{"id":19459,"date":"2015-08-16T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/08\/16\/seyffert-finds-solo-success-at-lost-city-mtb-race-r3312\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:12:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:12:11","slug":"seyffert-finds-solo-success-at-lost-city-mtb-race-r3312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/seyffert-finds-solo-success-at-lost-city-mtb-race-r3312\/","title":{"rendered":"Seyffert finds solo success at Lost City MTB race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roadie turned mountain biker Pieter Seyffert showed his all-round racing abilities when he soloed to victory at the Bestmed Lost City mountain bike race in the Pilanesberg region of the North-West Province on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Seyffert got away on the first climb of the 55km route and stayed away over the two-lap circuit to claim an uncontested win at the Sun City resort in 1:51:40.<\/p>\n

Behind him, a ding-dong battle for second place ensued, with Kai Pritzen fighting off a strong challenge from Kobus Wagner to finish two seconds ahead of his rival in 1:53:59.<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-56647400-1439734163.jpg\"<\/a>Pieter Seyffert (Altech-Autopage) celebrates his victory in the Bestmed Lost City MTB race at Sun City in the North-West Province on Sunday. Photo: Full Stop Communications.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seyffert, who rides in the colours of Altech-Autopage, said the revamped feature route had offered a more technically demanding course with a few additional climbing challenges early on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe race started splitting up in the first six or seven kilometres and I managed to pull a gap on the first climb and just kept it to the finish.\u201d<\/p>\n

The win is sweet consolation for the 28-year-old Helderkruin resident, who punctured out of the lead bunch with 30km to go in Saturday\u2019s Lost City Cycle Classic.<\/p>\n

In the women\u2019s mountain bike race, Bestmed-ASG swept the podium, with Sanet Coetzee making a winning debut for the team in a time of 2:10:52.<\/p>\n

Her teammates Mariette Hattingh (2:17:28) and Michelle Benson (2:19:00) completed the rout, taking second and third respectively.<\/p>\n

Coetzee, who is the national road champion and marathon silver medallist in the 30 to 34 age group, also finished a respectable fifth in the Lost City road race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know how today was going to turn out because my legs were feeling a bit tired from yesterday\u2019s road race,\u201d she admitted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started quite hard \u2013 it was like a cross-country race.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old said the pace remained flat out over both laps of what she described as a \u201cproper mountain biking\u201d course.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, it turned out well for me. I won today and I\u2019m really happy about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both the road and mountain bike feature races formed part of the Lost City Cycle 4 Cansa weekend in aid of the North-West branch of the Cancer Association of South Africa.<\/p>\n

They are also part of the Bestmed National Cycling Series.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit www.cansalostcity.co.za<\/a>, find Lost City Cycle Festival on Facebook or follow @lostcitycycle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roadie turned mountain biker Pieter Seyffert showed his all-round racing abilities when he soloed to victory at the Bestmed Lost City mountain bike race in the Pilanesberg region of the North-West Province on Sunday. Seyffert got away on the first climb of the 55km route and stayed away over the two-lap circuit to claim an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3664,2444,1777],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-19459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-bestmed-lost-city","tag-lost-city","tag-pieter-seyffert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459","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=19459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19459"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=19459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}