{"id":18859,"date":"2013-03-22T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T13:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sauser-kulhavy-make-quick-work-of-short-epic-stage\/"},"modified":"2013-03-22T15:32:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T13:32:33","slug":"sauser-kulhavy-make-quick-work-of-short-epic-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sauser-kulhavy-make-quick-work-of-short-epic-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauser, Kulhavy make quick work of short Epic stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christoph Sauser and Joroslav Kulhavy of Burry Stander-Songo celebrate after winning stage five of the 2013 Absa Cape Epic in Wellington, South Africa, on Friday. Photo: Shaun Roy\/Cape Epic\/Sportzpics<\/p>\n

Overall leaders Christoph Sauser and Jaroslav Kulhavy won the 75km fifth stage of the 2013 Absa Cape Epic from Wellington to Wellington in South Africa on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Burry Stander\u2013Songo duo clocked 3:03.04 for their third stage win and Sauser\u2019s 29th overall.<\/p>\n

They were followed by Nino Schurter and Florian Vogel of Scott-Swisspower in 3:05.19, who visit the podium for the first time this year.<\/p>\n

Bulls Karl Platt and Urs Huber were third in 3:05.35, Cannondale\u2019s Marco Fontana and Manuel Fumic fourth in 3:09.10 and Multivan Merida\u2019s Jose Hermida and Rudi van Houts fifth in 3:10.07.<\/p>\n

Sauser and Kulhavy\u2019s overall time of 22:43:09 puts them three minutes and 43 seconds in front of Platt and Huber (22:46.52) with the Bulls 2 team of Thomas Dietsch and Tim Boehme third (23:03.43).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my 29th stage win and I am thinking of making tomorrow my 30th, but finishing in overall first place at Lourensford is what is most important,\u201d said Sauser.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got up this morning and I\u2019m not feeling that fresh any longer,\u201d said Kulhavy. \u201cBut we went flat box right from the first kilometer even though we were tired from the previous days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yolande Speedy and Catherine Williamson (Energas) won their fourth consecutive stage in 4:06.55 (overall 28:57.02,1). They now lead this category by over two hours.<\/p>\n

Second on Friday were Sara Mertens and Laura Turpijn of C-Bear in 4:17.01,3 (overall 31:46.29,7).<\/p>\n

Hanlie Booyens and Ischen Stopforth of Pragma Volcan Ladies placed third in 4:29.25,8 (overall 31:00.03,7).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a lot of fun. It would\u2019ve been more fun if you had fresh legs, but there were so many steep climbs and my legs are shattered,\u201d said Williamson.<\/p>\n

Theresa Ralph and Damian Perrin of Biogen Britehouse won the stage in 3:44.34,6 (overall 29:34.22).<\/p>\n

They were followed by the RE:CM team of Erik and Ariane Kleinhans in 3:45.09,2 (overall 26:47.35). In third were Johan Labuschagne and Yoland\u00e9 de Villiers of Exxaro Cycle Lab 1 in 3:54.25 (overall 28:29.50).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was full gas the whole way and not one section that we relaxed,\u201d said Ralph. \u201cWe were always pushing the limit and encouraging each other.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christoph Sauser and Joroslav Kulhavy of Burry Stander-Songo celebrate after winning stage five of the 2013 Absa Cape Epic in Wellington, South Africa, on Friday. Photo: Shaun Roy\/Cape Epic\/Sportzpics Overall leaders Christoph Sauser and Jaroslav Kulhavy won the 75km fifth stage of the 2013 Absa Cape Epic from Wellington to Wellington in South Africa on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}