{"id":21410,"date":"2013-12-03T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2013\/12\/03\/team-sa-medal-tally-rises-in-egypt-r1120\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:15:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:15:28","slug":"team-sa-medal-tally-rises-in-egypt-r1120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/team-sa-medal-tally-rises-in-egypt-r1120\/","title":{"rendered":"Team SA medal tally rises in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

National team members Willie Smit and JC Nel claimed 4 medals in the Elite\/u23 Individual Time Trial, which took place earlier today in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, as part of the 2013 African Continental Championships.<\/p>\n

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Image credit: Cycling SA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The two under-23 riders claimed their medals from their overall results in the Elite category, as well as their under-23 race results. Only two riders per country were permitted to compete in the ITT event.<\/p>\n

Twenty one-year-old Smit, who races for Team Bonitas at home, fell just 32-seconds short of catching overall winner and Elite cyclist Daniel Teklehaimanot (25) from Eritrea. Teklehaimanot posted a winning time of 54 minutes and 30 seconds on the 42km course. Smit\u2019s second place overall earned him a silver medal, as well as a gold medal for winning the under-23 category.<\/p>\n

Nel (22) from the UCI World Cycling Centre Africa\/MTN-Qhubeka Feeder Team, finished 3rd overall, 1 minute and 9 seconds off the pace, and claimed a bronze medal in the overall category and a silver medal in the under-23 category.<\/p>\n

The medal tally for Team South Africa now stands at 6 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze.<\/p>\n

The women will continue with their competition from tomorrow when the road racing commences for the junior and Elite categories.<\/p>\n

Summary of Results \u2013 Elite Men ITT \u2013 Tuesday 3 December 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Daniel Teklehaimanot (ERI) 54:30<\/p>\n

2 Willie Smit (RSA) +00:32<\/p>\n

3 JC Nel (RSA) +01:09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National team members Willie Smit and JC Nel claimed 4 medals in the Elite\/u23 Individual Time Trial, which took place earlier today in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, as part of the 2013 African Continental Championships. Image credit: Cycling SA The two under-23 riders claimed their medals from their overall results in the Elite category, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3098,2500,396],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-african-continental-champions","tag-jc-nel","tag-willie-smit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21410","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=21410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21410"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}