We were riding halfway up a long, muddy and steep gravel road climb outside Wellington, bitterly cold rain being blown into our faces from a grey, leaden sky when the hand radio in my back pocket crackled to life: ‘Urgent. Rider down …’.
Sina Frei of Switzerland and Laura Stigger of Austria (NinetyOne-songo-Specialized) have wrapped up the 2021 Absa Cape Epic in utmost style as they lead the race from start to finish, winning the overall title at Val de Vie today.
The Race That Measures All very nearly saw a new stage winner in the women’s race in Wellington today. But in the end, Sina Frei and Laura Stigger (NinetyOne-songo-Specialized) won a sprint finish to claim their seventh straight win (one Prologue and six stages).
Martin Frey and Simon Stiebjahn won Stage 6 of the Absa Cape Epic in Wellington today. It was the first stage win for the BULLS 2 pair at the 2021 event. The stage win for Stiebjahn was his first in eight Absa Cape Epic appearances.
On Sunday (17 October 2021), exactly 938 days since the chapter was closed on the 2019 Absa Cape Epic, The Race That Measures All makes a grand return.
UCI WorldTour team, BORA–hansgrohe, are swopping their Tarmacs for Epics and taking on the 2021 Absa Cape Epic. In Lennard Kämna and Ben Zwiehoff they will be represented by two riders from varying ends of the mountain bike experience spectrum.