Four-time Absa Cape Epic winner Karl Platt (36) and ex-Swiss mountain bike champion Urs Huber (28) of the Bulls will take part in the 2014 Absa Cape Epic.
Four-time Absa Cape Epic winner Karl Platt (36) and former Swiss mountain bike champion Urs Huber (28) of the Bulls will participate in this year’s Absa Cape Epic. Photo: Supplied
The demanding race, now in its eleventh year, will kick off with the Prologue at Meerendal Wine Estate on Sunday, March 23, and finish eight days later (Sunday, March 30) at its long-established Lourensford Wine Estate finish.
Platt is one of only nine riders to have completed all 10 races.
He stood on the podium in eight of these, and won four times – sharing the limelight with Christoph Sauser as the two most successful riders at the race.
The German credits three out of four of those victories to the legendary partnership he had with fellow German Stephan Sahm.
Even with such big shoes to fill, his new teammate Urs Huber is more than up to the task. Platt has also won the Transalp six times and was the German Marathon Champion in 2008.
Huber says that their second place in last year’s event was a sign that they are a good team.
“After our first experience together, we now know that we can be a very strong team. Of course it’s our goal to win the overall! But this is the Absa Cape Epic – you can’t plan that. We have to be focused and concentrate for the duration of the week. And of course make no mistakes.”
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