{"id":235516,"date":"2022-08-29T15:07:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?p=120536"},"modified":"2022-08-29T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:07:01","slug":"gqeberha-mountain-bikers-triumph-at-tough-hayterdale-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gqeberha-mountain-bikers-triumph-at-tough-hayterdale-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Gqeberha mountain bikers triumph at tough Hayterdale Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1 \">\n<aside id=\"republication_tracker_tool-2\" class=\"republication_tracker_tool clearfix\">\n<h5 class=\"adtitle\">Republish for Free<\/h5>\n<div class=\"license\">\n<p><button name=\"Republish This Story\" id=\"cc-btn\" class=\"republication-tracker-tool-button\">Republish This Story<\/button><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"license\" rel=\"noreferrer license noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gqeberha-mountain-bikers-triumph-at-tough-hayterdale-classic.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gqeberha-mountain-bikers-triumph-at-tough-hayterdale-classic.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"message\">\n<p>Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<figure id=\"attachment_120537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120537\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?attachment_id=120537\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"wp-image-120537 size-thumbnail lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gqeberha-mountain-bikers-triumph-at-tough-hayterdale-classic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-120537 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gqeberha-mountain-bikers-triumph-at-tough-hayterdale-classic.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eventual winner Marco Joubert (Imbuko-typeDev-Giant) piles on the pressure in the 40km feature event at the BDO Hayterdale Classic MTB Race on Sunday. Photo: Richard Pearce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gqeberha\u2019s Marco Joubert stamped his authority on the BDO Hayterdale Classic MTB Race early on to lay the foundation for a comfortable victory in the 40km feature event, which took place at Hayterdale Trails just outside Addo today.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old professional romped home in 1:35:53 on an unforgiving course, followed by Sydney Strydom (1:40:31) and Adrian Oosthuizen (1:43:02).<\/p>\n<p>Joubert put his stamp on the race on Zuurberg Pass, which starts directly after the neutral zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pretty much did an interval session to see where my form was,\u201d said the Imbuko-typeDev-Giant star, who is one of the pre-race favourites for the upcoming Cape Pioneer Trek.<\/p>\n<p>Two kilometres into the winding ascent he found himself on his own and he simply kept going to extend his lead all the way to the finish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe win today has given me a real boost,\u201d he told the media afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>The route, which featured just short of 1 000m of elevation, took riders over similar terrain to that seen on the final day of the Great Zuurberg Trek and Joubert was suitably impressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides the trails, the infrastructure has developed so much over the years that it is the perfect place to spend a weekend. It\u2019s great riding and the off-the-bike hospitality is brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joubert also rode to victory in this year\u2019s Herald Cycle Tour Extreme MTB Race in the same area before finishing the Cape Epic as the first South African and eighth overall alongside Pieter du Toit, who will again partner him next week.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s race, Nicola Freitas (2:03:29) from Gqeberha faced a much stiffer challenge before eventually going clear of Juanita Mackenzie (2nd) and Anriette Schoeman (3rd) on a chilly morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not as strong as them on the climbs,\u201d said the 28-year-old Action Cycles rider, who returned to this discipline of the sport following several years of triathlon racing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith that start up the pass I knew it would be tough and my objective was to keep them in sight and not to let the elastic snap before the top. I was able to do that and was probably about 30 seconds behind them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taking advantage of her technical skills, she set off in pursuit of the leaders as soon as the race hit the singletrack sections.<\/p>\n<p>Freitas eventually hit the front after 9km and from there it became a matter of \u201cworking hard all the way\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy to overtake on the narrow trail, but I managed to pass them and knew I would have to continue focusing on the descents to build my lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried to keep it smooth and not take too many risks. The winding singletrack meant you could never really get away completely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was quite a long, steady climb near the finish and I knew they were coming for me, so I just had to keep pushing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She did enough to finish a comfortable three-and-a-half minutes ahead of Mackenzie and admitted that she was \u201cstoked\u201d with the result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a real boost for my confidence, especially ahead of the Cape Pioneer Trek, which I will be riding with Juanita [Mackenzie].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Results<\/p>\n<p>40km MTB<\/p>\n<p>Men<\/p>\n<p>1. Marco Joubert 1:35: 53<br \/>2. Sydney Strydom 1:40:31<br \/>3. Adrian Oosthuizen 1:43:02<\/p>\n<p>Women<\/p>\n<p>1. Nicola Freitas 2:03:29<br \/>2. Juanita Mackenzie 2:07:04<br \/>3. Anriette Schoeman 2:11:30<\/p>\n<p>40km e-bike<\/p>\n<p>Men<\/p>\n<p>1. Justin Seale 1:33:36<br \/>2. Matthew Preston 1:37:59<br \/>3. Charlie Jackson 1:41:42<\/p>\n<p>Women<\/p>\n<p>1. Phillipa Seale 1:48:14<br \/>2. Vanessa du Plessis 3:51:13<\/p>\n<p>25km<\/p>\n<p>Men<\/p>\n<p>1. Craig Townsend 1:11:48<br \/>2. Daniel Cornick 1:16:22<br \/>3. Dewald Beneder 1:17:22<\/p>\n<p>Women<\/p>\n<p>1. Kyra Boonzaier 1:18:05<br \/>2. Jorja Boonzaier 1:19:54<br \/>3. Candy Boonzaier 1:19:55<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mypr.co.za\/contact\/featured\/\">CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"post-views-icon dashicons dashicons-chart-bar\"><\/span> <span class=\"post-views-label\">Press Release Views since 1 July 2022:<\/span> <span class=\"post-views-count\">85<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-pagination pagination\">Pages: <span class=\"post-page-numbers current\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>1<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/gqeberha-mountain-bikers-triumph-at-tough-hayterdale-classic\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>2<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\">Source: MyPR.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republish for Free Republish This Story Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Eventual winner Marco Joubert (Imbuko-typeDev-Giant) piles on the pressure in the 40km feature event at the BDO Hayterdale Classic MTB Race on Sunday. Photo: Richard Pearce Gqeberha\u2019s Marco Joubert stamped his authority on the BDO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235517,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9021],"tags":[3257],"class_list":{"0":"post-235516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mypr","8":"tag-mypr","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/gqeberha-mountain-bikers-triumph-at-tough-hayterdale-classic.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235516","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=235516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}