Christoph Sauser and Jaroslav Kulhavy of Burry Stander-Songo celebrate after winning stage four of the 2013 Absa Cape Epic mountain bike race from Tulbagh to Wellington, South Africa, on Thursday. Photo: Shaun Roy/Cape Epic/Sportzpics
A determined Christoph Sauser and Jaroslav Kulhavy of Burry Stander–Songo showed their class when they won stage four of the 2013 Absa Cape Epic over 120km between Tulbagh and Wellington in South Africa on Thursday.
Sauser’s 28th win in the event came in 4:32.49,3 for an overall time of 19:40.04.
They were followed by Marco Fontana and Manuel Fumic of Cannondale in 4:50.56 (overall 20:28.02).
In third for their first podium this year were South Africans Philip Buys and Matthys Beukes of Scott in 4:52.17 (20:36.23).
The Bulls pairing of Karl Platt and Urs Huber, as well as Thomas Dietsch and Tim Boehme of Bulls 2, finished seventh and eighth respectively after losing their way.
Sauser and Kulhavy now lead Platt and Huber by 13 minutes and 4 seconds. Dietsch and Boehme are third overall.
