{"id":19072,"date":"2015-11-05T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/11\/05\/bigla-pro-cycling-team-heads-to-south-africa-r3762\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T09:05:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T09:05:55","slug":"bigla-pro-cycling-team-heads-to-south-africa-r3762","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/bigla-pro-cycling-team-heads-to-south-africa-r3762\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigla Pro Cycling Team Heads To South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bigla Pro Cycling Team will be heading to South Africa to race the Momentum 947 Cycle Challenge. The popular mass participation event has for the first time this year received UCI 1.1 status for the women\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-07297400-1446719747.jpg\" data-fileid=\"625969\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"625969\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-07297400-1446719747.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-07297400-1446719747.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BPCT will be led by former winner Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, Clara Koppenburg, Doris Schweizer and Sharon Laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to racing in South Africa for the first time,\u201d Team Manager, Thomas Campana said. \u201cThis event is important for Ashleigh so we\u2019ve sent a team there to support her. We\u2019re grateful to the organisers for the invite extended to us and we\u2019re looking to make them proud with some great racing at this world class event. They\u2019re one of the biggest events in the world and to make this investment in women\u2019s cycling is great. We\u2019re more than happy to support their endeavours in growing women\u2019s cycling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several other international teams will also be taking part as well local and invitational teams from Botswana, Eritrea, Israel, Namibia, Rwanda and Mauritius. The Momentum 947 Cycle Challenge takes place in November in Johannesburg every year with 33000 participants in the road race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to have the Bigla Pro Cycling Team join us this year,\u201d race organiser, Tanya Harford said. \u201cIt\u2019s that time of the year when Cycle Challenge takes over Johannesburg and together with our sponsors, we\u2019re particularly excited for the women\u2019s event. As always we\u2019ve got committed media coverage and great TV exposure, all that will aid the development of women\u2019s cycling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bigla Pro Cycling Team will be heading to South Africa to race the Momentum 947 Cycle Challenge. The popular mass participation event has for the first time this year received UCI 1.1 status for the women\u2019s race. BPCT will be led by former winner Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, Clara Koppenburg, Doris Schweizer and Sharon Laws. \u201cWe\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2047,3371,2074,3320],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-19072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-947-cycle-challenge","tag-bigla","tag-bigla-pro-cycling-team","tag-momentum-947-cycle-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072","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=19072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19072"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=19072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}