{"id":16697,"date":"2018-03-07T19:15:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/video\/fedhealth-mtb-challenge-highlights-2015\/"},"modified":"2018-03-07T19:15:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:15:12","slug":"fedhealth-mtb-challenge-highlights-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/video\/fedhealth-mtb-challenge-highlights-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedhealth MTB challenge Highlights 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Durbanville (Cape Town) \u2013 Erik Kleinhans and Robyn De Groot claimed gold at the inaugural 60km Fedhealth MTB Challenge at the picturesque Meerendal Wine Estate on Sunday, 06 September 2015 in respective times of 02 hours 36 minutes 41 seconds and 03 hours 35 seconds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinning close to home is always great,\u201d said Kleinhans. \u201cI was excited when I heard that the Fedhealth MTB Challenge would take place at Meerendal. I really like the area and the racing here suits me well. I enjoyed the punchy climbs and the flowing single track. The route isn\u2019t super technical, anyone can ride it, but of course it does become a bit more technical if you\u2019re racing. Mountain biking is not all about racing, that is why the ISUZU MTB Festival is great. It\u2019s a family affair. There is an event for every member of the
\nfamily, while Meerendal has the best wines. The timing is perfect and the views on route are fantastic. I\u2019ll
\ndefinitely be back next year.\u201d Derrin Smith came in second, while Nicol Carstens finished third.According to De Groot, Stillwater Sports knows how to host great events. \u201cThe Fedhealth MTB Challenge featured open trails and beautiful views. It\u2019s a proper mountain bike race, so you do need to be fit to really enjoy it. I would definitely recommend this race. It is soul candy for a mountain biker. It\u2019s everything that a mountain biker can want and it includes activities for the entire family.\u201d Louise Ferreira came in second, while Diana Carolin finished third.<\/p>\n

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Durbanville (Cape Town) \u2013 Erik Kleinhans and Robyn De Groot claimed gold at the inaugural 60km Fedhealth MTB Challenge at the picturesque Meerendal Wine Estate on Sunday, 06 September 2015 in respective times of 02 hours 36 minutes 41 seconds and 03 hours 35 seconds. \u201cWinning close to home is always great,\u201d said Kleinhans. \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[290,3250,3257,3254,3219,3251,3249,3247,3252,3253,1747,3256,3233,3248,3223,319,2733,3258,3255],"class_list":["post-16697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-video","tag-cape-town","tag-downhill","tag-edit","tag-festival","tag-highlights","tag-hilcrest","tag-hoogekraal","tag-meerandal","tag-mountain-bike-bicycle-type","tag-mountain-biking-interest","tag-mtb","tag-professional","tag-race","tag-routes","tag-single-track","tag-south-africa","tag-w2w","tag-wines-2-whales","tag-world-class","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16697","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}