Fluckiger, Suss on top at Ashburton Investments National MTB Series opener
Swiss stars, Mathias Fluckiger and Esther Suss confirmed their good early-season form when they won the men and women’s titles respectively at the opening round of the Ashburton Investments National MTB Series held at Meerendal, outside Cape Town, South Africa at the weekend. Fluckiger, who races for the Stockli team, was in no mood to […]
Former winners Süss and Williamson team up for Cape Epic
Switzerland’s Esther Süss has graced the top step of countless mountain bike podiums over the years, with two Absa Cape Epic wins being foremost among her successes. And Briton Catherine Williamson has similarly savoured victory in the Women’s category of the world’s premier mountain bike stage race. In 2016 they will be riding together in […]
Beukes, Heyns secure dominant Cape Pioneer Trek victory
The seventh edition of the Cape Pioneer Trek international mountain bike stage race ended on Saturday with South Africans Matthys Beukes and Gert Heyns of SCOTT Factory Racing LCB 1 claiming the overall victory. Switzerland’s Esther Suss and Great Britain’s Catherine Williamson of Sasol Racing claimed the women’s title. Matthys Beukes (left) and Gert Heyns […]
Resurgent Suss & Williamson reclaim Cape Pioneer Trek lead
Switzerland’s former marathon world champion, Esther Suss and her British teammate, Catherine Williamson, of Team Sasol Racing, used the final gruelling climb up the Swartberg Pass to reclaim the lead in the women’s race at the 2015 Cape Pioneer Trek international mountain bike stage race in South Africa on Thursday. Riders climb the magnficent Swartberg […]
The tough get going as going gets tough
Stage 4 of the 2015 Absa Cape Epic, a 111km loop of the Worcester countryside, finished much like the previous stage – with riders covered in sand, cursing the heat and rocky conditions of the route. And, of course, with Ariane Kleinhans and Annika Langvad of Team RECM Specialized crossing the line first, well ahead […]
RECM Specialized surge ahead
On a day when race conditions changed at the Absa Cape Epic – but the number one spot didn’t – it was business as usual for the dominant pair in the Sasol Women’s category. Team RECM’s Ariane Kleinhans and Annika Langvad survived a crash scare to charge home and into the orange leader’s jersey once […]
Strongest women’s field ever at 2015 Absa Cape Epic
Perhaps the most dramatic increase in quality across all the Absa Cape Epic categories this year has come in the women’s event. This year it will include the most decorated mountain biker on the planet, multiple world champion and Olympic gold medallist Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå of Norway. The decision to give women equal prize money […]
Lakata, Suss claim hard-fought Ashburton Investments series opener titles
Former world champions Alban Lakata of Austria and Esther Suss of Switzerland had to fight hard right up to the finish line to claim the men and women’s crowns respectively at the opening round of the Ashburton Investments National Mountain Bike Series at Meerendal Wines near Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday. Austria’s Alban Lakata […]
Esther Suss aims for the top at Epic
The formidable women’s field for the 2015 Absa Cape Epic includes several of the biggest names in mountain biking, and few have graced the sport quite like Esther Suss. The Swiss legend and former Marathon World Champion is 40 now but still at the top of her game. She has twice notched up wins at […]
Süss searching for 2010 Marathon Worlds repeat
It has been four years since Swiss marathon stalwart Esther Süss last tasted UCI MTB Marathon World Championships glory but the 40-year-old believes that 2014 could be the year she ends her victory drought as she returns to a familiar stomping ground at the Cascades MTB Park for the women’s 74km race on Sunday 29 […]
Hotly contested women’s category at this year’s Absa Cape Epic
Two teams – each with a Swiss connection – are emerging as the favourites for what promises to be a hotly-contested women’s category at the 2014 Absa Cape Epic. Image credit: Karin Schermbrucker/Cape Epic/ SPORTZPICS Will Swiss national but Stellenbosch resident Ariane Kleinhans or her countrywoman Esther Süss stand on top of the podium at […]
Absa Cape Epic welcomes previous winners Süss and Bigham
The Absa Cape Epic welcomes back two-times winners of the event Sally Bigham (35) of the United Kingdom and partner Esther Süss (39) of Switzerland. They will be riding as team Meerendal 3 and will take on the challenging 718km from 23 to 30 March later this month. Image credit: Nick Muzik/Cape Epic/SPORTZPICS The Women’s […]