Dimension Data’s Kent Main won the 137km third stage of the Tour of Good Hope, which took place in and around Paarl today.
Team DiData made a clean sweep on the podium with Main’s teammates Stefan de Bod and Italian Matteo Sobrero finishing second and third respectively. Both Main and De Bod completed the race in 3:39:56.
Kent Main won the 137km third stage of the Tour of Good Hope in Paarl today. Photo: Robert Ward
A third of the way win, 18 riders made a break and created a 20-second lead.
Stage one winner BCX’s Nolan Hoffman was first through the second hot spot, followed by Randwater-Transnet’s Shameeg Salie and teammate David Maree.
Yellow jersey Stefan de Bod suffered a mechanical and began upping the pace at the 80km mark – the same point where Maree and Pieter Seyffert made a slight breakaway.
The peloton all came together again at the 94km mark.
They stayed together for the next 20km, before Hoffman was first through the third hot spot as well. He was followed through by Maree and Alfa Bodyworks-Giant’s Rohan du Plooy.
The bunch stayed together heading up the Du Toitskloof Pass, before 10 riders made a break with just a few kilometres to go. After the field began breaking up further Main, through good support, crossed the finish simultaneously with De Bod.
Sobrero followed, beating ProTouch’s Gustav Basson by seconds into fourth.
Stage two time-trial winner Ariane Luthi, who rides for Team Spur, won the women’s race in 4:20:40. She beat Team dormakaba SA’s Carmen Buchacher by a mere second and Lucy James by six.
View more results below.
Stage three
Men
1. Kent Main (DiData) 3:39:56
2. Stefan de Bod (DiData) 3:39:56
3. Matteo Sobrero (DiData) 3:40:20
4. Gustav Basson (ProTouch) 3:40:27
5. Frans Claes (Alfa Bodyworks-Giant) 3:40:57
6. Redwan Ebrahim (WCC) 3:41:06
7. Ollie Jones (DiData) 3:41:23
8. Jayde Julius (ProTouch) 3:41:26
9. HB Kruger (ProTouch) 3:41:31
10. Alexander Worsdale (Office Guru) 3:41:52
Women
1. Ariane Luthi (Team Spur) 4:20:40
2. Carmen Buchacher (dormakaba SA) 4:20:41
3. Lucy James 4:20:46
4. Carla Oberholzer (Demacon) 4:21:24
5. Catherine Colyn 4:21:34
6. Vera Adrian (dormakaba SA) 4:23:13
7. Yzette Oelofse (Team Bestmed) 4:24:53
8. Dalene van der Leek 4:26:23
9. Anneleen Bosma 4:29:41
10. Yolandie Toit 4:29:46
Veteran men (30-39)
1. Alex Pavlov 3:53:29
2. Neil Timm 3:53:29
3. Jaco Cronje 3:53:29
Veteran men (40-49)
1. Martin Epstein 4:12:23
2. Hein Kruger 4:12:58
3. Mark Pretorius 4:13:26
Veteran men (50-59)
1. Guy le Ray Cook 4:20:34
2. Jose Antunes 4:20:36
3. Shane Daniel 4:20:40
Junior men
1. Rickardo Broxham 3:41:28
2. Callum Ormiston 3:42:01
3. Tiano da Silva 3:44:02
4. Tyrone Filander 3:57:10
5. Ethan Warrin 4:10:30
General classification
Men
1. Stefan de Bod (DiData) 7:29:43
2. Kent Main (DiData) 7:30:33
3. Gustav Basson (ProTouch) 7:31:33
4. Matteo Sobrero (DiData) 7:32:00
5. HB Kruger (ProTouch) 7:32:23
6. Redwan Ebrahim (WCC) 7:32:55
7. Gregory de Vink (Team Mad Mac) 7:34:08
8. Jayde Julius (ProTouch) 7:34:18
9. Ollie Jones (DiData) 7:34:59
10. Frans Claes (Alfa Bodyworks-Giant) 7:35:00
Women
1. Ariane Luthi (Spur) 9:03:00
2. Carla Oberholzer (Demacon) 9:04:37
3. Lucy James 9:06:18
4. Carmen Buchacher (dormakaba SA) 9:06:23
5. Catherine Colyn 9:07:50
6. Vera Adrian (dormakaba SA) 9:08:19
7. Yzette Oelofse (Bestmed) 9:09:46
8. Dalene van der Leek 9:09:47
9. Anneleen Bosma 9:14:18
10. Michelle Doman 9:17:21
Veteran men (30-39)
1. Jaco Cronje 7:57:08
2. Alex Pavlov 8:01:04
3. Bennie Viljoen 8:06:10
Veteran men (40-49)
1. Thys Oosthuizen 8:22:25
2. Julien van der Pluym 8:24:21
3. Martin Epstein 8:25:12
Veteran men (50-59)
1. Jose Antunes 8:44:40
2. Irwin Zimmerman 8:44:57
3. Shane Daniel 8:45:05
Junior men
1. Rickardo Broxham 7:35:44
2. Callum Ormiston 7:39:13
3. Tiano da Silva 7:40:44
4. Tyrone Filander 7:54:52
5. Ethan Warrin 8:08:09
