History For Beers and Nortje and Firsts for Lill and Keller
Matt Beers and Tristan Nortje became the first all-African team to win the Absa Cape Epic on Saturday after a drama-filled final stage. Trailing by 13 seconds behind overnight leaders Luca Braidot and Simone Avondetto, the South Africans finished third on the day behind stage winners Sam Gaze and Luca Schwarzbauer but, more importantly, finished […]
It’s Down to the Wire for GC Honours
South Africans Matt Beers and Tristan Nortje of Toyota Specialized Imbuko pulled back to within 13 seconds of the overall lead of the 2026 Absa Cape Epic after a sensational penultimate stage on Saturday. Finishing second behind stage winners Wout Alleman and Martin Stosek (Buff-BH), Beers and Nortje pulled back 1 minute 37 seconds on […]
GC Leaders Dominate Queen Stage in Tough Conditions
Both the overall leaders in the men’s and women’s elite categories showed why they are the strongest teams at the 2026 Absa Cape Epic during the Queen stage from Greyton to Stellenbosch on Friday. In the men’s race, Italians Luca Braidot and Simone Avondetto (Wilier-Vittoria) won their first stage of the week to extend their […]
Courtney and Seiwald finally get their win
American Kate Courtney and her Italian partner Greta Seiwald finally secured their first stage win at the 2026 Absa Cape Epic when they won Stage 4 in Greyton on Thursday. The She Sends Foundation duo outmanoeuvred overall leaders Candice Lill and Alessandra Keller to win the sprint to the line in a drama-filled stage that […]
The 2026 Absa Cape Epic Route Revealed
The 2026 Absa Cape Epic, pinnacle of the Epic Series, tears across 692 kilometres of raw South African wilderness, with 15 900 metres of climbing that will humble the unprepared and honour the relentless. From the dusty singletracks of Meerendal Wine Estate to the wild vastness of Montagu, through the rugged passes and trails of […]
The Elite Women To Watch At The 2025 Absa Cape Epic
An 18 team deep UCI Women’s field will take on the 2025 Absa Cape Epic route. Among those 36 women there are 8 mountain bike marathon national champions and 2 continental champions. There are also 3 past winners and the victors of European Epic Series race. Yet, all eyes are on the returning, undefeated, queen […]
The Elite Men To Watch At The 2025 Absa Cape Epic
The UCI Men’s field for the 2025 Absa Cape Epic features 8 National Champions and the European National Champion in the marathon discipline as well as 4 past winners, an Olympic Road Race Gold Medallist, and the greatest mountain biker of all time. The 21st edition of the Untamed African Mountain Bike Race is thus […]
Cape Epic: Toyota-Specialized-NinetyOne and GHOST Factory Racing claim overall victories
Simon Schneller and Urs Huber (BULLS Mavericks) won Stage 7 – the Grand Finale – of the Absa Cape Epic men’s race, but it was Matt Beers and Howard Grotts of Toyota-Specialized-NinetyOne who claimed the overall title at the 2024 event. In the Aramex Women’s Category, Anne Terpstra and Nicole Koller (GHOST Factory Racing) won […]
Cape Epic: Leaders extend advantage on Stage 6
It appears that only major disasters can prevent Toyota-Specialized-NinetyOne (Matt Beers and Howard Grotts) and GHOST Factory Racing (Anne Terpstra and Nicole Koller) from winning the Men’s and Aramex Women’s Category respectively at the 2024 Absa Cape Epic. On the 87km Stage 6 in Stellenbosch, the event’s penultimate day of racing, Toyota-Specialized-NinetyOne and GHOST Factory […]
Cape Epic: Beers and Grotts power to Stage 5 win; Terpstra and Koller unstoppable
Matt Beers and Howard Grotts (Toyota-Specialized-NinetyOne) romped to their first stage win of the 2024 Absa Cape Epic when they pulled away from Andreas Seewald and Marc Stutzmann (Canyon SIDI) in the closing kilometres of the 70km Stage 5 in Wellington. The Aramex Women’s Category was business as usual with Anne Terpstra and Nicole Koller […]
Cape Epic Stage 4: Sprint finish wins for World Bicycle Relief and GHOST Factory Racing
The top three teams in both the men’s and women’s races on Stage 4 of the Absa Cape Epic could only be separated in the final metres of the 73km race. Nino Schurter and Sebastian Fini (World Bicycle Relief) won the stage in the Men’s Category in a sprint finish, as did Anne Terpstra and […]
Cape Epic Stage 3: Canyon SIDI Storm to victory, GHOST Factory Racing make it four from four
Canyon SIDI’s Andreas Seewald and Marc Stutzmann rode hard and fast to claim Stage 3 of the 2024 Absa Cape Epic in a sweltering Wellington, while Anne Terpstra and Nicole Koller (GHOST Factory Racing) won their fourth stage in as many days to cement their place at the top of the Aramex Women’s Category general […]