Nico Bell and Matt Beers won the 75km opening stage of the 3 Towers stage race at Mankele in Mpumalanga today.
The NAD Pro pair completed the race in 2:44:15, beating PYGA Euro Steel’s Matthys Beukes and Philip Buys into second by just over three minutes. NAD Pro’s second team, Wessel Botha and Gawie Combrinck, completed the podium.
NAD Pro’s Matt Beers (front) and Nico Bell, pictured here at the sani2c Race, won the 75km opening stage of the 3 Towers stage race today. Photo: Anthony Grote
Power Couple’s Pieter du Toit and Danielle Strydom won the mixed category in 3:19:22, while Galileo Risk’s Theresa Ralph and Sarah Hill took the spoils in the women team’s race in 3:19:35.
View more results below.
Stage one
Men teams
1. Nico Bell & Matt Beers (NAD Pro) 2:44:15
2. Matthys Beukes & Philip Buys (PYGA Euro Steel) 2:47:21
3. Wessel Botha & Gawie Combrinck (NAD Pro 2) 2:52:58
4. Dylan Rebello & Marco Joubert (Imbuko Momsen MTB) 2:54:17
5. Craig Uria & Andrew Duvenhage (NFB Spine & Sport) 3:03:09
6. Barend Burger & Christo Carelsen (Bell’s Demacon Cycling) 3:08:30
7. Burger Bester & Hendrik Bester (Stefanutti Stocks) 3:15:34
8. Rob Pearse & Robert Cooke (Rob & David) 3:17:35
9. Igna de Villiers & Shaun Scott (LGE Midas) 3:20:09
10. Nohan van Tonder & Heine Engelbrecht (Laeveld Trekkers/contactpoint.info) 3:28:24
Mixed teams
1. Pieter du Toit & Danielle Strydom (Power Couple) 3:19:22
2. Joanna van de Winkel & Marc Rodrigues (Dunkeld Cycles) 3:20:32
3. Yolandi du Toit & Ben Melt Swanepoel (Garmin) 3:37:44
Women teams
1. Theresa Ralph & Sarah Hill (Galileo Risk) 3:19:35
2. Amy McDougall & Samantha Sanders (dormakaba SA) 3:22:38
3. Rentia Denissen & Natalie Bergstom (Bush Babes) 4:31:37
