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<\/a><\/p>\nPhoto Credit: www.cyclenation.co.za<\/span><\/p>\n Calvin Beneke lead the team home to take victory for the development squad that acts as a feeder team to Team MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung. Beneke\u2019s teammates Meron Amnuel and Costa Siebeb were second and third respectively in a clean sweep of the podium.<\/p>\n \u201cI am very happy to win here as I see this as my home race because these are the roads I train on everyday,\u201d Beneke said. \u201cI think we are really starting to gel as a team now and getting to know each other well, which is great for us.\u201d<\/p>\n The race split up as it entered Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve with eleven riders making up the front split. The MTN-Qhubeka World Cycling Centre Africa team had eight riders represented in the move as Beneke explains.<\/p>\n \u201cInitially we plan to put the race in the gutter and split it up before we got to the reserve. We had to adapt our plan and set a fast pace on the hills in the reserve and pretty much rode a team time trial till the finish. We had to worry about Paul van Zweel (Europcar), Jayde Julius (Bonitas) and Dylan Girdlestone (BMC-Westvaal) who made the move so with 10 kilometres to go we took turns to attack. I got away with Alem Grmay and the other guys in the team then rode across to us,\u201d Beneke concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The MTN-Qhubeka World Cycling Centre Africa team put on an impressive performance during the Rand Water Race for Victory on Sunday. The 150 kilometre event is known as one of the toughest in Gauteng, as a large part of race goes through the Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve. Photo Credit: www.cyclenation.co.za Calvin Beneke lead the team home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4748,1838],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-gauteng","tag-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21569","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=21569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21569"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}