{"id":16466,"date":"2018-02-25T11:13:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T09:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=16466"},"modified":"2018-02-25T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T09:13:31","slug":"weiss-takes-back-fedhealth-xterra-sa-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/press-release\/weiss-takes-back-fedhealth-xterra-sa-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Weiss takes back Fedhealth XTERRA SA Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

XERRA World Champion Bradley Weiss started his year off with a bang claiming gold at the Fedhealth XTERRA South African Championship in Elgin-Grabouw today (Saturday, 24 February 2018) in an impressive time of 02 hours 28 minutes 55 seconds.<\/p>\n

Weiss lost the XTERRA SA title to Olympian Richard Murray in 2017 after suffering a double puncture during the MTB discipline.\u00a0 \u201cThe Fedhealth XTERRA Grabouw is my favorite race of the year,\u201d admits Weiss.\u00a0 \u201cBefore the start of the swim I heard an announcement about an athlete who had gone to the Common Wealth Games and was racing today.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know what to expect.\u00a0 I exited the water in third place, but managed to close the gap by the time that we\u2019d reached the first big climb on the mountain bike discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I was back in the lead I just settled into my own rhythm,\u201d continues Weiss.\u00a0 \u201cMy lead kept building.\u00a0 I just focused on executing a good race.\u00a0 To win on home soil is very special.\u00a0 I would like to thank Fedhealth and Stillwater Sports for putting on an incredible show.\u201d\u00a0 Michael Lord came in second, while Brice Daubord (France) finished third.<\/p>\n

Carina Wasle (Austria) claimed her third Fedhealth XTERRA SA title in a deserving time of 02 hours 51 minutes 43 seconds.\u00a0 \u201cI had a very good race,\u201d says Wasle. \u201cI always start a race with the goal to win.\u00a0 My swim was perfect.\u00a0 I was first on the bike and just kept my lead.\u00a0 I am very happy to win today.\u201d\u00a0 Hayley Preen came in second, while Johandri Leicester finished third.<\/p>\n

Says Jeremy Yatt, Principal Officer of Fedhealth: \u201cThe Fedhealth XTERRA Grabouw is a great event for the serious off-road triathlete, where you can clinch one of the various age group qualification slots for the XTERRA World Championships taking place later this year. Grabouw offers unforgiving, yet breath-taking terrain, and the chance to bring your family to either participate or spur you on across the finish line. It\u2019s no wonder it\u2019s the biggest XTERRA in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

NEXT UP<\/u><\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Fedhealth XTERRA Lite Grabouw (Elgin-Grabouw Country Club, Western Cape)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
DATE:<\/strong><\/td>\nSunday, 25 February 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TIME:<\/strong><\/td>\n07:30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FORMAT:<\/strong><\/td>\n400m swim, 14km MTB, 6.5km Trail Run<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Twitter: <\/em><\/strong>@XTERRASA<\/a> \/ @Fedhealthmed<\/a><\/p>\n

Facebook:\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>XTERRA South Africa<\/a> \/ Fedhealth Medical Aid<\/a><\/p>\n

Instagram:\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>@xterrasa<\/a><\/p>\n

Website:\u00a0 <\/strong>www.stillwatersports.com<\/a><\/p>\n

For further information on the Fedhealth XTERRA Grabouw please contact 082\u00a0991 0045 or email entries@stillwatersports.com<\/u><\/p>\n

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XERRA World Champion Bradley Weiss started his year off with a bang claiming gold at the Fedhealth XTERRA South African Championship in Elgin-Grabouw today (Saturday, 24 February 2018) in an impressive time of 02 hours 28 minutes 55 seconds. Weiss lost the XTERRA SA title to Olympian Richard Murray in 2017 after suffering a double […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1206],"tags":[3027,3187,3188,2726,3014,3015,2821,3189,3190,3186,2683,3007],"class_list":["post-16466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-press-release","tag-bradley-weiss","tag-brice-daubord","tag-carina-wasle","tag-fedhealth","tag-fedhealth-xterra","tag-fedhealth-xterra-grabouw","tag-grabouw","tag-hayley-preen","tag-johandri-leicester","tag-michael-lord","tag-stillwater-sports","tag-xterra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}