{"id":86937,"date":"2015-03-23T17:56:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T16:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/?p=86937"},"modified":"2015-03-23T17:56:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T16:56:05","slug":"absa-final-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/en\/absa-final-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Absa Final Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Press Release]<\/p>\n<p>After <strong>eight days<\/strong> of thrilling racing, <strong>748km<\/strong> <strong>of distance<\/strong> and <strong>16.000m of altitude<\/strong>, <strong>Christoph Sauser<\/strong> (SUI) and <strong>Jaroslav Kulhavy<\/strong>(CZE) won the general classification (MEN) of this year\u2019s <strong>Cape Epic<\/strong> by 10 minutes and 41 seconds from Topeak Ergon\u2019s <strong>Alban Lakata <\/strong>of Austria and <strong>Kristian Hynek <\/strong>of the Czech Republic. After a tough week in beautiful South Africa with many mechanical problems the German\/Swiss duo Karl Platt and Urs Huber from team BULLS ended up third at the <strong>world\u2019s toughest mountain biking stage race<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>[ad3]<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious Grand Finale stage was won by Meerendal Centurion Vaude\u2019s <strong>German\/Swiss combination<\/strong> of <strong>Jochen Kaess<\/strong> and<strong>Daniel Geismayr<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>women\u2019s category<\/strong> <strong>Ariane Kleinhans (SUI)<\/strong> and <strong>Annika Langvad (DEN)<\/strong> dominated the 2015 Absa Cape Epic from the Prologue to Stage 7 with their intensity and world class mountain biking ability. So today they took the overall victory very well deservedly at Meerendal Wine Estate, Durbanville.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/video-absa-cape-epic-risultati-stage-7\/absa-cape-epic-2015-stage-7-wellington-to-durbanville-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-86924\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86924\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CE15_Stage7_1.jpg\" alt=\"Absa Cape Epic 2015 Stage 7 Wellington to Durbanville\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/video-absa-cape-epic-risultati-stage-7\/absa-cape-epic-2015-stage-7-wellington-to-durbanville\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-86923\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86923\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CE15_Stage7_4.jpg\" alt=\"Absa Cape Epic 2015 Stage 7 Wellington to Durbanville\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall\u00a0Results &#8211; MEN:<\/p>\n<p>1<sup>st<\/sup> place: Team Investec-Songo-Specialized \u2013 <strong>Christoph Sauser<\/strong> (SUI) and <strong>Jaroslav Kulhavy<\/strong> (CZE)<\/p>\n<p>2<sup>nd<\/sup> place: Team Topeak Ergon \u2013 <strong>Kristian Hynek<\/strong> (CZE) and<strong> Alban Lakata<\/strong> (AUT)<\/p>\n<p>3<sup>rd<\/sup> place: Team BULLS \u2013 <strong>Karl Platt<\/strong> (GER) and <strong>Urs Huber<\/strong> (SUI)<\/p>\n<p>Overall\u00a0Results &#8211;\u00a0 WOMEN:<br \/>\n1<sup>st<\/sup> place: Team RECM Specialized \u2013 <strong>Ariane Kleinhans<\/strong> (SUI) and <strong>Annika Langvad<\/strong> (DEN)<\/p>\n<p>2<sup>nd<\/sup> place: Team Ascendis Health \u2013 <strong>Jennie Stenerhag<\/strong> (SWE) and<strong> Robyn Lee de Groot <\/strong>(RSA)<\/p>\n<p>3<sup>rd<\/sup> place: Team Scott Factory Racing \u2013 <strong>Yolande de Villiers<\/strong> (RSA) and \u00a0<strong>Janka Keseg Stevkova<\/strong> (SVK)<\/p>\n<p>Overall\u00a0Results &#8211;\u00a0 MASTERS:<\/p>\n<p>1<sup>st<\/sup> place: Team BETCH.nl-Superior \u2013 <strong>Bart Brentjens<\/strong> (NED) and <strong>Abraao Azevedo<\/strong> (BRA)<\/p>\n<p>Overall\u00a0Results &#8211;\u00a0 GRAND MASTERS:<\/p>\n<p>1<sup>st<\/sup> place place: Team Meerendal BIXS KTM \u2013 <strong>Barti Bucher<\/strong> (SUI) and <strong>Heinz Zoerweg<\/strong> (AUT)<\/p>\n<p>Overall\u00a0Results &#8211;\u00a0 MIXED:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1<sup>st<\/sup> place place: Team ETIS \u2013 <strong>Peter Vesel<\/strong> (SLO) and<strong> Yvonne Kraft<\/strong> (GER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Press Release] After eight days of thrilling racing, 748km of distance and 16.000m of altitude, Christoph Sauser (SUI) and Jaroslav Kulhavy(CZE) won the general classification (MEN) of this year\u2019s Cape Epic by 10 minutes and 41 seconds from Topeak Ergon\u2019s Alban Lakata of Austria and Kristian Hynek of the Czech Republic. After a tough week in beautiful South Africa with many mechanical problems the German\/Swiss duo Karl Platt and Urs Huber from team BULLS ended up third at the world\u2019s toughest mountain biking stage race. [ad3] The prestigious Grand Finale stage was won by Meerendal Centurion Vaude\u2019s German\/Swiss combination of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172966,"featured_media":86925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3678],"tags":[5193],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.3 (Yoast SEO v19.7.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Absa Final Results | MTB-MAG.COM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/en\/absa-final-results\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Absa Final Results\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[Press Release] After eight days of thrilling racing, 748km of distance and 16.000m of altitude, Christoph Sauser (SUI) and Jaroslav Kulhavy(CZE) won the general classification (MEN) of this year\u2019s Cape Epic by 10 minutes and 41 seconds from Topeak Ergon\u2019s Alban Lakata of Austria and Kristian Hynek of the Czech Republic. 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