{"id":21245,"date":"2014-03-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2014\/03\/20\/hattrick-of-victories-for-sauser-at-songoinfo-champions-race-r1288\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:10:28","slug":"hattrick-of-victories-for-sauser-at-songoinfo-champions-race-r1288","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/hattrick-of-victories-for-sauser-at-songoinfo-champions-race-r1288\/","title":{"rendered":"Hattrick of victories for Sauser at songo.info Champions Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the third consecutive year Christoph Sauser won the Aramex songo.info<\/a> Champions Race held in Kayamandi, the township outside Stellenbosch.<\/p>\n

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Lukas Fl\u00fcckiger and Christoph Sauser in action. Photo credit: Outsider Communications<\/span><\/p>\n

Fellow Swiss mountainbikers Lukas Fl\u00fcckiger and Martin Fanger joined Sauser on the winner\u2019s podium. The Aramex songo.info<\/a> Champions Race is an invitational only mountainbike race through the streets of the Stellenbosch township. It is a unique experience and only 50 riders lined up for the race that follows the Tour d\u2019Kayamandi route. Kayamandi is the home ground of the songo.info<\/a> charity and the race is held to race funds and awareness for this foundation.<\/p>\n

Annika Langvad won the women\u2019s race. She was joined by Absa Cape Epic teammate Ariane Kleinhans and Esther S\u00fcss on the winner\u2019s podium. Langvad and Kleinhans dominated the race and showed that they will be the team to beat at the Epic, that starts on Sunday.<\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s race it was a great battle between Sauser and Fl\u00fcckiger for the victory. The pace was extremely high throughout the race, but in the end Sauser got the better of Fl\u00fcckiger in the sprint to the finishline.<\/p>\n

\u201cLukas and some of the other riders were really strong today and that made for hard and interesting racing,\u201d said Sauser. \u201cI had to battle hard for the victory. This is a super cool race and with all the fast paced action really great for the spectators. I think it might the most spectator friendly race in South Africa! The noise on the final lap was amazing and really special to be part of. It is for us as riders not something we experience every time we race. Maybe just at World Championships or the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n

The main goal of the race is to bring cycling to the township of Kayamandi. Not only so that the parents of the kids that\u2019s part of songo.info<\/a> can see what the sport is all about, but also to bring supporters to Kayamandi and show them what songo.info<\/a> is all about. \u201cToday is a celebration of all that which we have achieved thus far at songo.info<\/a>. I am really proud of it all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the third consecutive year Christoph Sauser won the Aramex songo.info Champions Race held in Kayamandi, the township outside Stellenbosch. Lukas Fl\u00fcckiger and Christoph Sauser in action. Photo credit: Outsider Communications Fellow Swiss mountainbikers Lukas Fl\u00fcckiger and Martin Fanger joined Sauser on the winner\u2019s podium. The Aramex songo.info Champions Race is an invitational only mountainbike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1632,1515,719],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-champions-race","tag-christoph-sauser","tag-songo-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245","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=21245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21245"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}