{"id":18888,"date":"2013-03-25T03:43:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T01:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/epic-victory-for-sauser-and-kulhavy\/"},"modified":"2013-03-25T03:43:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T01:43:43","slug":"epic-victory-for-sauser-and-kulhavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/epic-victory-for-sauser-and-kulhavy\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic victory for Sauser and Kulhavy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Overall winners Jaroslav Kulhavy and Christoph Sauser of Burry Stander-Songo celebrate their victory in the 2013 Absa Cape Epic mountain bike race at Lourensford in Somerset West, South Africa, on Sunday. Photo: Karin Schermbrucker\/Cape Epic\/Sportzpics<\/p>\n

Christoph Sauser and Jaroslav Kulhavy sealed the overall win of the 2013 Absa Cape Epic after a short final stage from Stellenbosch to Lourensford in Somerset West on Sunday.<\/p>\n

It is Sauser\u2019s fourth title after also winning in 2006, 2011 and 2012. It was Kulhavy\u2019s first attempt at the event.<\/p>\n

With a six-minute, 21-second lead at the start of the final day, the Burry Stander-Songo duo could afford to take it easier and came home in fourth.<\/p>\n

Sauser and Kulhavy finished the eight-day race over 706km and 15 950m of climbing in an overall time of 29:40.44.<\/p>\n

Second in 29:47.55 were the German-Swiss duo of Karl Platt and Urs Huber of the Bulls.<\/p>\n

Third went to the Bulls 2 team of Thomas Dietsch and Tim Boehme in 30:07.35 with Multivan Merida\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Hermida and Rudi van Houts fourth in 30:19.55.<\/p>\n

Cannondale\u2019s Marco Fontana and Manuel Fumic placed fifth overall in 30:47.09.<\/p>\n

Hermida and Van Houts won the final stage in 2:22.20 in a sprint againt South Africans Philip Buys and Matthys Beukes of Scott.<\/p>\n

Nino Schurter and Florian Vogel of Scott-Swisspower placed third place in 2:26.03,6 with Sauser and Kulhavy home in 2:27.18.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a crash in the last 5km,\u201d said Kulhavy. \u201cI\u2019m very happy with our victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s perfect for us and Burry\u2019s family. I learnt a lot from Christoph \u2013 he is very experienced and this is his second home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an amazing week for me,\u201d said Sauser. \u201cThis year the competition was the toughest.<\/p>\n

The Absa African Leader jersey was won by Philip Buys and Matthys Beukes of Scott in 30:47.43,2.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very hard today and I rode beyond what I thought I was capable of,\u201d said Beukes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re delighted with our podium finish and very grateful. We did much better than we expected to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy legs were surprisingly good today,\u201d said Buys. \u201cI struggled at the start but soon got used to the pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yolande Speedy and Catherine Williamson (Energas) won the women\u2019s section in 38:58.51,9.<\/p>\n

Second were the Pragma Volcan Ladies Hanlie Booyens and Ischen Stopforth, who finished in 40:32.56, with C-Bear\u2019s Sara Mertens and Laura Turpijn in third in 41:11.13,5.<\/p>\n

C-bear won the final stage in 3:18.57.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was better than I thought and we played it safe knowing we had the lead,\u201d said Speedy. \u201cWe kept it steady on the climbs and I was very careful on the downhills.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very happy that we made it and we had amazing support. I couldn\u2019t have asked for a better partner.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to take away this win. It\u2019s such a prestigious event.\u201d<\/p>\n

The RE:CM team of Erik and Ariane Kleinhans won the mixed section in 34:59.54.<\/p>\n

Second were Australians Peta Mullens and Jarrod Moroni of Target TREK-Moronis Bikes in 37:18.49 with Exxaro Cycle Lab 1\u2032s Johan Labuschagne and Yoland\u00e9 de Villiers third in 37:27.29.<\/p>\n

The Kleinhans pair won the final stage in 2:54.44.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a fantastic experience and our biggest goal of the year,\u201d said Erik. \u201cWe\u2019re very glad to be here without any issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to keep it consistent and we had a safe race. We know how to win these races and were very prepared for this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overall winners Jaroslav Kulhavy and Christoph Sauser of Burry Stander-Songo celebrate their victory in the 2013 Absa Cape Epic mountain bike race at Lourensford in Somerset West, South Africa, on Sunday. Photo: Karin Schermbrucker\/Cape Epic\/Sportzpics Christoph Sauser and Jaroslav Kulhavy sealed the overall win of the 2013 Absa Cape Epic after a short final stage […]<\/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-18888","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\/18888","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=18888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}