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<\/a><\/p>\nA bunch of riders were together until the first waterpoint, but then the firm favourite Erik Kleinhans of Team Topeak-Ergon left the others in his dust for the rest of the route. Kleinhans finished in a record time of 5 hours 33 minutes 16 second. Richard Simpson took second place with Rikus Visser following in third.<\/p>\n
In the ladies, it was Marleen Lourens, Simone van Aardt, and Elizabeth Janse van Rensburg on the podium.<\/p>\n
The event, presented by Bike Hub, also offers a 50Miler from the half-way mark at Delico near Riebeeck-Kasteel. A big field started for the 80km to Malmesbury with Luyanda Thobigunya taking the win in the men’s race and Nadia Visser in the women’s race.<\/p>\n To ride 160km, or even 80km, solo is a big personal achievement for most riders. The route consists predominantly of flowing and fast-rolling dirt road. With 2,400m of climbing over the day, it certainly is not flat but very few riders struggled to make cut-off at 17h30.<\/p>\n The local Malmesbury Cycling Club raises funds through the event by taking control of the water points and marshaling on the route. Amarider is a non-profit organisation working for mountain bike trail access and as well as liability and insurance support to clubs and groups managing trails systems around South Africa.<\/p>\n A near perfect day awaited ultra-marathon riders on Saturday 20 May in Malmesbury. With no wind and dry terrain, it was a beautiful Autumn day in the Swartland for the ninth annual Amarider 100Miler. A bunch of riders were together until the first waterpoint, but then the firm favourite Erik Kleinhans of Team Topeak-Ergon left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[634,635,516,1355],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-16704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-100-miler","tag-amarider-100-miler","tag-erik-kleinhans","tag-marleen-lourens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16704","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=16704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16704"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=16704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"