{"id":17831,"date":"2016-07-26T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016\/07\/26\/video-2016-bike-transalp-powered-by-sigma-highlights-r5277\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T07:53:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:53:39","slug":"video-2016-bike-transalp-powered-by-sigma-highlights-r5277","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/video-2016-bike-transalp-powered-by-sigma-highlights-r5277\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: 2016 BIKE Transalp powered by Sigma Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaw-dropping mountain bike trails, gorgeous views, demanding Alpine passes, and picturesque stopovers high in the mountains: 1,200 contestants from over 40 nations faced the challenge of the 2016 BIKE Transalp powered by Sigma.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OH4dBGAmWlU?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>From July 17 to 23, 2016, the most famous mountain bike 2-man-team stage race in the world was held for the 19th time and led the riders across the main chain of the Alps from Austria to Italy. The new route spoilt the participants with less asphalt, more single track, steeper uphills, challenging downhills and therefore more fun in total. For the first time ever, the race started at Imst, Tyrol, Austria, and finished at Arco, Trentino, Italy, near Lake Garda. From Imst over Nauders, Scuol, Livigno, Bormio, Mezzana, and Trento to Arco, the riders tackled 519.03 kilometres in distance and 17,736 metres in altitude within seven days.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-08101300-1469528686.jpg\" data-fileid=\"769812\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"769812\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-08101300-1469528686.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-08101300-1469528686.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><span class=\"italic text-sm text-slate-500 block mt-1 mb-4\">Please credit: Markus Greber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hermann Pernsteiner (AUT) and Daniel Geismayr (AUT) of Team Centurion Vaude 2 needed 22:48:50:0 hours for the route and won Transalp for the first time ever. 2nd place went to Karl Platt (GER) and Urs Huber (SUI) of Team Bulls 1 (+ 16:34:8). Johnny Cattaneo (ITA) and Tony Longo (ITA) of Wilier Force 1 (+ 21:45:3) took 3rd.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-81319600-1469528686.jpg\" data-fileid=\"769813\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"769813\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-81319600-1469528686.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-81319600-1469528686.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><span class=\"italic text-sm text-slate-500 block mt-1 mb-4\">Please credit: Markus Greber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-29268500-1469528687.jpg\" data-fileid=\"769814\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"769814\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-29268500-1469528687.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-29268500-1469528687.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><span class=\"italic text-sm text-slate-500 block mt-1 mb-4\">Please credit: Markus Greber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For further information please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bike-transalp.de\/en\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.bike-transalp.de\/en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaw-dropping mountain bike trails, gorgeous views, demanding Alpine passes, and picturesque stopovers high in the mountains: 1,200 contestants from over 40 nations faced the challenge of the 2016 BIKE Transalp powered by Sigma. From July 17 to 23, 2016, the most famous mountain bike 2-man-team stage race in the world was held for the 19th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2469,2470],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-17831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-bike-transalp","tag-transalp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831","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=17831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17831"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=17831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}