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<\/a>Newly crowned U23 Time Trial National Champion Stefan de Bod finished second overall in the Elite category as an under-23 rider, which resulted in a gold medal for the U23 category and the silver medal in the Elite Men\u2019s category in the Time Trial at the 2017 African Continental Road Championships held in Luxor, Egypt, on Thursday 16 February. Photo credit: CyclingSA\/DoubleST<\/span>\n<\/div>\nNewly crowned U23 Time Trial National Champion, Stefan de Bod, clocked the second fastest time overall along the 43-kilometre course, 26 seconds behind Elite winner Teshome Meron (Eritrea) who claimed the gold medal in a time of 53 minutes 16 seconds. Eritrean Habtom Awet, another U23 rider, finished third overall.<\/p>\n
De Bod said: \u201cDit was \u2018n baie plat roete, baie winderig maar ek het dit my beste gegee en toe kry ek die result wat ek gekry het. Ek was happy met my performance by SA\u2019s en happy hierso. Hierdie roete was nog minder my tiepe roete maar ek dink as jy op vorm is kan jy maar enige roete ry en kan \u2018n goeie result kry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to the Road Race, De Bod said, \u201cEk hoop die wind waai dieselfde as vandag en dan is ek seker ons sal ‘n goeie result op die pad race ook kry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starting her race at 09:05 and fifth out of the start blocks, Venter tackled the dead flat 29-kilometre course in her stride, replacing the injured Samantha Sanders. Mauritian Aurelie Halbwachs-Lincoln claimed the gold medal in a time of 42:40.<\/p>\n
Venter, who prefers a power climb along her route, covered the race distance in 43:07, which was seven seconds behind silver medallist Debesay Mosana from Eritrea.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe wind was strong and it picked up during my race,\u201d said the Time Trial National Championship silver medalist. \u201cAll in all I think I went well. I could\u2019ve been better over some of the grit sections and around some of the corners. I\u2019m happy to get a medal but I feel that the traveling did play a role. I only arrived yesterday and feel that I might\u2019ve been a bit better if I had arrived here earlier to settle in a bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Summary of Results \u2013 African Continental Road Championship \u2013 Individual Time Trial<\/strong> Elite Women (29km)<\/strong> Team South Africa kicked off the 2017 African Continental Road Championships with three medals in the bag after the Individual Time Trials were held in Luxor, Egypt, on Thursday 16 February. Stefan de Bod and Juanita Venter were recipients of the three medals \u2013 De Bod\u2019s second overall in the Elite category as an under-23 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1726,1727,449],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-17079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-african-road-champs","tag-juanita-venter","tag-stefan-de-bod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079","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=17079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17079"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=17079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Elite Men (43km)<\/strong>
1.Teshome Meron (ERI) 00:53:16
2.Stefan De Bod* (RSA) 00:53:42
3.Habtom Awet* (ERI) 00:54:05
4.Willem Smit (RSA) 00:54:24
5.Valens Ndayisenga (RWA) 00:56:08
(* denotes U23)<\/p>\n
1.Aurelie Halbwachs-Lincoln (MRI) 00:42:40
2.Debesay Mosana (ERI) 00:43:00
3.Juanita Venter (RSA) 00:43:07
4.Zayed Ahmed Ebtissam (EGY) 00:43:14
5.Kidane Wahazit (ERI) 00:43:41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"