{"id":20311,"date":"2013-06-10T21:56:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/wesemann-moves-into-third-in-korea\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T21:56:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:56:49","slug":"wesemann-moves-into-third-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wesemann-moves-into-third-in-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesemann moves into third in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=4731\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4731\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4731\" alt=\"Wesemann-01-560x275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/219ce_Wesemann-01-560x275.jpg\" width=\"392\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>After puncturing in the first 10km, South African Martin Wesemann put on a show of strength to fight his way back to third overall on the second day of the Tour of Korea on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>After helping his <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"MTN Qhubeka\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MTN_Qhubeka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">MTN-Qhubeka<\/a> team-mate Kristian Sbaragli to a win in the opening stage, it was now up to Wesemann to represent the team.<\/p>\n<p>He rode with colleague Bradley Potgieter in the day\u2019s 21-strong group to secure the African Professional Continental team\u2019s second success in the 1 077km 2.2 UCI-rated race.<\/p>\n<p>In a dramatic finale, the 29-year-old lost touch with the lead group at the 10km mark due to a puncture. But the experienced pro from Cape Town fought his way back into the race.<\/p>\n<p>With 28km to go, Korea\u2019s Yoonjong Seo (KSPO) attacked out of the group and quickly built up a gap. The local rider looked to be the sure winner, but the chasers, including Wesemann, reeled him in with 3km to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the move got away, the rest of the teams looked to us to control the race. But, with this only being the second stage, we know there\u2019s a lot of racing to come so we didn\u2019t try to close everything down\u201d, said an exhausted but happy Wesemann, who finished eighth on the day.<\/p>\n<p>The victory on the 142km stage between Muju and Gumi went to American Eric Young (Optum), ahead of Korean Jimin Jung (KSPO) and Australian Jason Kerby (Christina Watches).<\/p>\n<p>The new overall leader is Kinglok Cheung from Hong Kong, who rides in the colours of the China National Team.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/219ce_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After puncturing in the first 10km, South African Martin Wesemann put on a show of strength to fight his way back to third overall on the second day of the Tour of Korea on Monday. After helping his MTN-Qhubeka team-mate Kristian Sbaragli to a win in the opening stage, it was now up to Wesemann [&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-20311","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\/20311","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=20311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}