Beers and Stenerhag battle muddy conditions to win Attakwas
NAD Pro MTB’s Matt Beers and Fairtree Capital’s Jennie Stenerhag started the 2020 mountain biking season in the best possible way on Saturday, 18 January. The pair overcame formidable elite, men’s and women’s, fields to win the Momentum Health Attakwas Extreme presented by Biogen. Depth of competition and the famously difficult course were made more […]
Fairtree announces sponsorship of Jennie Stenerhag
This week Fairtree announced their mountain bike sponsorship of current Swedish MTB marathon champion and 2017 Absa Cape Epic winner, Jennie Stenerhag. “Jennie is a wonderful ambassador for Fairtree. She has overcome tremendous challenges and her tenacity, commitment to excellence and achievement are qualities we embrace in our business,” said Herman Sandrock, head of Distribution. […]
Kruger, Stenerhag triumph at TrailSeeker Hemel & Aarde
HB Kruger and Jennie Stenerhag won the men and women’s marathon titles respectively when they triumphed over strong competition at the final round of the 2017 Nissan TrailSeeker Western Cape Series in the Hemel & Aarde Valley near Hermanus on Saturday. Riders storm through the breathtaking wine farms of the Hemel & Arrde Valley. Photo […]
Stenerhag, Woolcock take charge In Tulbagh
Waylon Woolcock and Jennie Stenerhag got their 2017 Nissan TrailSeeker Series, Western Cape off to the perfect start when they won the men and women’s marathon titles respectively at Round 1 at Tulbagh at the weekend. The elite men lined up at the start of the Nissan TrailSeeker Western Cape Series in Tulbugh on the […]
Woolcock and Kruger increase Winelands lead
Overnight leaders Waylon Woolcock and HB Kruger produced another controlled performance to create a telling gap after the second stage of the Liberty Winelands Encounter in the Boland today. HB Kruger (front) and Waylon Woolcock, of BCX, built an overall lead of just more than six minutes after winning the second stage in the three-day […]
How Stenerhag & Süss Raced to Absa Cape Epic Glory
In the lead up to and during the first few stages in the orange Hansgrohe Women’s category leaders’ jerseys, Jennie Stenerhag and Esther Süss were slightly overlooked by the media. The Meerendal CBC pairing were not underdogs by anyone’s reckoning, but they had quietly gone about their preparation, happily letting the Absa Cape Epic hype […]
Jennie Stenerhag and Esther Süss win 2017 Absa Cape Epic
A year after having heart surgery Jennie Stenerhag wept on Sunday as she and Esther Süss won the Absa Cape Epic Women’s category. Esther Suss & Jennie Stenerhag of Meerendal CBC celebrate winning the 2017 Absa Cape Epic. Photo by Greg Beadle/Cape Epic/SPORTZPICS “I can’t stop crying. I am so happy … it is just […]
Victory at last for Mariske and Annie on stage 6
After six days of intense battle at the Absa Cape Epic, the Hansgrohe Women’s race seems to have finally been settled, with experienced 40-somethings, Esther Süss and Jennie Stenerhag (Team Meerendal CBC) almost certain to take the 2017 title. Mariske Strauss and Annie Last of Team Hansgrohe Cadence OMX Pro win stage 6 of the […]
Suss survives to hang on to the lead on Stage 5
“I thought it was the end of our race,” said Absa Cape Epic Hansgrohe Women’s category leader Jennie Stenerhag when describing her partner Esther Suss’s crash near the finish. Sabine Spitz, Robyn de Groot, Esther Suss and Jennie Stenerhag during stage 5 of the 2017 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race held from Oak […]
Advantage Suss and Stenerhag on Stage 4
The pendulum in the Hansgrohe Women’s category at the Absa Cape Epic swung a little more toward a victory for Esther Suss and Jennie Stenerhag (Meerendal CBC) on Thursday with the duo adding another three minutes 40 seconds to their lead after the 112km Stage 4 from Greyton to Elgin. Esther Suss and Jennie Stenerhag […]
Blood, sweat and tears on a tough Stage 1
It was literally blood, sweat and tears in the battle for the Hansgrohe Women’s category at the Absa Cape Epic on Monday’s Stage 1. Jennie Stenerhag & Esther Suss of Meerendal CBC takes victory during stage 1 of the 2017 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race held from Hermanus High School in Hermanus, South […]
Howard Grotts and Jennie Stenerhag claim Cape Town Cycle Tour MTB Challenge titles
Howard Grotts (Specialized) outclassed Christoph Sauser (Specialized) and Matthys Beukes (PYGA / Euro Steel) to win the Cape Town Cycle Tour MTB Challenge at Le Bonheur Wine Estate in a time of 02:08:08. The 24-year-old from Colorado in the USA had arrived in South Africa less than three days before, but showed no ill effects […]