{"id":21372,"date":"2014-01-19T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2014\/01\/19\/huber-crushes-record-and-strong-field-to-win-attakwas-r1157\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:14:25","slug":"huber-crushes-record-and-strong-field-to-win-attakwas-r1157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/huber-crushes-record-and-strong-field-to-win-attakwas-r1157\/","title":{"rendered":"Huber crushes record and strong field to win Attakwas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swiss marathon specialist, Urs Huber (Team Bulls), shattered the course record on his way to winning the Fairview Attakwas Extreme mountain bike marathon near Oudtshoorn, South Africa on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Karl Platt (Team Bulls) leads the pack with defending champ Christoph Sauser (Specialized Racing) in tow<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo: ZOON CRONJE\/NIKON<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old former Swiss national champion clocked a time of 04 hours 47 minutes 46 seconds, almost nine minutes faster than the previous record of 04:56:29 set in 2013 by compatriot, Christoph Sauser (Specialized Racing). It was Huber\u2019s first attempt at the 121km event, which includes 2900 metres of vertical ascent.<\/p>\n

Sauser, the current marathon World Champion, was runner up on Saturday in a time of 04:54:33, with Germany\u2019s four-time ABSA Cape Epic winner, Karl Platt (Team Bulls) rounding out the podium in a time of 04:55:16. Erik Kleinhans (Team RE:CM) was the first South African home in fifth place.<\/p>\n

Current Swiss marathon champion, Ariane Kleinhans (Team RE:CM) captured her third successive Attakwas Extreme title when she set a course record in the women\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

Kleinhans clocked a time of 05:40:38, which sliced almost two minutes off her previous mark of 05:41:29 and placed her in 22nd<\/sup> place overall. Second place went to South African marathon champion, Robyn de Groot (Biogen Toyota) with Ischen Stopforth (Sasol Racing) completing the podium places.<\/p>\n

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Urs Huber (Team Bulls) solos his way to victory<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo: ZOON CRONJE\/NIKON<\/p>\n

Fairview Attakwas Extreme \u2013 121km, 2 900m ascent<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oudtshoorn, South Africa, Saturday 18 January 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leading results:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Men<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Urs Huber \u2013 SUI (Team Bulls) 04hrs 47min 46sec<\/p>\n

2 Christoph Sauser \u2013 SUI (Specialized Racing) @ 06min 36sec<\/p>\n

3 Karl Platt \u2013 GER (Team Bulls) @ 07:19<\/p>\n

4 Frantisek Rabon \u2013 CZE (Specialized Racing) @ 07:23<\/p>\n

5 Erik Kleinhans \u2013 RSA (Team RE:CM) @ 09:41<\/p>\n

6 Stefan Sahm \u2013 GER (Team Bulls) @ 09:41<\/p>\n

7 Simon Stiebjahn \u2013 GER (Team Bulls) @ 10:24<\/p>\n

8 Kevin Evans \u2013 RSA (FedGroup Itec) @ 19:38<\/p>\n

9 Darren Lill \u2013 RSA (Cannondale Blend @ 19:53<\/p>\n

10 Waylon Woolcock (Cannondale Blend) @ 19:54<\/p>\n

Women<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Ariane Kleinhans \u2013 SUI (Team RE:CM) 05:40:38<\/p>\n

2 Robyn de Groot \u2013 RSA (Biogen Toyota) @ 16:48<\/p>\n

3 Ischen Stopforth \u2013 RSA (Sasol Racing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swiss marathon specialist, Urs Huber (Team Bulls), shattered the course record on his way to winning the Fairview Attakwas Extreme mountain bike marathon near Oudtshoorn, South Africa on Saturday. Karl Platt (Team Bulls) leads the pack with defending champ Christoph Sauser (Specialized Racing) in tow Photo: ZOON CRONJE\/NIKON The 28-year-old former Swiss national champion clocked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":52640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,1852,487],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-attakwas","tag-fairview-attakwas-extreme","tag-mtb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21372","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21372"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}