{"id":19431,"date":"2015-08-21T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/08\/21\/mtn-qhubeka-preview-vattenfall-cyclassics-r3342\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T09:30:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T09:30:16","slug":"mtn-qhubeka-preview-vattenfall-cyclassics-r3342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/mtn-qhubeka-preview-vattenfall-cyclassics-r3342\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN-Qhubeka Preview: Vattenfall Cyclassics"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday the Vattenfall Cyclassics takes place in Hamburg, Germany, and Team MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung will be taking part in this single day World Tour event.<\/p>\n

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The Vattenfall Cyclassics is Germany’s only World Tour event and our African team will be part of the line-up once again, this after competing in the 2013 edition. The mostly flat 250km course has a few hills thrown in to soften up the legs but the general thought is the race will suite the sprinters. MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung have 2 previous winners of the German Classic, Edvald Boasson Hagen winning in 2011 while Tyler Farrar won in 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n

This year Edvald and Tyler return to Hamburg and will race alongside Gerald Ciolek, Andy Stauff, Theo Bos, Matt Goss, Reinardt Janse van Rensburg and Nic Dougall for Team MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung. With a number of fast men at our disposal the goal will certainly be to aim for the podium on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\nVattenfall is always an interesting race with it usually coming down to a fight between the late attacks in the hills and the sprinters teams trying to bring it back together. It is a race that suits our team well and we look forward to fighting for the the win here.
\nReinardt Janse van Rensburg – Rider<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n
\nVattenfall is an important race for our team and another good opportunity to make our project visible in the World Tour again. We have a good team here that are capable of a top result so that will be our ambition.
\nMichel Cornelisse – Sport Director<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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