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You are here: Home / South Africa / Mclean Tips Knox and Niyonshuti for joBerg2c

Mclean Tips Knox and Niyonshuti for joBerg2c

27 April 2011 By Alan

Last year’s champion Andrew Mclean tipped MTN-DoItNow’s Adrien Niyonshuti and Max Knox for overall honours in the 900-kilometre Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c that starts on Friday and ends nine days later.

He said the young Rwandan mountain biker was currently in winning form after securing the African jersey with Namibian team-mate Mannie Heymans at the recent Absa Cape Epic.

At the same time, Knox, who skipped the brutal eight-day event, would be fresher than most of their opposition, he said. “Max will also be an ideal mentor.”

Mclean added that, of the top teams, the duo was the only one that consisted of two “pure” mountain bikers.

“Their technical superiority could play a role as the race unfolds. Barring mechanicals, they may just be the team to beat.”

They will come up against FedGroup Berg and Bush’s unlikely combination of South African road champion Darren Lill and former national cross country titleholder Brandon Stewart.

Roadies Neil MacDonald and Waylon Woolcock, representing Malcolm Lange’s new Team RECM, are also expected to be in the mix.

Mclean said riders with a road background should be “absolutely fine” on the flat terrain of the opening two stages, but that they would battle when it came to the technical stretches in the area of the Sterkfontein Dam.

“Mountain bikers like Knox, Niyonshuti and Stewart will start to come to the fore on the single track later on.”

While Mclean and partner Shan Wilson will not be defending their title, last year’s runners-up, the Kenyan team of David Kinjah and Davidson Kamau (Safari Simbaz Fairbairn Capital), will be on the start line.

Mclean however expressed his doubts whether they would be able to go one better than last year given the standard of entries in 2011.

“With prize money of R300 000, the race is starting to attract the top pros. As nice as these guys are, at this level of competition they’re just not a threat.”

With regard to the women’s race, Mclean said his money was on former MTN Series champion Ischen Stopforth and her British team-mate Catherine Williamson (Team bizhub).

“If they’ve both rested well after the Epic, they will have the edge.”

Last year’s winner Yolandi du Toit and new partner Aurélie Halbwachs (Develop) would also be “right up there”, he added.

Mclean stressed the fact that it was a test of endurance and that the race would not be won on the first day. “Nine hundred kilometres is a long way and a lot can happen in nine days.”

He said riders would need to watch their nutrition, stay healthy and “hope for a bit of luck”.

Mclean, who is still recovering from an iron-deficiency related illness, said he would join the 220 two-man teams on stages six through eight as a guest.

The race leaves Heidelberg in the south of Johannesburg on April 29 and arrives on the beach at Scottburgh, KwaZulu-Natal, on May 7.

Visit www.joberg2c.co.za, follow joberg2c_journo on Twitter or join the official Facebook group.

MTN-DoItNow's Adrien Niyonshuti (Photo: craigdutton.com) and Max Knox (Photo: Jon Ivins) are being tipped for overall honours in the 900-kilometre Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c mountain bike race that starts on April 29.

Adrien Niyonshuti (left), who is set to become Rwanda's first Olympic mountain biker, will race the nine-day Fairbairn Capital/Old Mutual joBerg2c from April 29. Here he shows off the African jersey he won alongside Namibia's Mannie Heymans at the recent Absa Cape Epic. Photo: Karin Schermbrucker

 

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