{"id":21934,"date":"2013-04-10T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2013\/04\/10\/usn-cup-series-3-delivers-thrilling-race-experience-r573\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:32:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:32:19","slug":"usn-cup-series-3-delivers-thrilling-race-experience-r573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/usn-cup-series-3-delivers-thrilling-race-experience-r573\/","title":{"rendered":"USN Cup Series #3 delivers thrilling race experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third leg of the 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usn.co.za\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ultimate Sports Nutrition<\/a> (USN) MTB Cup Series is done and dusted and the competitors are now taking a well-earned rest before their next race! The third race of the Series attracted nearly 1000 riders and we are now just three races away from crowning the winner after the grand finale in October.<\/p>\n<p>The third race took place on Saturday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsorah.com\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">B\u2019sorah Luxury Tented Camp<\/a>, Bassora Farm in Broederstroom, North West Province. It was the first time this route has been included in the USN MTB Cup Series and riders were challenged by the combination of single game and cattle tracks, which were complemented with lung busting climbs on tough jeep tracks and a few descents that required a serious degree of skill.<\/p>\n<p>Judging on the Twitter discussions, riders of the race really enjoyed the new route and venue.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the Tweets included the following:<\/p>\n<p>The preceding week\u2019s rain softened the underfoot conditions and the slightly cooler autumn weather made the riding experience increasingly pleasurable and comfortable for all the competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The overall winners of the USN MTB Cup #3 are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>50km:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.\t\t Shaun-Nick Bester\t\t 02.01.33<\/p>\n<p>2.\t\t Stephan Reyneke\t\t  02.01.34<\/p>\n<p>3.\t\t Arno Du Toit\t\t\t\t  02.02.18<\/p>\n<p><strong>30km:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.\t\t Jacques Pretorius\t\t  01.25.18<\/p>\n<p>2.\t\t Raymond Wagener\t    01.25.18<\/p>\n<p>3.\t\t Bryn Freeman\t\t\t    01.31.15<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ladies winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>50km:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.\t\t Yolandi Du Toit\t\t\t  02.11.02<\/p>\n<p>2.\t\t Amy McDougall\t\t\t 02.11.30<\/p>\n<p>3.\t\t Michel Coetzer\t\t\t  02.17.08<\/p>\n<p><strong>30km:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.\t\t Danielle Rheeder\t\t    01.56.46<\/p>\n<p>2.\t\t Denni Cartwright\t\t    02.06.07<\/p>\n<p>3.\t\t Christine Popich\t\t    02.10.49<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Victor, race MC and organiser, says, \u201cWe are very pleased with how the new route turned out. Our riders have provided us with great feedback and we will definitely look at using this location again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full race results of race #3 can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usn.co.za\/uploads\/editor\/USN%20MTB%20Cup%20Results%203%202013.pdf\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth leg of the 2013 USN MTB Cup takes place on Saturday 8 June, at the Big Red Barn in Midrand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third leg of the 2013 Ultimate Sports Nutrition (USN) MTB Cup Series is done and dusted and the competitors are now taking a well-earned rest before their next race! The third race of the Series attracted nearly 1000 riders and we are now just three races away from crowning the winner after the grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21934","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=21934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21934"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}