May 2016: lining up with the men
The results list Megan Guarnier 14th in the men's P/1/2 race at the 2016 Berkeley Hills Road Race, entered for her professional team, Boels Dolmans. The race had a women's field by then; that year she raced the men's.
That's the whole of what the record holds: the field, the place and the team. We don't know how the race went for her, and we haven't found her racing here in other years.
How she got there
Guarnier grew up in Glens Falls, New York, and went to Middlebury College. She turned professional in 2010 with TIBCO–To The Top, raced for Rabobank–Liv in 2013 and joined Boels Dolmans in 2014.
By 2016 she had already won the U.S. road title twice (2012 and 2015), the 2015 Strade Bianche and the 2015 Ladies Tour of Norway, and taken bronze in the road race at the 2015 world championships.
Winning the Giro Rosa
Two months after Berkeley, Guarnier won the 2016 Giro Rosa, the women's Giro d'Italia and one of the biggest stage races in women's cycling, for Boels Dolmans.
The first Women's WorldTour champion
2016 was the first season of the UCI Women's WorldTour, the season-long series of the sport's biggest races, and Guarnier finished it first overall. That's a season ranking, not the one-day world championship road race, where her best was third, in 2015.
The same season she won the Tour of California, the Philadelphia Cycling Classic and her third U.S. road title, and she finished 11th in the road race at the Rio Olympics.
Part of Berkeley Hills history
Twenty years earlier, before the race had a women's field, Nicole Freedman won its top race. Guarnier's 14th in 2016 is another piece of the same history: women racing, and racing well, in the men's field on the Three Bears.
Women's racing here today
Today women race both days of the Berkeley Omnium, from Women's 4/Novice to Women's Pro/1/2/3, and in 2026 the Pro/1/2 cash purse was split 50/50 between the women's and men's races.