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<\/a>Czech and European marathon champion, Kristian Hynek (middle) won the 60km men’s race with Jeremiah Bishop (right) second and Alban Lakata (right) third.<\/span><\/p>\nErik Kleinhans, lead from the start and clinched the King of the Mountain title as the fastest man on the 2km time trial uphill section about 30km into the race. Unfortunately, a puncture caused him to lose a lot of time and hampered his chances of a podium win.<\/p>\n
Ariane Luthi took convincing line honours in the ladies race in a time of 2:34:14 and applauded race organisers for a more challenging single track route with great climbing sections.<\/p>\n Jennie Stenerhag who won the Queen of the Mountain title finished second in 2:39:22 with ABSA Cape Epic teammate Esther Suss in third.<\/p>\n The 40km men\u2019s race was won by Durbanville youngster, Juan Louw in 1:52:50 with Guy de Cafmeyer in 1:57:25 first veteran and second overall and Morne van Greunen third in 1:58:53. In the 40km ladies\u2019 race it was Nikki Biesheuvel first in 2:20:26 with Karla Fletcher second in 2:23:16 and Robyn Tully third.<\/p>\n According to Fairtree Capital, the company is proud to be associated with such a world class event that saw top class international riders bracing the podium today. The overall winners will be announced following tomorrow\u2019s second stage of the Fairtree Contour Simonsberg Stage Race.<\/p>\n For complete results visit www.trailtag.co.za<\/a> and find Sunday\u2019s race information on www.fairtreecontour.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Day 1 of the Fairtree Contour Simonsberg stage race MTB event made for some great single track riding with many short, sharp steep hill sections around Klapmutskop, while day 2 tomorrow (Sunday, 4 February) will take riders on the contours of the majestic Simonsberg Mountain. Former ABSA Cape Epic winner, Czech and European marathon champion, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[489,488,461],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-16201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-fairtree-contour","tag-fairtree-simonsberg-contour","tag-simonsberg-contour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16201"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=16201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Erik Kleinhans was crowned King of the Mountains.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Day 1 ladies winner Ariane Luthi<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Jennie Stenerhag and Esther Suss.<\/span><\/p>\n