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The Cape Epic opens with the victory of Schurter-Fini

Schurter-Fini and Terpstra-Koller dominate XCO at 2024 Absa Cape Epic. The Absa Cape Epic started predictably, with the XCO teams dominating the prologue.

Written by

David Finetto

March 18 2024

@ Absa Cape Epic 2024, photos by Nick Muzik for editorial use only

The Absa Cape Epic 2024 began with its usual prologue day. 26 km and 700 meters of altitude difference on the extremely dry terrain of the Lourensford Wine State.

Nino Schurter and Sebastian Fini represent the union of two of the world’s best XCO riders and today’s effort was the closest thing to an XCO. The World Bicycle Relief-competing pair set the fastest times by 2 seconds over the Toyota-Specialized-NinetyOne team of Matt Beers and Howard Grotts.

@ Absa Cape Epic 2024, photos by Nick Muzik for editorial use only

In the women's category, this first stage brought a predictable victory for the Ghost Factory Racing team, an XCO World Cup team with outstanding athletes Anne Terpstra and Nicole Keller.

MEN'S RANKING CAPE EPIC PROLOGUE

World Bicycle Relief (Nino SCHURTER and Sebastian FINI) 1:02:38 –
Toyota-Specialized-NinetyOne (Matthew BEERS and Howard GROTTS) 1:03:29 +51
Buff Megamo (Hans BECKING and Wout ALLEMAN ) 1:04:10 +1:32
Imbuko (Marco JOUBERT and Wessel BOTHA) 1:04:15 +1:37
Wilier Vittoria Factory (Fabian RABENSTEINER and Samuele PORRO) 1:04:23 +1:45
ORBEA Leatt Speed Company (Georg EGGER and Lukas BAUM) 1:05:26 +2:48
Canyon SIDI (Andreas SEEWALD and Marc STUTZMANN) 1:05:32 +2:54
Honeycomb Pro Cycling (Marc PRITZEN and Tristan NORTJE) 1:05:39 +3:01
Buff Megamo (José DIAS and Enrique MORCILLO VERGARA) 1:05:39 +3:01
PYGA Euro Steel (Philip BUYS and Pieter DU TOIT) 1:05:48 +3:10

WOMEN'S RANKING CAPE EPIC PROLOGUE

GHOST Factory Racing (Anne TERPSTRA y Nicole KOLLER) 1:14:45
Cannondale Factory Racing (Mona MITTERWALLNER – Candice LILL) +1:05
Toyota-Specialized-NinetyOne (Sofia GOMEZ VILLAFANE y Samara SHEPPARD) +1:11
Efficient Infiniti SCB SRAM (Vera LOOSER y Alexis SKARDA) +3:10
e-FORT | PrivateClientHoldings (Léna GÉRAULT and Hayley PREEN) +5:19
e-FORT | MindBody (Margot MOSCHETTI and Costanza FASOLIS) +7:20
Cannondale ISB Women (Monica YULIANA CALDERON MARTINEZ y Meritxell FIGUERAS) +7:52
8capital (Janka KESEG STEVKOVA and Martina KRAHULCOVA) +8:43
Fortress Women (Ila STOW y Laura STARK) +9:12
Scott Calabandida | Bulls (Natalia FISCHER EGUSQUIZA and Irina LUETZELSCHWAB) +10:34

In this article:Anne Terpstra, Cape Epic, Stage races, Racing World, World Marathon Races, Nicole Koller, Nino Schurter, sebastian fini

Written by David Finetto

[email protected] I am a fan of everything that has 2 wheels: at a young age I practiced road and track cycling (Italian Allievi champion). At the age of 18 I passed into the cross country competing at national/international level as an Under23. Past Elite, I made the choice to take things more lightly from a training point of view, and my love for gravity disciplines was born, training me as an FCI MTB instructor and guide. Now I have made passion my profession by managing 2 MTB centers on the island of Elba (Bike Center Elba and Elba MTB), creating the FANTAmtb and telling in an ironic but professional way everything that revolves around MTB thanks to 365mountainbike and 365TV (YouTube'PULITI dentro BIKER fuori').