Ariane Lüthi partners with Canyon
Ariane Lüthi, the reigning Swiss Marathon Champion, will be partnering with Canyon for her 2020 racing season and beyond. The Stellenbosch based rider and five-time Absa Cape Epic winner is going to tackle this gruelling race in March for the tenth time, with a partner yet to be announced. Being an integral part of the […]
Epic Bike Check: Ariane Lüthi’s Kross Earth Team Edition
Ariane Lüthi joined Kross Racing Team earlier this year after the dissolution of the Team Spur team. Kross is a Polish bike company with their pro team racing on the Earth Team Edition frame. Lüthi is riding with teammate Maja Włoszczowska as Team KROSS-SPUR Racing in the 2019 Absa Cape Epic. Ariane Lüthi’s Kross Earth […]
Lüthi joins Kross to race alongside Włoszczowska in 2019 Cape Epic
The three-time UCI Women’s category and two-time Virgin Active Mixed category Absa Cape Epic winner, Ariane Lüthi has joined Kross Racing for the 2019 season. At the untamed African mountain bike race she will partner, two-time Olympic Silver Medallist, 2010 XCO and 2003 XCM World Champion, Maja Włoszczowska; as the pair go in search of […]
Ariane Luthi joins Kross Racing Team
The Swiss cyclist, bronze medallist at this year’s European championships in the MTB marathon, is joining the Polish team. In this manner the KROSS team has completed its list of new competitors. Ariane Luthi began her sporting adventure in triathlon, quickly becoming known to fans as a multi-talented competitor. However, it was always mountain biking […]
End of the road for Team Spur
As a successful season for Team Spur draws to a close, Team Spur’s director and owner of Podium Sports, Nic Lamond announces the end of the team and reflects on three years of passion and stoke. From Left to Right: Nic Lamond, Ariane Lüthi, Alan Hatherly, JP Jacobs, Sacha du Plessis (Group Marketing Executive, Spur […]
Ariane Lüthi claims third Swiss marathon championship title
On Sunday morning, 30 September, Team Spur’s Ariane Lüthi lined up in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, close to the southern shores of Lake Zurich for the start of the Swiss Marathon Championships. One hundred kilometers – and over 3,700m of climbing – later the Swiss powerhouse came home ahead of compatriot Esther Süss to reclaim her national […]
Ariane Lüthi hosts technical training ride for Anna Foundation ahead of UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
World-class mountain biker, Ariane Lüthi shared her experience with ten young mountain-bikers from the Anna Foundation at a technical training session prior to the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Stellenbosch yesterday. The Swiss superstar is a multiple winner of the most grueling mountain bike stage races in the world, including the ABSA Cape Epic, […]
Ariane Lüthi to race Absa Cape Epic with Belgian XCO Champ Githa Michiels
In a last-minute change forced by her previous partner’s falling ill, Team Spur’s Ariane Lüthi has teamed up with Belgian XCO Champion Githa Michiels for the 2018 Absa Cape Epic. Githa Michiels. © Peter Deconinck/Photopress.be Although Lüthi’s Cape Epic plans were dealt a blow by the sudden change in partner, the Swiss national believes Team […]
Ariane Lüthi pairs up with Christina Kollmann-Forstner
As the XXIII Winter Olympic Games kick off this week in PyeongChang, at least one athlete from snow-mad Austria packed her sports bags for South Africa, and not South Korea. Christina Kollmann-Forstner bucked the trend, arriving to a sweltering Cape Town on Monday, 5 February. The reason? She’s partnered up with another tough Alpine woman, […]
Ariane Lüthi to defend Fairtree Contour Stage Race title
Defending Fairtree Simonsberg Contour MTB Lady’s Champion, the Stellenbosch based Swiss superstar Ariane Lüthi will give it her all to retain her title when she takes to the track this weekend (3 to 4 February) with a strong field of 84 female riders. The Team Spur rider is revered among her rivals for her fierce […]
Beukes and Lüthi kick-off 2018 season with Attakwas victories
PYGA Euro Steel’s Matthys Beukes broke the South African drought while Ariane Lüthi added a historic sixth Momentum Health Attakwas Extreme, presented by Biogen, to her palmarès on a wet Saturday, the 20th of January 2018. The elite men’s podium was filled by Tim Bohme and Philip Buys, and Lüthi was joined on the women’s […]
Spur/Red-E and Spur/Valencia win the 2017 Cape Pioneer Trek
The Spur/Red-E and Spur/Valencia teams of Alan Hatherly, Matt Beers, Ariane Luthi and Amy-Beth McDougall secured the 2017 Momentum Health Cape Pioneer Trek, presented by Biogen, titles on Saturday the 21st of October in the Klein Karoo town of Oudtshoorn. Though both the men’s and women’s general classification champions were unable to win the final […]