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Marathon World Champs incentives for SA riders

By Press Office · 41 comments

Cycling South Africa’s Mountain Bike Commission has offered a great incentive to all South African mountain bikers who are competing in the 2015 UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships in Selva Val Gardena in the Dolomites, Italy, on 27 June.

The Marathon discipline allows for riders who did not qualify through the selection process, to represent their nation by qualifying through the UCI Marathon World Series. Riders are required to compete in their Federation Kit.

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The incentive is applicable to all the South African men or women participants in the Elite race, and is as follows:

  • R15 000 for a top five result
  • R10 000 for sixth to 15th place result
  • R5 000 for 16th to 25th place result

Those riders who qualified through the UCI Marathon World Series that intend to participate in the Marathon World Champs are required to send their information to Dellah Paul dellah@cyclingsa.com so that the entry can be processed timeously.

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Comments

Jaco-fiets
Jaco-fiets

Jun 28, 2015, 4:42 PM

...and Max?

Gen
Gen

Jun 28, 2015, 5:01 PM

...and Max?

Don't think he even ended up going.

 

I think the only saffa that went is Matt Beers. But I my be wrong.

nathrix
nathrix

Jun 28, 2015, 5:15 PM

Why didn't CSA select Gawie and Nico?

Gen
Gen

Jun 28, 2015, 5:20 PM

Why didn't CSA select Gawie and Nico?

Ja.. no I have no clue.. they only selected Max and Robin to go.. and as I understand it, neither of them even went.. Matt Beers made his own way there... sigh.
Jaco-fiets
Jaco-fiets

Jun 28, 2015, 5:42 PM

What a ******* joke!

Will_Mtb
Will_Mtb

Jun 28, 2015, 7:19 PM

Well done to Matt Beers who actually went and finished - respect. I saw on the results he is only 21!! If that's the case there is a bright future for him. Agree that more guys should have been sent. Robin at least said that she was not 100% and wouldn't be able to give worlds a good go...Max well didn't know he didn't go/opted not to go. Must say was surprised by his selection, but that's my opinion. Perhaps there should be local races that replicate the next world distance and accent to get CSA to select the best suitable candidates to send. Anybody know of a local race that was equivalent to the world's distance and accent?

Jaco-fiets
Jaco-fiets

Jun 28, 2015, 9:20 PM

If you have to be honest we don't really have woman that can compete on a world level in the woman XCO or marathon. Maybe Robyn in marathon but not really.

 

With regards to that male contenders not that much happening on the marathon but we have a few strong younger guys coming through on XCO side that we probably should invest in

Shebeen
Shebeen

Jun 29, 2015, 5:27 AM

Belgium always perform at cx worlds.why are we more like France at type de France when it comes to marathon mtb racing?

Squier
Squier

Jun 29, 2015, 6:56 AM

Well done to Matt Beers who actually went and finished - respect. I saw on the results he is only 21!! If that's the case there is a bright future for him. Agree that more guys should have been sent. Robin at least said that she was not 100% and wouldn't be able to give worlds a good go...Max well didn't know he didn't go/opted not to go. Must say was surprised by his selection, but that's my opinion. Perhaps there should be local races that replicate the next world distance and accent to get CSA to select the best suitable candidates to send. Anybody know of a local race that was equivalent to the world's distance and accent?

 

At 87km with 4700m of climbing for the men (and 60km with 3400m ascent for the women) they are by no means dime a dozen. The biggest days in the Epic don't even get close to that.

nathrix
nathrix

Jun 29, 2015, 7:55 AM

At 87km with 4700m of climbing for the men (and 60km with 3400m ascent for the women) they are by no means dime a dozen. The biggest days in the Epic don't even get close to that.

 

The Attakwas does not even get close to the ladies race, not even mentioning the mens race and atta is double the distance of the ladies race!

nathrix
nathrix

Jun 29, 2015, 4:47 PM

Shebeen
Shebeen

Jun 29, 2015, 6:17 PM

At 87km with 4700m of climbing for the men (and 60km with 3400m ascent for the women) they are by no means dime a dozen. The biggest days in the Epic don't even get close to that.

is that a normal course? That's over 5% gradient if it was just an uphill, so average of the climbing is probably double that. Might as well call it world uphill champs
Jaco-fiets
Jaco-fiets

Jun 30, 2015, 2:19 PM

My colleague in Italy did the race. Few thousand entries. He is not that bad a cyclist and the course took him almost 9hrs

nathrix
nathrix

Jul 2, 2015, 7:13 AM

My colleague in Italy did the race. Few thousand entries. He is not that bad a cyclist and the course took him almost 9hrs

 

I see Lakata's winning time was 4h24!

Squier
Squier

Jul 2, 2015, 11:07 AM

My colleague in Italy did the race. Few thousand entries. He is not that bad a cyclist and the course took him almost 9hrs

 

For example; the average time on Day 2 of Sani is somewhere between 6 and 7 hours. That is only 1900m of climbing.

 

Sella Ronda is almost exactly two and a half times that.  I'd say 9 hours isn't bad at all on that course.

Rick Sanchez
Rick Sanchez

Jul 2, 2015, 12:36 PM

I find it surprising that Sauser beat Kulhavy, after obviously being the weaker partner in the Epic.

And I'm pretty sure Lakata also weighs around 75+kg

Jaco-fiets
Jaco-fiets

Jul 2, 2015, 1:42 PM

Was under the impression that the marathon worlds was not a focus of Kulhavy so he purely rode in support of Suazer

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