. Giselle makes it to the Nationals team in Season 2. Giselle becomes dance captain in Season 3. She takes the Female solo round in Internationals after Ella steals Riley's choreography. Giselle leaves The Next Step during Season 4 to become a professional dancer.
Hunter (portrayed by Zac Vran) Michelle's old love interest and ex-boyfriend. In the Season 2 one-hour special, Michelle tells him that she has moved on and leaves Hunter heartbroken. But he and Emily try to make Michelle jealous. Then Hunter challenges Eldon to a dance battle over Michelle, with the winner gets to be with her. Hunter wins, meaning Eldon has to break up with Michelle. However, we then find out that Amanda was filming the dance battle and Amanda shows the video to Michelle who then shows it to Kate. Kate decides to give Hunter the solo, which makes Eldon dislike Hunter more. Then, in "You're the one that I want" Hunter finally takes Michelle on a date and realises he'd rather be with Emily. Later on in that episode, Hunter is rehearsing his Nationals Solo and admits his feelings to Emily, kissing her. Then Hunter does not get in the Internationals team as he gets beaten by Eldon and moves back to Madison. He does a goodbye dance with Eldon, West and James.
Thalia (portrayed by Taveeta Szymanowicz) New A-Troupe member in Season 2. Thalia is a contemporary dancer from a studio who has won Nationals before. In Season 2, Thalia did a duet with Giselle and won Small Group with Amanda and Giselle.[1] In Season 3, Thalia develops feelings for Eldon, but can't date him until he can do 30 pirouettes, according to James. However, after Eldon wins the turning round at Internationals, she finally got to date him, after making friends with a Polish man named Baruk. Just after Eldon and Thalia get together, Bartek's team (Poland) leave Miami, after getting beaten by England due to their five-point advantage (due to Ella's solo) in the mystery song round. In Season 4, Thalia leaves to join Bartek's studio in Poland and discover her Polish heritage.
Amanda (portrayed by Logan Fabbro) Contemporary dancer and Dance Captain of Elite Dance Academy, The Next Step's rival studio. Sometimes, she was referred to as "Elite's old Emily", referring to Emily's rude nature before. Sometimes, she was seen tormenting Emily, which makes her uncomfortable. In Season 2, she auditions for "The Challenge". In episode 4 (episode 1 extended = episode 1 2 and 3 ), she, as well as Thalia and Hunter, make the team. She secretly records Hunter and Eldon's battle on her phone and shows it to Michelle later on. She joined A-Troupe in Season 2 to stop them from reaching Nationals, but The Next Step caught her and sent her back to Elite. She dated James in the past, before Season 1. However she makes up with the Next Step when she takes Emily's spot in the final dance when Emily hurts her leg. In the middle of season 3, Kate sends Amanda to Sweden as part of the Internationals Exchange Programme because Kate revealed to Amanda she was an alternate and she wasn't one of the strongest dancers, therefore Amanda was not featured in the Internationals routines. Amanda returns after her trip at Sweden and finds out that a lot of events happened whilst she was away from The Next Step. She tells Michelle that Sweden are amazing and unbeatable at her welcome back party and that A-Troupe wouldn't even make it into their B-Troupe. At the beginning of Season 4, Amanda misses her A-Troupe audition as she chooses to audition for a world dance tour with Giselle. Miss Kate does not pick her onto the team but when Riley becomes studio head, she joins the team. She then starts dating Noah. Giselle later comes by to tell Amanda that she is welcome to join her on the world dance tour but that they will leave just before the final dance at Regionals. Amanda soon decides to stay with A-Troupe. However, during the final dance at Regionals, Amanda is taken off the final line-up and soon decides to leave A-Troupe to join Giselle on the world dance tour.
Ella (portrayed by Ella Gilling) An exchange dancer for the Internationals programme and Riley's ex-best friend. She is mischievous and comes from Summerford Dance Academy, England. Ella soon befriends Riley, telling her why she should wait around for James, and if she can do anything fun in the meantime. She changes Riley's sensible personality to a lively, mischievous personality, and they both pull many pranks. One prank is changing the Internationals letters from hotel information to an old-fashioned square dance. At first A-troupe is stressed and upset, but by the end of the day, they all lighten up and are happy about it. Ella's main goal for the prank was to stop A-troupe from being too uptight. They also wrap James' bad set in bubble wrap which he finds funny, but after Ella and Riley pull many pranks (including the square dance) he dislikes them, especially Riley. He is annoyed in the square dance prank, as he says the it's a waste of his band time. In Ella's last prank, which was to pretend that Riley's back had broken, James knew better and sussed it out. At Internationals, Ella betrays The Next Step by stealing Riley's solo and performing it herself to "On My Way". Riley ends her friendship with Ella after this. Giselle performs a solo instead to "When The War Is Over", but Ella still got the 5-point advantage and trophy. The Next Step learn that they will have to face England in the semi-finals and are questioning in whether Ella will betray them again. However The Next Step's semifinals routine beats England and Riley rejects Ella. Ella makes a guest appearance in Season 4 by telling James that Riley still loves him.
Piper (portrayed by Alexandra Chaves) A sensible contemporary dancer. Piper is the younger sister of James and one of Deborah's daughters. Piper didn't want to come to The Next Step at first because she didn't want to dance in James' shadow. After James quit dance to focus on his band, Piper took his place in A-Troupe. James is overprotective of Piper and he doesn't want to see his little sister get hurt. She is dismayed when Riley kisses Alfie and worried about the Jiley relationship but is later relieved when they make up. In Season 5, she originally becomes a member of TNS East but when Amy takes her spot, she joins TNS West and becomes the dance captain. She throws a dance-a-thon in which dancers have to dance for 12 hours in order to raise money for a scholarship so that less fortunate dancers can dance at TNS.
Alfie (portrayed by Giuseppe Bausilio) Alfie first appeared in Season 3 as the male soloist for Switzerland at Internationals. He auditions for A-Troupe in Series 4 and gets in. It is discovered during Season 4 that Alfie is a prince from Switzerland, but keeps it a secret to most of the troupe to avoid trouble and be able to dance. He develops feelings for Riley and they kiss during Season 4. He leaves The Next Step after Riley makes up with James but comes back before they dance at the finals. However, after The Next Step lose at Regionals, he leaves The Next Step.
Skylar (portrayed by Skylar Healey) Skylar is the younger sister of Cierra and a former member of Elite and joins B-Troupe after losing against Cierra in the dance battles to compete for a place on the Internationals team. Skylar auditions for A-Troupe in Season 4 and gets in. She does not make it into A-Troupe in Season 5.
Sloane (portrayed by Erika Prevost) Sloane is a hip-hop dancer who joins A-Troupe in Season 4. Her best friend is LaTroy, who later becomes her boyfriend. Sloane struggles to do any other dance styles apart from hip-hop. Sloane gets disqualified at Regionals when she uses choreography in a free-style round. In Season 5, Sloane leaves The Next Step after being offered to work with Luther Brown.
LaTroy (portrayed by Akiel Julien) LaTroy is a hip-hop dancer who joins A-Troupe in Season 4. His best friend is Sloane. He is Amy's boyfriend but soon he became Sloane's boyfriend in Season 4. After being forbidden to audition for A-Troupe by Emily, he decides to join Michelle's troupe, TNS West.
Amy (portrayed by Shelby Bain) Amy is an acro and jazz dancer who joins A-Troupe in Season 4. She is LaTroy's girlfriend throughout the fourth season, but he breaks up with her in the season finale after he realizes that he has feelings for Sloane. In Season 5, she auditions for A-Troupe but does not make it. She then decides to join Michelle's troupe, TNS West but is taken off when her mum sees her messing around. Piper then asks Emily and Daniel to let Amy audition and Amy replaces Piper on TNS East.
Henry (portrayed by Isaiah Peck) Henry is a hip-hop dancer who joins A-Troupe in Season 4. He joined to get his mind of Jacquie, his ex-boyfriend who said he was not a good enough dancer. However, he is shocked to see her in Season 5 and is even more shocked to see that she is dating his best friend, Noah. Henry auditions for A-Troupe but does not make it so he joins Michelle's troupe, TNS West.
Cassie (portrayed by Allie Goodbun) Cassie is jazz dancer who joins A-Troupe in Season 4. Later, Cassie is disappointed to become an alternate for Absolute Dance Regionals, but is encouraged by Henry. Although, Cassie does end up dancing at Regionals anyway. However, she decide to leave Studio prior to Season 5.
Jacquie (portrayed by Dylan Ratzlaff) Jacquie is a contemporary dancer who joins TNS East in Season 5. Prior to Season 4, she was Henry's girlfriend but she broke up with him because she thought he was not a good enough dancer. She is now dating Noah.
Zara (portrayed by Milaina Robinson) Zara is Jazz Funk dancer who joins TNS East in Season 5. She used to be a member of A-Troupe and she befriends Josh. She is also a mathematician but has to choose between maths and dance when her maths competition is scheduled on the day of the dance battle against TNS West.
Lola (portrayed by Jessica Lord) Lola is Jazz dancer who joins TNS East in Season 5. Prior to this, she was the dance captain of Encore Dance Studios but left there because she felt she did not have any friends. She arrives at The Next Step in the hope of making friends and instantly becomes best friends with Richelle. She is originally happy to get the solo in a routine being choreographed by Eldon but is then embarrassed when she realises that he mistook Jacquie for her. However, Jacquie comforts Lola and motivates her to work harder.
Josh (portrayed by Dawson Handy) Josh is Hip-Hop dancer who joins TNS East in Season 5. He used to be a hockey player but joins TNS East when Michelle quits A-Troupe in favour of forming TNS West.
Elliot (portrayed by Julian Elia) Elliot is a ballet dancer who joins TNS West in Season 5. He is extremely egoistic and thinks that without him, the team will not be successful. When he is paired with Piper in the dance-off against TNS East to decide where the dance battle to go to Regionals will take place, he forces Piper to agree to changing West's choreography which he deems "as bland as a piece of toast". However, after coming clean, Michelle orders him to leave TNS West but he strongly believes that the team is going nowhere without him.
Heather (portrayed by Hanna Miller) Heather is first seen in Season 4 as a member of Dance Extreme. She performs in the winning trio at the Regionals qualifier. At Regionals, she performs in the freestyle round against Sloane and wins. However, her team lose in the quartet round. During the Off Season, Heather becomes a barista at Neutral Grounds and is said to have quit dance after her parents not being able to afford it. She does a flip in Studio A and says that although she can no longer dance, she will always be a dancer. She always dances before Neutral Grounds opens but is embarrassed when Piper and Amy catch her dancing. She dances in Studio A which makes Piper encourage her to audition for TNS West. She is furious to hear about the dance-a-thon as it means that everybody knows about her financial problems, however, when Piper is unable to dance, she takes her place and ends up winning joint 1st place with Henry. After this success, she decides to join TNS West.
Ozzy (portrayed by Julian Lombardi) Ozzy is first seen in the Off Season as a member of J-Troupe when he is upset that Amanda quits teaching J-Troupe in order to be part of a famous dance tour but is ecstatic when he realises that Richelle is the new teacher and has an enormous crush on her. In Season 5, Emily forbids him from auditioning for A-Troupe so he joins Michelle's troupe, TNS West. He likes pranking others.
Kingston (portrayed by Noah Zulfikar) Kingston arrives at The Next Step upon West's invitation to join TNS West. He is a vlogger on YouTube who learned how to dance from watching online videos. He struggles to learn choreography which causes Michelle to take him off the troupe but his willingness to improve his dancing (as he joins Baby Ballet in order to get some proper training) causes Michelle to let him back onto the team.

text: Recurring Characters[edit]

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Beth (portrayed by Megan Mackenzie) One of the B-Troupe dancers. She is James' ex-girlfriend and wouldn't leave him alone, even though James doesn't like her back. In "Winner Takes All", she watches James and A-Troupe perform, and before they perform, admits she loves James. She asks him for help a lot in Season 2 and they become a couple later on, but James breaks up with her realizing he still has feelings for Riley. Beth soon realises that James doesn't love her like he loves Riley and she leaves him alone, after giving him a four leaf clover for one of the tasks on Riley's list.
Chris (portrayed by Shamier Anderson)[1] The former head choreographer at the Next Step, known for his 'Dolphin Tail' tactic for making the A-Troupe dancers pay attention. The sort of 'father figure' to the dancers, especially James, acting as a compassionate, helpful, and rarely serious male advisor. He leaves in Season 2 to become co-owner of a rival studio, Superstar Dance. Chris is a math whiz and tutors James when his mom threatens to pull him out of the studio due to his bad grades.
Kate (portrayed by Bree Wasylenko)[1] The former owner of The Next Step studio and Phoebe's sister. Elite Dance Studio owner Lucien is often seen always plotting against and teasing Kate, Phoebe and the A-troupe dancers. She is known to all as "Miss Kate". The sort of 'mother figure' to the dancers, especially Stephanie, as she does not have one, acting as the enthusiastic female advisor though she can be strict when she needs to be. Kate eventually leaves The Next Step as she is offered a job as a judge for a dance competition in the UK, due to The Next Step's success at Internationals and hands ownership to Riley.
Phoebe (portrayed by Natalie Krill) A yoga instructor and Kate's sister. She is the complete opposite of Kate, being more fun, but can get angry when people don't listen to her when she's talking. Phoebe is often seen as being not that bright, but she is an amazing dancer and choreographer. After Chris leaves for his new job, Kate calls Phoebe to take his position. When the dancers first meet her she appears rather strange and odd. Phoebe leaves The Next Step in Season 4 to swim with the turtles in the Galapagos Islands.
Lucien (portrayed by Allain Lupien)[2] The owner and head choreographer of the Elite Dance Academy. He is very rude as well, and makes fun of the fact that Kate owns The Next Step just because Kate's mother (who previously owned it) quit. He also is a schemer and does not like The Next Step ever since they beat Elite at Regionals and wants to beat The Next Step Studio once and for all. In Season 2, he gets Amanda to go undercover and pretend to be a member of A-Troupe. Amanda leaves them with 9 dancers. However, this plan backfires as Amanda realises her ways and becomes good. After Nationals, Lucien evicts The Next Step from their studio and would only offer them the studio if The Next Step merged with Elite to make a new team for Internationals. However, this plan backfires but he tries to bring them down one more time during the final round by becoming a judge. However, he is taken away.
Luke (portrayed by Shane Harte) The lead singer and guitarist of James' band. Luke is also a character on "Lost & Found: Music Studio"
Theo (portrayed by Levi Randell) A member of Luke's band and Giselle's love interest in Season 3. Theo is also a character on "Lost & Found: Music Studio"
John (portrayed by Alex Zaichkowski) A member of Luke's band. He is also a character on "Lost & Found: Music Studio" thus it is revealed on an episode of "Lost & Found: Music Studio" that he has a crush on Next Step dancer Michelle.
Deborah (portrayed by Viviana Zarrillo) James and Piper's overprotective mother. Deborah has a no nonsense personality. Deborah is concerned about James when his grades slip. Deborah thinks that James has been spending too much time on dance and not enough time on school. Michelle talks Deborah out of taking James out of The Next Step. Deborah reluctantly agrees to let James stay at the studio. She does take James out for two weeks and grounds him until his grades improve. Deborah doesn't approve of James doing dance and music as she wants him to focus on his education.
Abi (portrayed by Abigail Bergman) A ballet dancer and former student at Elite Dance Academy who transfers to The Next Step in Season 3. When Abi arrives at The Next Step she joins B-Troupe. Noah had a crush on her and at Amanda's welcome back party, they kissed and danced together.

text: Guest Stars[edit]

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Stacey Tookey (portrayed by Herself)[3] S1.5 - 4 episodes. One of the two hosts of the Absolute Dance Regionals Competition along with Chuck Anderson.
Chuck Anderson (portrayed by Damian Goddard)[2] Seasons 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 and 4.5 - 13 episodes approx. Hosts the Absolute Regionals, Nationals and Internationals Competitions with either Stacey Tookey, Tré Armstrong and Ashley Leggat, depending on the series.
Tré Armstrong (portrayed by Herself) Season 2.5 - 5 episodes. One of the two hosts of the Absolute Dance Nationals Competition along with Chuck Anderson.
Ashley Leggat (portrayed by Herself) Season 3.5 : - episodes. Hosts of the Absolute Dance Internationals Competition along with Chuck Anderson. Ashley Leggat is the former star of Life with Derek and Vacation with Derek.
Lindsey Russell (portrayed by Herself) Season 4 - 4 episodes. Announcer of the Bangers & Mashups International Hip-Hop Extravaganza, alongside "The Masked Man".
Tanisha Scott (portrayed by Herself) Season 4 - Chuck Anderson's co-host for the Absolute Dance Regionals.


document_title: Assassination of Julius Caesar

question_text: who was named sole heir after caesar’s assassination

question_tokens: who was named sole heir after caesar 's assassination

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text: Assassination of Julius Caesar

text: Background[edit]

text: Biographers describe tension between Caesar and the Senate, and his possible claims to the title of king. These events were the principal motive for Caesar's assassination.

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text: The Senate named Caesar dictator perpetuo ("dictator in perpetuity"). Roman mints produced a denarius coin with this title and his likeness on one side, and with an image of the goddess Ceres and Caesar's title of Augur Pontifex Maximus on the reverse. According to Cassius Dio, writing over 200 years later, a senatorial delegation went to inform Caesar of new honors they had bestowed upon him in 44 BC. Caesar received them while sitting in the Temple of Venus Genetrix, rather than rising to meet them.[3]

text: Suetonius wrote (almost 150 years later) that Caesar failed to rise in the temple, either because he was restrained by Cornelius Balbus or that he balked at the suggestion he should rise.[4] Suetonius also gave the account of a crowd assembled to greet Caesar upon his return to Rome. A member of the crowd placed a laurel wreath on the statue of Caesar on the Rostra. The tribunes Gaius Epidius Marullus and Lucius Caesetius Flavus ordered that the wreath be removed as it was a symbol of Jupiter and royalty. Caesar had the tribunes removed from office through his official powers.[5] According to Suetonius, Caesar was unable to dissociate himself from the royal title from this point forward.[6] Suetonius also gives the story that a crowd shouted to him rex ("king"), to which Caesar replied, "I am Caesar, not Rex".[6] Also, at the festival of the Lupercalia, while he gave a speech from the Rostra, Mark Antony, who had been elected co-consul with Caesar, attempted to place a crown on his head several times. Caesar put it aside to use as a sacrifice to Jupiter Optimus Maximus.[5]

text: Plutarch and Suetonius are similar in their depiction of these events, but Dio combines the stories, writing that the tribunes arrested the citizens who placed diadems or wreaths on statues of Caesar. He then places the crowd shouting "rex" on the Alban Hill with the tribunes arresting a member of this crowd as well. The plebeian protested that he was unable to speak his mind freely. Caesar then brought the tribunes before the senate and put the matter to a vote, thereafter removing them from office and erasing their names from the records.

text: Suetonius adds that Lucius Cotta proposed to the Senate that Caesar should be granted the title of "king", for it was prophesied that only a king would conquer Parthia.[7] Caesar intended to invade Parthia, a task that later gave considerable trouble to Mark Antony during the second triumvirate.

text: His many titles and honors from the Senate were ultimately merely that: honorary. Caesar continually strove for more power to govern, with as little dependence as possible on honorary titles or the Senate. The placating and ennobling of Caesar did not allay ultimate confrontation, as the Senate was still the authority granting Caesar his titles. Formal power resided in them, resulting in tension with Caesar.

text: Brutus began to conspire against Caesar with his friend and brother-in-law Gaius Cassius Longinus and other men, calling themselves the Liberatores ("Liberators"). Many plans were discussed by the group, as documented by Nicolaus of Damascus:

text: The conspirators never met exactly openly, but they assembled a few at a time in each other's homes. There were many discussions and proposals, as might be expected, while they investigated how and where to execute their design. Some suggested that they should make the attempt along the Sacred Way, which was one of his favorite walks. Another idea was to do it at the elections, during which he had to cross a bridge to appoint the magistrates in the Campus Martius. Someone proposed that they draw lots for some to push him from the bridge and others to run up and kill him. A third plan was to wait for a coming gladiatorial show. The advantage of that was, because of the show, no suspicion would be aroused if arms were seen. The majority opinion, however, favored killing him while he sat in the Senate. He would be there by himself, since only Senators were admitted, and the conspirators could hide their daggers beneath their togas. This plan won the day.

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text: Nicolaus writes that in the days leading up to the assassination, Caesar was told by doctors, friends, and even his wife, Calpurnia, not to attend the Senate on the Ides for various reasons, including medical concerns and troubling dreams Calpurnia had:

text: ...his friends were alarmed at certain rumors and tried to stop him going to the senate-house, as did his doctors, for he was suffering from one of his occasional dizzy spells. His wife, Calpurnia, especially, who was frightened by some visions in her dreams, clung to him and said that she would not let him go out that day. But [Decimus] Brutus, one of the conspirators who was then thought of as a firm friend, came up and said, 'What is this, Caesar? Are you a man to pay attention to a woman's dreams and the idle gossip of stupid men, and to insult the Senate by not going out, although it has honoured you and has been specially summoned by you? But listen to me, cast aside the forebodings of all these people, and come. The Senate has been in session waiting for you since early this morning.' This swayed Caesar and he left.

text: Caesar had been preparing to invade the Parthian Empire, (a campaign later taken up by his successor, Mark Antony) and planned to leave for the East in the latter half of March. This forced a timetable onto the conspirators. Two days before the actual assassination, Cassius met with the conspirators and told them that, should anyone discover the plan, they were to turn their knives on themselves.[8] His successors did attempt the conquests of Parthia and Germania, but without lasting results.

text: Ides of March[edit]

text: On the Ides of March (March 15; see Roman calendar) of 44 BC, the conspirators staged a game of gladiatorial sport at Pompey's theatre. The gladiators were provided by Decimus Brutus in case their services were needed. They waited in the great hall of the theatre's quadriportico.[9] Mark Antony, having vaguely learned of the plot the night before from a terrified Liberator named Servilius Casca,[10] and fearing the worst, went to head Caesar off at the steps of the forum. However, the group of senators intercepted Caesar just as he was passing the Theatre of Pompey, located in the Campus Martius (now adjacent to the Largo di Torre Argentina), and directed him to a room adjoining the east portico of the Theatre of Pompey.[11]

text: According to Plutarch, as Caesar arrived at the Senate, Lucius Tillius Cimber presented him with a petition to recall his exiled brother.[12] The other conspirators crowded round to offer their support. Both Plutarch and Suetonius say that Caesar waved him away, but Cimber grabbed Caesar's shoulders and pulled down Caesar's toga. Caesar then cried to Cimber, "Why, this is violence!" ("Ista quidem vis est!").[13] At the same time, Casca produced his dagger and made a glancing thrust at the dictator's neck. Caesar turned around quickly and caught Casca by the arm. According to Plutarch, he said in Latin, "Casca, you villain, what are you doing?"[14] Casca, frightened, shouted "Help, brother!" in Greek ("ἄδελφε, βοηθεῖ", "adelphe, boethei"). Within moments, the entire group, including Brutus, were stabbing the dictator. Caesar attempted to get away, but, blinded by blood in his eyes, he tripped and fell; the men continued stabbing him as he lay defenseless on the lower steps of the portico. According to Eutropius, sixty or more men participated in the assassination. Caesar was stabbed 23 times.[15] Suetonius relates that a physician who performed an autopsy on Caesar established that only one wound (the second one to his chest that pierced his aorta) had been fatal. This autopsy report (the earliest known post-mortem report in history) describes that Caesar's death was mostly attributable to blood loss from his stab wounds.[16]

text: Caesar was killed at the base of the Curia in the Theatre of Pompey.[17]

text: The dictator's last words are a contested subject among scholars and historians. Suetonius himself says he said nothing,[13] nevertheless, he mentions that others have written that Caesar's last words were the Greek phrase "καὶ σύ, τέκνον;"[18] (transliterated as "Kai su, teknon?": "You too, child?" in English).[19] Plutarch also reports that Caesar said nothing, pulling his toga over his head when he saw Brutus among the conspirators.[20] The version best known in the English-speaking world is the Latin phrase "Et tu, Brute?" ("You too, Brutus?");[21][22] this derives from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599), where it actually forms the first half of a macaronic line: "Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar." This has no basis in historical fact. Shakespeare was making use of a phrase already in common use at the time.[23] According to Plutarch, after the assassination, Brutus stepped forward as if to say something to his fellow senators not involved in the plot; they, however, fled the building.[24] Brutus and his companions then marched to the Capitol while crying out to their beloved city: "People of Rome, we are once again free!". They were met with silence, as the citizens of Rome had locked themselves inside their houses as soon as the rumour of what had taken place had begun to spread. According to Suetonius, all the conspirators made off, and he (Caesar) lay there lifeless for some time, and finally three common slaves put him on a litter and carried him home, with one arm hanging down.[25]

text: A wax statue of Caesar was erected in the Forum displaying the 23 stab wounds.[26] A crowd who had amassed there started a fire, which badly damaged neighboring buildings.[citation needed] In the ensuing years a series of civil wars resulted with the end of the Republic and the rise of imperial Rome.

text: Portentous events[edit]

text: Virgil wrote in the Georgics that several unusual events took place following Caesar's assassination.[27]

text: Who dare say the Sun is false? He and no other warns us when dark uprising threaten, when treachery and hidden wars are gathering strength. He and no other was moved to pity Rome on the day that Caesar died, when he veiled his radiance in gloom and darkness, and a godless age feared everlasting night. Yet in this hour Earth also and the plains of Ocean, ill-boding dogs and birds that spell mischief, sent signs which heralded disaster. How oft before our eyes did Etna deluge the fields of the Cyclopes with a torrent from her burst furnaces, hurling thereon balls of fire and molten rocks. Germany heard the noise of battle sweep across the sky and, even without precedent, the Alps rocked with earthquakes. A voice boomed through the silent groves for all to hear, a deafening voice, and phantoms of unearthly pallor were seen in the falling darkness. Horror beyond words, beasts uttered human speech; rivers stood still, the earth gaped upon; in the temples ivory images wept for grief, and beads of sweat covered bronze statues. King of waterways, the Po swept forests along in the swirl of his frenzied current, carrying with him over the plain cattle and stalls alike. Nor in that same hour did sinister filaments cease to appear in ominous entrails or blood to flow from wells or our hillside towns to echo all night with the howl of wolves. Never fell more lightning from a cloudless sky; never was comet's alarming glare so often seen.

text: Aftermath of the assassination[edit]

text: Two days after the assassination, Mark Antony summoned the senate and managed to work out a compromise in which the assassins would not be punished for their acts, but all of Caesar's appointments would remain valid. By doing this, Antony most likely hoped to avoid large cracks in government forming as a result of Caesar's death. Simultaneously, Antony diminished the goals of the conspirators.[28] The result unforeseen by the assassins was that Caesar's death precipitated the end of the Roman Republic.[29] The Roman lower classes, with whom Caesar was popular, became enraged that a small group of aristocrats had sacrificed Caesar. Antony, who had been drifting apart from Caesar, capitalised on the grief of the Roman mob and threatened to unleash them on the Optimates, perhaps with the intent of taking control of Rome himself. But, to his surprise and chagrin, Caesar had named his grandnephew Gaius Octavius his sole heir, bequeathing him the immensely potent Caesar name as well as making him one of the wealthiest citizens in the Republic.[30] Upon hearing of his adopted father's death, Octavius abandoned his studies in Apollonia and sailed across the Adriatic Sea to Brundisium.[28] Octavius became Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus or Octavian, the son of the great Caesar, and consequently also inherited the loyalty of much of the Roman populace. Octavian, aged only 18 at the time of Caesar's death, proved to have considerable political skills, and while Antony dealt with Decimus Brutus in the first round of the new civil wars, Octavian consolidated his tenuous position. Antony did not initially consider Octavius a true political threat due to his young age and inexperience, but Octavius quickly gained the support and admiration of Caesar's friends and supporters.[28]

text: To combat Brutus and Cassius, who were massing an enormous army in Greece, Antony needed soldiers, the cash from Caesar's war chests, and the legitimacy that Caesar's name would provide for any action he took against them. With passage of the Lex Titia on November 27, 43 BC,[31] the Second Triumvirate was officially formed, composed of Antony, Octavian, and Caesar's Master of the Horse Lepidus.[32] It formally deified Caesar as Divus Iulius in 42 BC, and Caesar Octavian henceforth became Divi filius ("Son of the Divine").[33] Seeing that Caesar's clemency had resulted in his murder, the Second Triumvirate brought back proscription, abandoned since Sulla.[34] It engaged in the legally sanctioned murder of a large number of its opponents in order to fund its forty-five legions in the second civil war against Brutus and Cassius.[35] Antony and Octavian defeated them at Philippi.[36]

text: Afterward, Mark Antony married Caesar's lover, Cleopatra, intending to use the fabulously wealthy Egypt as a base to dominate Rome. A third civil war broke out between Octavian on one hand and Antony and Cleopatra on the other. This final civil war, culminating in the latter's defeat at Actium, resulted in the final ascendancy of Octavian, who became the first Roman emperor, under the name Caesar Augustus, a name that raised him to the status of a deity.[37]

text: List of conspirators[edit]

text: Some forty people joined in the plot, but about half of their names are lost to history and almost nothing is known about some of those whose names have survived.[38] The known members are:

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Gaius Cassius Longinus
Marcus Junius Brutus
Servius Sulpicius Galba[39]
Quintus Ligarius[39]
Lucius Minucius Basilus
Gaius Servilius Casca (brother of Publius Servilius Casca Longus)
Publius Servilius Casca Longus (brother of Gaius Servilius Casca and the one responsible for the first stab)
Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus
Lucius Tillius Cimber
Gaius Trebonius[40]
Lucius Cassius Longinus (brother of Gaius Cassius Longinus)[41]
Gaius Cassius Parmensis[42]
Caecilius (brother of Bucolianus)[39]
Bucolianus (brother of Caecilius)[43]
Rubrius Ruga[39]
Marcus Spurius[39]
Publius Sextius Naso[39]
Lucius Pontius Aquila[39]
Petronius[39]
Decimus Turullius[44]
Pacuvius Antistius Labeo

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text: Marcus Tullius Cicero was not a member of the conspiracy and was surprised by it, but later wrote to the conspirator Trebonius that he wished he had been "...invited to that superb banquet." He believed that the Liberatores should also have killed Mark Antony.[45] The conspirators had decided, however, that the death of a single tyrant would be more symbolically effective, claiming that the intent was not a coup d'état, but tyrannicide.


document_title: Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

question_text: who won the 2018 pikes peak hill climb

question_tokens: who won the 2018 pikes peak hill climb

text: Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

text: History[edit]

text: Early history[edit]

text: The first Pikes Peak Hill Climb was promoted by Spencer Penrose, who had converted the narrow carriage road into the much wider Pikes Peak Highway.[4]

text: The first Penrose Trophy was awarded in 1916 to Rea Lentz with a time of 20:55.60.[4][5][6] In the same year Floyd Clymer won the motorcycle class with a time of 21:58.41.[7] In 1924 the final Penrose Trophy was awarded to Otto Loesche in his Lexington Special.[8] In the years following, Glen Scultz and Louis Unser shared a rivalry and won the event 12 times between them.[5] In 1929 the popular stock car class was added to the event.[4][6]

text: Following world war two, Louis Unser returned to his winning ways at Pikes Peak, winning a further three more times between 1946 and 1970, these wins were tightly contended with rival Al Rogers.[4][5] During this time the event was part of the AAA and USAC IndyCar championship.[9] In 1953, the SCCA sponsors the event, bringing with it an influx of sports cars. In this period the course record was broken every year from 1953 until 1962, this is the largest string of record breaking runs in the event's history. The majority of these records were set by Bobby Unser, the younger brother of Louis.[5] In 1954 motorcycles return to the event, the first time since its inception 1916.[6] The motorcycle overall victory that year went to Bill Meier riding a Harley-Davidson.[7]

text: In 1971 the event was won by the first non-gasoline vehicle (propane), this was also the first overall victory from the stock car class (1970 Ford Mustang), the car was driven by the Danish-American Ak Miller.[6]

text: European involvement[edit]

text: In 1984 the first European racers took part in the PPIHC with Norwegian Rallycrosser Martin Schanche (Ford Escort Mk3 4x4) and French Rally driver Michèle Mouton (Audi Sport quattro), thereby starting a new era for European teams in the almost unknown American hillclimb.[10] While Schanche failed to set a new track record, due to a flat right front tire, Mouton (together with her World Rally Championship co-driver Fabrizia Pons from Italy) won the Open Rally category, but failed to win the event overall. Mouton achieved the overall victory and course record in the following year.[10][7]

text: In 1989, an award-winning short film about the 1988 event was released by French director Jean-Louis Mourey. The film, titled Climb Dance, captured the efforts of Finnish former World Rally Champion Ari Vatanen, as he won the event in a record-breaking time with his turbocharged Peugeot 405 Turbo-16.[5][7][11]

text: Paving of the highway[edit]

text: The City of Colorado Springs began to pave the highway in 2002 after losing a lawsuit against the Sierra Club, which sued on account of erosion damage to streams, reservoirs, vegetation and wetlands downstream from the 1.5 million tons of road gravel deposited over several decades.[12][13] The local authority paved approximately 10% of the route each year after the order. The 2011 event was the last race with dirt sections, comprising approximately 25% of the course.[3]

text: During this evolutionary period of the event, the Japanese driver Nobuhiro Tajima with Suzuki cars scored 6 overall victories (2006 - 2011) and two course records.[4][10] His 2011 record was the first to break the 10 minute barrier.[5]

text: Hill Climb champion Rod Millen warned at the time that paving the road would put an end to the race.[14] However, the 2012 race saw over 170 racer registrations by December 2011, compared with 46 at the same time the previous year.[15]

text: The 90th running of the event happened in 2012 and saw a larger field and a longer race day than ever before. This was the first time the race has been run on all asphalt leading to the breaking of several records, notably the overall record, which fell numerous times during the event finally falling to Rhys Millen the son of previous event winner Rod Millen, in the Time Attack Division. During the event Mike Ryan spun his big rig in a hairpin in a section called the "W"s, hitting the guard rail, he then managed to execute a three-point turn and continued on course, at which point he broke his old record by 5 seconds. This highlighted the change that a fully paved course made to the speed of the event.[16] The 2012 event also saw the first motorcycle to achieve a sub 10 minute time with Carlin Dunne in the 1205 Division riding a Ducati with a time of 9:52.819 which was only 1.5 seconds slower than the previous year's overall record.

text: 2013 saw the nine-minute barrier shattered by WRC legend Sébastien Loeb, with a time of 8:13.878, while Rhys Millen ended up second with 9:02.192, beating his own record by more than 44 seconds.[17] Jean-Philippe Dayrault finished third with a time of 9:42.740, and Paul Dallenbach fourth with a time of 9:46.001, making it four drivers to beat the overall record set only the previous year.

text: Emergence of electric vehicles[edit]

text: Electric cars have featured on and off in the PPIHC since the early 1980s. In 1981 Joe Ball took a Sears Electric Car to the top in 32:07:410, in 1994 Katy Endicott brought her Honda to the top in 15:44.710 and in 2013 Nobuhiro Tajima broke the 10 minute barrier with a time of 9:46.530 in his E-RUNNER Pikes Peak Special. In the following years electric entries would become more common, steadily breaking their powertrain records and eventually the overall record in 2018.[5][7][18]

text: For hill-climb events and this event in particular it is reasonable to suggest that a modern, well designed electric car will be at an advantage over internal combustion engined cars. The issue of limited range does not apply to short sprints and the twisty nature of the Pikes Peak course lends itself well to the almost instant torque delivery of electric motors. In addition to this, the lowering air density of high altitudes does not reduce the power available to the driver as it does with air breathing engines.[19][20]

text:
Although the 2014 event was won by a gasoline powered car; second (Greg Tracy), third (Hiroshi Masuoka) and fourth (Nobuhiro Tajima) places overall were taken by electric cars.[21]
In 2015, electric cars placed first (Rhys Millen) and second (Nobuhiro Tajima) overall.[22][23] In an interview with Rhys Millen, he said that he had lost power to the car's rear motor pack before the halfway point. Had this not happened he had expected his run to be 30 seconds faster.[24]
In 2016 gasoline again took top honours but electric completed the podium taking second (Rhys Millen) and third (Tetsuya Yamano) as well as fifth (Nobuhiro Tajima) places overall.[25]

text: At the 2018 event, an electric car set a new overall record for the first time in the event's history. Frenchman Romain Dumas completed the course in the all-electric Volkswagen I.D. R with a time of 7:57.148.[19][26]

text: Current racing divisions & classes[edit]

text:
The Pikes Peak International Hill climb consists of seven divisions incorporating twelve classes for both cars and motorcycles.
[27]
An additional four special record classes consisting of former classes are defined in the appendix.
[1]

text: Car divisions & classes[edit]

text: Unlimited Division

text: Anything goes in the Unlimited Division as long as it passes safety inspection and meets the PPIHC’s general rules. The Unlimited Division features the most exotic vehicles, most of them built specifically for this race. These race cars have the best chance of setting a new overall race record. In 2018, Romain Dumas set a new record of 7'57"148 in the all-electric Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak, beating Sébastien Loeb's previous record by over 15 seconds.[28]

text: Time Attack Division

text: A division for production based two and four wheel drive vehicles. Only closed cockpit four-wheeled vehicles are allowed to participate.

text: This class features highly modified and specialised production based race vehicles.

text: Making its debut on Pikes Peak this year is the first official one-make Porsche category, exclusive to the Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport in four variants: Clubsport, Clubsport Trophy Specification, Clubsport MR, and Clubsport 2017 IMSA GS.

text: Pikes Peak Challenge Car Division

text: Established in 2014, the Pikes Peak Challenge Division encompasses a wide variety of class options.

text: The traditional Pikes Peak single-seater race cars with designs ranging from Indy style sprinters to dune buggies. Open wheel cars have competed in every event since the inaugural race in 1916.

text: Production based vehicles unlimited permitted modifications.

text: In keeping with the mission statement of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, specifically to "demonstrate advancements in the practical application of motor sports technology", the race encourages competitors with vehicles that do not meet the technical specifications of PPIHC sanctioned divisions and classes to enter in the Exhibition Class. While there are no class records for this class because of its exhibition status, entries are eligible for recording an overall course record.

text: Motorcycle divisions & classes[edit]

text: Pikes Peak Heavyweight Division

text: This is the top motorcycle division offered at Pikes Peak. It was formerly known as the Pikes Peak Open Motorcycle class. Competitors are eligible to enter vehicles powered by two or four-stroke engines of no more than 4 cylinders which displace between 851 and 1305cc.

text: Pikes Peak Middleweight Division

text: Competitors are eligible to enter vehicles powered by two or four-stroke engines of no more than 4 cylinders which displace between 501 and 850cc.

text: Pikes Peak Lightweight Division

text: Competitors are eligible to enter vehicles powered by two or four-stroke engines of no more than 2 cylinders which displace no more than 500cc.

text: Established is 2014, the Pikes Peak Challenge Motorcycle Division encompasses a wide variety of class options.

text: Intended to allow manufacturers to exhibit and trial their electric bike technology.

text: Essentially four-wheeled motorcycles, these machines have very few limitations. Engines must be commercially available and either be a 450-750cc single cylinder 4-stroke or a 250-550cc 1 or 2 cylinder 2-stroke.

text: This division includes Utility Terrain Vehicles and other vehicles that don’t fit in other Pikes Peak Divisions. While there are no records for this class because of its exhibition status entries are eligible for recording an overall course or 2-wheeled record.

text: Records from the Appendix of the Regulations[edit]

text: Time Attack 2 Production Record

text: This class features production based two- or four-wheeled vehicles with minimal modification allowed. All cars entered must have a valid manufacturer issued VIN and a minimum production run of 500.

text: Vintage Car Record

text: A class open to cars manufactured in 1995 or earlier, eligible vehicles must have competed in a past event.

text: Sidecar Record

text: Motorcycle and sidecar, consisting of three wheels. The vehicle is quite unrestricted however forced induction is not permitted and the vehicle must be able to safely and comfortably carry a passenger. If a sidecar entry is also entered in the Exhibition Powersport class then a passenger is only permitted to ride during official practise sessions.

text: Vintage Motorcycle Record

text: A class open to vintage motorcycles.

text: Race Records[edit]

text: Below follows all currently recognised records. Records set during the most recent running of the event are in bold type.

text: Division & Class Records[edit]

text:
Current 4-Wheel Records[29]

Division

Class

Year

Name

Vehicle

Time

Unlimited
2018
Romain Dumas
Volkswagen I.D. R[note 1]
7:57.148

Time Attack
Time Attack 1
2018
David Donohue
2017 Porsche GT3 R
9:37.152

Pikes Peak Challenge Car
Open Wheel
2017
Clint Vahsholtz
2013 Ford Open
9:35:747

Pikes Peak Open
2018
Peter Cunningham
2018 Acura TLX GT
9:27.352

Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport
2018
Travis Pastrana
2016 Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport
10:33.897

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text:
Current 2-Wheel Records[29]

Division

Class

Year

Name

Vehicle

Time

Pikes Peak Heavyweight
2017
Chris Fillmore [note 2]
2017 KTM Super Duke 1290 R
9:49:625

Pikes Peak Middleweight
2018
Chris Fillmore
2018 KTM 790 Duke
10:04:038

Pikes Peak Lightweight
2017
Davey Durelle
2009 Aprilia SXV450
10:35.354

Pikes Peak Challenge Motorcycle
Electric
2013
Carlin Dunne
2013 Lightning Electric Superbike
10:00.694

Quad
2016
Cyril Combes [note 2]
2011 Suzuki KTM JF Prototype
11:05.664

text: Non-Division & Class Records[edit]

text:
Records from the Appendix of the PPIHC Rule Book[1][29]

Type

Year

Name

Vehicle

Time

Time Attack 2 (Production)
2015
David Donner
2014 Porsche 911 Turbo S
10:26.896

Vintage Car
2017
Spencer Steele
1995 PVA 2
10:25.989

Sidecar
2016
John Wood &  Matthew Blank
1999 Shelbourne Superlite F2
11:26.644

Vintage Motorcycle
2012
Marc LaNoue
1969 Triumph Bonnie
12:39.782

text:
Alternative Fuel Records[29]

Fuel

Division/Class

Year

Name

Vehicle

Time

Electric
Modified
2018
Romain Dumas
Volkswagen I.D. R
7:57.148

Production
2016
Blake Fuller
2016 Tesla S P90D
11:48.264

Diesel
Exhibition
2015
Uwe Nittel
2016 Mercedes Benz C300 d 4 MATIC
11:37.149

Natural Gas
Open Wheel
1993
Johnnie Rogers
Wells-Coyote
11:50.090

Propane
Exhibition/PPO
2012
Randy Schranz
2012 Shelby Cobra
11:11.218

Turbine
Open Rally
1981
Steve Bolan
Bolan-Allison
15:27.180

Hybrid
Time Attack 1
2018
James Robinson
2017 Acura NSX
10:02.448

text:
Drivetrain Records[29]

Drivetrain

Division/Class

Year

Name

Vehicle

Time

Front-Wheel Drive
Pikes Peak Open
2018
Nick Robinson
2018 Acura TLX A-Spec
10:48.094

Rear-Wheel Drive
Unlimited
2018
Simone Faggioli[note 2]
2018 Norma M20 SF PKP
8:37.230

All-Wheel Drive
Unlimited
2018
Romain Dumas
Volkswagen I.D. R[note 1]
7:57.148

text: Winners[edit]

text: The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is an event run by both cars and motorcycles. The overall honours have always fallen to vehicles in car divisions, however motorcycles have their own divisions, records and winners. Cars have entered the event every year since its inception in 1916 (with the exception of years during the world wars) whereas motorcycles have only entered in a limited number of years.

text: Overall Winners[edit]

text: Overall winners can compete under any class of cars or motorcycles, although the majority come from the open wheel and more recently the unlimited classes. A time in italics indicates this was a previous course record, a time in bold indicates the current course record.

text:
Table of overall winners.[5]
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Year
Winner
Vehicle
Time
Notes

1916

 Rea Lentz

Romano Special

20:55.600

1917-1919

No competition due to World War 1

1920

 Otto Loesche

Lexington Special

22:25.400

1921

 King Rhiley

Hudson Special

19:16.200

1922

 Noel Bullock

Ford Special

19:50.900

1923

 Glen Shultz

Hudson Essex

18:47.000

1924

 Otto Loesche

Lexington Special

18:15.000

1925

 Charles H. Myers

Chandler Special

17:48.400

1926

 Glen Shultz

Stutz

18:19.400

1927

 Glen Shultz

Stutz

18:25.100

1928

 Glen Shultz

Stutz Special

17:41.600

1929

 Edward Phillips

Shultz Stutz 8

18:22.800

1930

 Glen Shultz

Stutz DV-32

18:08.700

1931

 Charles H. Myers

Hunt Special

17:10.300

1932

 Glen Shultz

Shultz/Stutz Special

16:47.200

1933

 Glen Shultz

Stutz DV-32

17:27.500

1934

 Louis Unser

Stutz Special

16:01.800

1935

 W.P. Bentrup

1935 Chevrolet 1 1/2-ton Truck

26:12.000

[note 3]

1936

 Louis Unser

Shultz Stutz

16:28.100

1937

 Louis Unser

Stutz DV-32

16:27.300

1938

 Louis Unser

Loop Cafe Special

15:49.900

1939

 Louis Unser

Snowberger Special

15:39.400

1940

 Al Rogers

Joe Coniff Special

15:59.900

1941

 Louis Unser

Burd Special

15:35.200

1942-1945

No competition due to World War 2

1946

 Louis Unser

Maserati

15:28.700

[note 4]

1947

 Louis Unser

Maserati

16:34.770

[note 5]

1948

 Al Rogers

Coniff Special Offenhauser

15:51.300

[note 5]

1949

 Al Rogers

Coniff Special

15:54.260

[note 5]

1950

 Al Rogers

Coniff Special

15:39.000

[note 5]

1951

 Al Rogers

Offenhauser

15:39.700

[note 5]

1952

 George Hammond

Kurtis Kraft Offenhauser Special

15:30.650

[note 5]

1953

 Louis Unser

Federal Engineering Special

15:15.400

[note 5]

1954

 Keith Andrews

Joe Hunt

14:39.700

[note 5]

1955

 Bob Finney

Dick Frenzel Special

14:27.200

[note 5]

1956

 Bobby Unser

Unser Special

14:27.000

[note 6]

1957

 Bob Finney

Dick Frenzel Special

14:11.700

[note 6]

1958

 Bobby Unser

Unser Special

13:47.900

[note 6]

1959

 Bobby Unser

Unser Special

13:36.500

[note 6]

1960

 Bobby Unser

Unser Special

13:28.500

[note 6]

1961

 Bobby Unser

Unser Special

12:56.700

[note 6]

1962

 Bobby Unser

Unser Special

12:05.800

[note 6]

1963

 Bobby Unser

Chevrolet 327

12:30.600

[note 6]

1964

 Al Unser

Offenhauser

12:24.500

[note 6]

1965

 Al Unser

Harrison Ford

12:54.300

[note 7]

1966

 Bobby Unser

Chevrolet

12:23.800

[note 7]

1967

 Wes Vandervoort

Chevrolet

12:46.300

[note 7]

1968

 Bobby Unser

Rislone Special

11:54.900

[note 7]

1969

 Mario Andretti

Chevrolet STP Special

12:44.070

[note 7]

1970

 Ted Foltz

Chevrolet 303

12:41.100

[note 6]

1971

 Ak Miller

1970 Mustang

14:18.600

1972

 Roger Mears

Volkswagen 2180

13:26.840

1973

 Roger Mears

Volkswagen 2180

12:54.790

1974

 Errol Kobilan

Sprint Chevrolet 302

12:54.770

1975

 Orville Nance

Chevrolet 327

12:36.650

1976

 Rick Mears

Porsche 2386

12:11.890

1977

 Bob Herring

Chevrolet 350

12:15.720

1978
 Errol Kobilan
Chevrolet
11:55.830

1979
 Dick Dodge Jr.
Hoffpauir Wells Coyote Chevrolet
11:54.180

1980
 Ted Foltz
1970 Chevrolet 350
12:15.810

1981
 Gary Lee Kanawyer
1976 N-D Porsche
12:03.960

1982
 Bill Brister
Woziwodzki Wells Coyote Chevrolet
11:44.820

1983
 Al Unser, Jr.
Woziwodzki Wells Coyote Chevy
11:38.300

1984
 Bill Brister
1981 Wells Coyote
11:44.490

1985
 Michèle Mouton
Audi Sport Quattro S1
11:25.390

1986
 Bobby Unser
Audi Sport Quattro SL
11:09.220

1987
 Walter Röhrl
Audi Sport Quattro E2 Pikes Peak
10:47.850

1988
 Ari Vatanen
Peugeot 405 Turbo 16
10:47.220

1989
 Robby Unser
Peugeot 405 Turbo 16
10:48.340

1990
 Robby Unser
Unser Chevrolet
11:32.860

1991
 David Donner
Donner-Dykstra Chevrolet
11:12.420

1992
 Robby Unser
Unser Chevrolet
10:53.870

1993
 Paul Dallenbach
Davis Chevrolet
10:43.630

1994
 Rod Millen
Toyota Celica AWD Turbo
10:04.060

1995
 Nobuhiro Tajima
Suzuki Grand Vitara
7:53.000
[note 8]

1996
 Rod Millen
Toyota Celica
10:13.640

1997
 Rod Millen
Toyota Celica
10:04.540

1998
 Rod Millen
Toyota Celica
10:07.700

1999
 Rod Millen
Toyota Celica
10:11.150

2000
 Larry Ragland
2000 GMC Envoy
11:17.660

2001
 Gary Lee Kanawyer
1981 Wells Coyote
10:39.760

2002
 David Donner
1997 Donner Dykstra
10:52.300
[note 9]

2003
 Paul Dallenbach
2000 PVA-01
11:34.700
[note 10]

2004
 Robby Unser
Subaru Impreza STIE
11:47.280
[note 11]

2005
 David Donner
Donner/Dykstra Special
11:15.680
[note 12]

2006
 Nobuhiro Tajima
Suzuki Sport
7:38.900
[note 8] [note 13]

2007
 Nobuhiro Tajima
Suzuki XL7
10:01.408
[note 14]

2008
 Nobuhiro Tajima
Suzuki XL7
10:18.250
[note 15]

2009
 Nobuhiro Tajima
Suzuki SX4
10:15.368
[note 16]

2010
 Nobuhiro Tajima
Suzuki SX4
10:11.490
[note 17]

2011
 Nobuhiro Tajima
Suzuki SX4
9:51.278
[note 18]

2012
 Rhys Millen
Hyundai Genesis Coupe
9:46.164
[note 19]

2013
 Sébastien Loeb
Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak
8:13.878

2014
 Romain Dumas
Norma M20 RD
9:05.801

2015
 Rhys Millen
eO PP03
9:07.222
[note 1]

2016
 Romain Dumas
Norma M20 RD
8:51.445

2017
 Romain Dumas
Norma M20 RD
9:05.672

2018
 Romain Dumas
Volkswagen I.D. R
7:57.148
[note 1]

text: Motorcycle Winners[edit]

text: Motorcycle winners can compete under any class, although the majority come from open or large displacement classes. A time in italics indicates this was a previous motorcycle record, a time in bold indicates the current motorcycle record.

text:
Table of motorcycle winners.[7]
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Year
Winner
Vehicle
Time
Notes

1916
 Floyd Clymer
Excelsior
21:58.410

1917-1953

No motorcycle competition records

1954
 Bill Meier
Harley-Davidson
15:34.100

1955
 Don Tindall
Harley-Davidson
16:08.600

1956-1970

No motorcycle competition records

1971
 Gary Myers
Husqvarna
15:11.960

1972
 Steve Scott
Bultaco
15:13.470

1973
 Rick Deane
Triumph[disambiguation needed] 750
13:56.030

1974
 Bob Conway
Yamaha 750
13:54.570

1975
 Rick Deane
Triumph 750
13:54.620

1976
 Rick Deane
Triumph 750
13:12.610

1977-1979

No motorcycle competition records

1980
 Lonnie Houtchens
Yamaha 750
13:44.730

1981
 Brian Anderson
Triumph 750
13:20.860

1982
 Arlo Englund
NA
13:19.280

1983-1990

No motorcycle competition records

1991
 Brian Anderson
Wood-Rotax 600
13:24.820

1992
 Brian Anderson
Wood-Rotax
12:54.000

1993
 Clint Vahsholtz
Wood-Rotax
12:29.380

1994
 Clint Vahsholtz
Wood-Rotax 600
12:21.130

1995
 Clint Vahsholtz
1992 Wood-Rotax
09:17.100
[note 8]

1996
 Davey Durelle
1988 Wood-Rotax
12:33.730

1997
 Davey Durelle
1988 Wood-Rotax
12:21.960

1998
 John Stallworth
1987 Yamaha Banshee 430
12:52.370

1999
 Lonnie Eubanks
Yamaha
12:42.190

2000
 Bobby Parr
LSR Lightweight
12:37.860

2001
 Bobby Parr
LSR
12:09.160

2002
 Bobby Parr
Lone Star
12:30.000
[note 9]

2003
 Bobby Parr
Lightweight
12:28.480
[note 10]

2004
 Davey Durelle
Honda CRF
12:27.810
[note 11]

2005
 Micky Dymond
KTM
12:12.614
[note 12]

2006
 Gary Trachy
Husqvarna SMR
11:46.841
[note 13]

2007
 Davey Durelle
2005 Rotax
11:41.756
[note 14]

2008
 Davey Durelle
Aprilia SM 550
11:42.991
[note 15]

2009
 Davey Durelle
Aprilia SXV
11:48.649
[note 16]

2010
 Gary Trachy
TM 660
11:33.700
[note 17]

2011
 Carlin Dunne
Ducati Multistrada 1200
11:11.329
[note 18]

2012
 Carlin Dunne
Ducati Multistrada
9:52.819
[note 19]

2013
 Carlin Dunne
2013 Lightning Electric Superbike
10:00.694

2014
 Jeremy Toye
2013 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R
09:58.687

2015
 Jeffrey Tigert
2014 Honda CBR1000RR
10:02.735

2016
 Bruno Langlois
2015 Kawasaki Z1000
10:13.106

2017
 Chris Fillmore
2017 KTM Super Duke 1290 R
9:49:625

2018
 Carlin Dunne
2018 Ducati MTS-1260 Pikes Peak
9:59.102