{"id":19347,"date":"2013-04-20T17:40:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T15:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/robert-the-hunted-at-mzansi-tour\/"},"modified":"2013-04-20T17:40:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T15:40:46","slug":"robert-the-hunted-at-mzansi-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/robert-the-hunted-at-mzansi-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert the hunted at Mzansi Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine\u2019s Mauro Richeze (Nippo-De Rosa) outsmarted South Africa\u2019s foremost sprinters to win the third stage of the UCI 2.2 Mzansi Tour.<\/p>\n<p>The day belonged to the international riders who made the most of the tricky technical final few hundred metres.<\/p>\n<p>Richeze\u2019s winning time for the stage from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Witbank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Witbank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Witbank<\/a> to Mamelodi (147km) was 3 hours 19 minutes and 51 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Lucas Liss (Rad-Net Rosa) finished second with SA\u2019s Nolan Hoffman (Tasol-GT) third.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine was relieved to have a stage victory under his belt. \u201cI owed it to my team to get a good result and today everything played out exactly as it should. I knew that I would be in with a chance to win the stage if there was a bunch sprint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman was content with his third place, but hoped for more. \u201cThe last few months my main focus was to be at my best for the World Track Championship, so my preparation for Mzansi Tour was far from satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was hoping, not expecting, to get at least one podium finish in the tour. It is certainly a good confidence booster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The main break of the day was launched by Nippo\u2019s Fukushima and then joined by three others, SA\u2019s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Neil Macdonald\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Macdonald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Neil MacDonald<\/a> (FedGroup-Itec), Portugal\u2019s Jose Goncalves (La Pomme Marseille) and Japan\u2019s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Shinichi Fukushima\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shinichi_Fukushima\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Shinichi Fukushima<\/a> (Nippo-De Rosa).<\/p>\n<p>Goncalves attacked just before Cullinan proving too strong for Fukushima which left him on his own over the last 25km.<\/p>\n<p>It took an organised effort from the chasing teams to catch the flying Goncalves. 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The day belonged to the international riders who made the most of the tricky technical final few hundred metres. Richeze\u2019s winning time for the stage from Witbank to Mamelodi (147km) was 3 hours 19 [&hellip;]<\/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-19347","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\/19347","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=19347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}