{"id":21407,"date":"2013-12-05T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2013\/12\/05\/uci-medal-for-hoffman-in-mexico-r1123\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:15:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:15:24","slug":"uci-medal-for-hoffman-in-mexico-r1123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/uci-medal-for-hoffman-in-mexico-r1123\/","title":{"rendered":"UCI medal for Hoffman in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

South African track cycling star Nolan Hoffman claimed a bronze medal in the 15km Scratch race at the \u201cwarm-up\u201d UCI track cycling race, Copa Interna\u00e7ional de Pista, in Mexico at the weekend. The event preceded Round 2 of the UCI Track World Cup Series, also taking place in Mexico, in Aguascalientes, from 5-7 December 2013.<\/p>\n

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Image credit: Team Abantu<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Team Abantu sprinter said that it was a tough battle competing against teams of 3-4 riders from countries such as Italy and Argentina, while Mexico fielded an 8-man line-up. Hoffman also competed in the 30km Points race, where he finished in 9th place.<\/p>\n

Hoffman (28) and Olympian Bernard Esterhuizen (21) will both be competing at the Track World Cup in Aguascalientes from Thursday 5 December. Hoffman will compete in the Scratch and Points races, which are endurance disciplines, while Esterhuizen will compete in the Sprint an 1km events.<\/p>\n

Summary of Results \u2013 Copa Internacional de Pista (MEX)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Men \u2013 Elite 15km Scratch Race \u2013 1 December 2013 <\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Facundo LEZICA (ARG)<\/p>\n

2 Alberto COVARRUBIAS (MEX)<\/p>\n

3 Nolan HOFFMAN (RSA)<\/p>\n

4 Alex BUTTAZZONI (ITA)<\/p>\n

5 Unai ELORRIAGA ZUBIAUR (ESP)<\/p>\n

6 Sebastian MORA VEDRI (ESP)<\/p>\n

7 Armando PAGAZA (MEX)<\/p>\n

8 Ivan CARBAJAL (MEX)<\/p>\n

9 Jos\u00e9 VALERO (MEX)<\/p>\n

10 Diego Johnathan YEPEZ ARELLANO (MEX)<\/p>\n

Men \u2013 Elite 30km Points Race \u2013 30 November 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Diego Johnathan YEPEZ ARELLANO (MEX)<\/p>\n

2 Sebastian MORA VEDRI (ESP)<\/p>\n

3 Riccardo DONATO (ITA)<\/p>\n

4 Facundo LEZICA (ARG)<\/p>\n

5 Alberto COVARRUBIAS (MEX)<\/p>\n

6 Jos\u00e9 Ramon INFANTE AGUIRRE (MEX)<\/p>\n

7 Branislaa SAMOILAN (BLR)<\/p>\n

8 Walter Fernando PEREZ (ARG)<\/p>\n

9 Nolan HOFFMAN (RSA)<\/p>\n

10 Alex BUTTAZZONI (ITA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South African track cycling star Nolan Hoffman claimed a bronze medal in the 15km Scratch race at the \u201cwarm-up\u201d UCI track cycling race, Copa Interna\u00e7ional de Pista, in Mexico at the weekend. The event preceded Round 2 of the UCI Track World Cup Series, also taking place in Mexico, in Aguascalientes, from 5-7 December 2013. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[726,1696,93,5076],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-nolan-hoffman","tag-track","tag-uci","tag-uci-track-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21407","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21407"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}