L.A. ‘stachethletes win big at national facial-hair competition

Several L.A.-area mustachioed men (and one with award-winning sideburns) won big at a national facial-hair face-off over the weekend, taking home seven medals -- five of them won by members of one club of beard and mustache enthusiasts.

According to the official results announced Sunday, local competitors taking home gold medals in their respective categories at the Oct. 25 event in Portland, Ore., included Dan Lawlor (in the Freestyle Moustache category), Roberto Campos (Imperial Moustache), Jeffrey Moustache (Musketeer), Nate Johnson (Sidburns) and Steve Scarpa (Fu Manchu).

Additionally, Matt Bilfield took home a silver (second place) medal in the Dali Moustache category and Al Underwood took home a bronze third-place medal in the Musketeer category.

All but Scarpa (who hails from Tehachapi) and Underwood (from Toluca Lake) are official members of a local group of facial-hair fanatics known as the Los Angeles Facial Hair Society (though Scarpa serves as a judge when the group holds its own local competitions).

The wins clearly help cement Los Angeles’ reputation as the launchpad for award-winning lip spinach. Less clear, though, is what exactly the event is. Officially dubbed the “Just for Men World Beard and Moustache Championships” (the beard dying product is a title sponsor) and legally trademarked in the U.S. by organizer Phil Olsen, the event is not affiliated with the biannual, long-running Euro-centric World Beard and Mustache Championships organized by the World Beard and Moustache Assn. -- which isn’t scheduled to take place until 2015 in Leogang, Austria.

According to organizers the roster of competitors included more than 300 men from 29 U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and nine foreign countries. The below results are listed in descending order from first- to third-place finisher.

Moustache Division

Natural Moustache

John Cordes

Devon Holcombe

Curtis Cole

English Moustache

Snidely Mansfield

Benjamin Taylor

Dali Moustache

Jeffrey Well

Matthew Bilfield

Ian Stetler

Imperial Moustache

Roberto Campos

Joshua Miller

Nicholas Davis

Hungarian Moustache

Gordie Blair

Joseph Jeszeck

Gabriel Fall

Freestyle Moustache

Daniel Lawlor

Brooke Mahnken

Greg Vaughan

Partial Beard Division

Goatee Natural

Jeffrey Carta

Monte Wiess

Nathan Sobel

Fu Manchu

Steve Scarpa

Josh Philippe

Imperial Partial Beard

MJ Johnson

Patrick Ryan

Derrick Strang

Musketeer

Jeffrey Moustache

Dennis Dickerson

Al Underwood

Sideburns

Nathan Johnson

Toot Joslin

Josh Jasmin

Amish Beard

Kevin Graybill

Josiah Farmer

Matt MacLean

Partial Beard Freestyle

Kevin Riordan

Steffen Rasile

John Barnes

Full Beard Division

Full Beard Natural (due to a scoreboard error, co-winners were recognized for second and third place in this category)

Andrew Shuler

Charles Hazleton and Justin Mulhollen

Jamison Chop and Jordan Dauby

Full Beard Styled Moustache

Travis McFarland

Burke T. Kenny

Nate Hardenbrook

Verdi

Nic Mahoskey

Jonathan Coates

Shannon Fallon

Garibaldi

Madison Rowley

Joel Andrus

Hurvey Haskins

Full Beard Freestyle

Jeffrey Jensen

Xtopher Grey

Greg Arens

Overall Winner

Madison Rowley

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