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Kristian Sbaragli digs deep to finish 5th for MTN-Qhubeka
Kristian Sbaragli showed his fighting spirit today at the Vuelta a Espana 8th stage by taking 5th place on an extremely tough stage. The victory went to Jasper Stuyven (Trek Factory Racing) with Pello Bilbao (Caja-Rural) 2nd and Kevin Reza (FDJ) 3rd. The stage saw 6 rider’s escape from the peloton early on but with […]
Louis Meintjes finishes in 9th place
The 7th stage of the Vuelta a Espana saw Louis Meintjes impress yet again as he climbed with all the favourites to eventually finish the stage in 9th place. The stage win went to the early breakaway rider, Bert-Jan Lindeman (Lotto-Jumbo). Today’s 191km stage saw the break get away in the very early kilometres of […]
Tour du Poitou Charentes #3: Farrar 2nd and Dougall impresses
The 3rd day of racing at the Tour du Poitou Charentes saw a road stage in the morning and an individual time trial in the afternoon. Marc Sarreau (FDJ) won the 98km road stage from our Tyler Farrar while Adriano Malori (Movistar) won the time trial. At just 98km in length the morning stage was […]
Steve Cummings just misses Vuelta stage win
Steve Cummings lit up the 6th stage of the Vuelta a Espana, attacking from the main break of the day only to be caught with 3km to go. Steve would win the most aggressive rider of the day prize. The stage win would go to the young Esteban Chaves (Orica-Greenedge) once again as he attacked […]
Tour du Poitou Charentes #1: Teklehaimanot jumps late to take 7th
In his first race back after the Tour de France, Daniel Teklehaimanot was again the protagonist as he put in a late attack at the opening Tour du Poitou Charentes stage which resulted in a 7th place finish. The stage may have been won by Arnaud Gerard (Bretagne-Seche) with Maxime Daniel (AG2R La Mondiale) 2nd […]
Good legs for Louis Meintjes once again
After another long hot day at the Vuelta a Espana, Alejandre Valverde (Movistar) won the 5th stage to Vejer de la Frontera. Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) was 2nd in the uphill sprint with Dani Moreno (Katusha) rounding out the podium. At 213km in length, stage 5 would be the 2nd longest stage of the race. It […]
MTN-Qhubeka Preview: Tour de Poitou Charantes
Team MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung will be at the start of the Tour de Poitou Charantes which gets underway from tomorrow. Tour de Poitou Charantes is a 4 day, 5 stage UCI 2.1 category race taking place in France. The race is one which suits a puncheur who has a good skill set against the clock […]
Kristian Sbaragli 6th in the sprint finish for MTN-Qhubeka
Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) won the first bunch sprint of this year’s La Vuelta a Espana coming home just ahead of Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis) and John Degenkolb (Giant-Alpecin) during today’s 3rd stage. It wasn’t your most simple of sprinters stages though as the 158km stage included just over 3000m of climbing. There was an early cat […]
Meintjes rides to 14th at La Vuelta 2nd stage
The 2nd stage of the La Vuelta a Espana saw Esteban Chaves (Orica-Greenedge) take the victory ahead of Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) and Nicolas Roche (Team Sky). Louis Meintjes was our highest placed rider in 14th place on the day. It was an interesting stage to Caminito Del Rey that saw the General Classification riders come […]
14th place for Africa’s team at La Vuelta start
The La Vuelta a Espana got underway with a 7.4km team time trial, BMC Racing would ride away with the stage win while MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung were just 30 seconds shy of the leading time, finishing 14th. While the course was spectator friendly, pretty much running along the boardwalk and beach side boulevard to Marbella, […]
MTN-Qhubeka Preview: Vattenfall Cyclassics
On Sunday the Vattenfall Cyclassics takes place in Hamburg, Germany, and Team MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung will be taking part in this single day World Tour event. The Vattenfall Cyclassics is Germany’s only World Tour event and our African team will be part of the line-up once again, this after competing in the 2013 edition. The […]
Arctic Heat to keep MTN-Qhubeka cool ahead of La Vuelta
La Vuelta is just a couple of days away. Given the predicted heat in Southern Spain the team is happy to be able to count on Arctic Heat Body Cooling Vests. The company is well known for its lightweight athletic body cooling vest. At La Vuelta Arctic Heat ice vests will pre-cool the riders in […]