{"id":654,"date":"2011-04-30T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T09:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/?p=654"},"modified":"2011-04-30T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T09:43:22","slug":"low-profile-for-joberg2c-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/low-profile-for-joberg2c-favourites\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Profile for joBerg2C Favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top professionals played their cards close to their chests on the 115-kilometre opening stage of the nine-day Fairbairn Capital\/Old Mutual joBerg2c on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The relatively flat off-road trek between Heidelberg in Gauteng and Frankfort in the Free State is traditionally treated as \u201cneutral\u201d due to delays caused by the crossing of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Vaal River\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-29.0666666667,23.6333333333&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=-29.0666666667,23.6333333333%20%28Vaal%20River%29&amp;t=h\">Vaal River<\/a> aboard Chinese dragon boats.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Toyota Supercycling\u2019s Yannick Lincoln and Kallen Williams were the first team home in 4:55:23.<\/p>\n<p>They were followed by Fedgroup Berg and Bush\u2019s former national cross country titleholder Brandon Stewart and current road champ Darren Lill in 5:03:36.<\/p>\n<p>The duo rolled in one second ahead of Team RECM\u2019s Neil MacDonald and Waylon Woolcock.<\/p>\n<p>Blend Properties\u2019 David Morison and Stuart Marais finished fifth in 5:03:45, with team MTN-DoItNow\u2019s Max Knox and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Adrien Niyonshuti\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adrien_Niyonshuti\">Adrien Niyonshuti<\/a> \u2013 the pre-race favourites \u2013 taking sixth in 5:04:26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can definitely lose the race on day one but you can\u2019t win it,\u201d said Knox, who is eyeing the technical stages later in the 900km event to show his true form.<\/p>\n<p>Team bizhub\u2019s Ischen Stopforth and British team-mate Catherine Williamson put themselves in pole position in the women\u2019s race when they finished among the leading group of riders.<\/p>\n<p>Second were Team Develop\u2019s Yolandi du Toit and Mauritian partner Aur\u00e9lie Halbwachs, with Ballie and Daughter\u2019s Anita and Robyn Curton third.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to pace yourself on a stage like today,\u201d said Stopforth. The former MTN Series champion said their objective was to save their energy for the more taxing stages next week.<\/p>\n<p>Visit www.joberg2c.co.za, follow joberg2c_journo on Twitter or join the official Facebook group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See joBerg2C photos below:<\/strong><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/mclean-tips-knox-and-niyonshuti-for-joberg2c\/\">Mclean Tips Knox and Niyonshuti for joBerg2c<\/a> (myza.co.za)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=32d346c4-aae7-45ec-b3ab-d58cf191654f\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top professionals played their cards close to their chests on the 115-kilometre opening stage of the nine-day Fairbairn Capital\/Old Mutual joBerg2c on Friday. The relatively flat off-road trek between Heidelberg in Gauteng and Frankfort in the Free State is traditionally treated as \u201cneutral\u201d due to delays caused by the crossing of the Vaal River [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[300,8277,326],"class_list":{"0":"post-654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-adrien-niyonshuti","8":"tag-joberg2c","9":"tag-max-knox","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\/654","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=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}