Tune in for daily insights from inside the media team at the 2025 Absa Cape Epic with daily the Diverge Podcast’s daily vlogs. In the Stage 1 episode Seamus Allardice looks back on a dramatic Prologue with saw WILIER-VITTORIA’s Luca Braidot and Simone Avondetto win the first yellow jerseys of the race. Annika Langvad Sofia and Gomez Villafane, of Toyota Specialized, won the opening stage by just 3 seconds in the UCI Women’s race; which bodes well for a competitive edition, after fears of a Langvad domination dominated the pre-race speculation.

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Absa Cape Epic Results

UCI Women | Prologue 

  1. Toyota | Specialized: Annika Langvad Sofia and Gomez Villafane (1:12:33
  2. E-Fort X Chemchamp: Margot Moschetti and Samara Sheppard (1:12:36 | +3)
  3. Efficient Infiniti SCB SRAM: Vera Looser and Alexis Skarda (1:13:49 | +1:16)
  4. Cannondale ISB Sport: Monica Yuliana Calderon Martinez and Tessa Kortekaas (1:15:45 | +3:12)
  5. Titanracing Se Honeycomb: Bianca Haw and Hayley Preen (1:15:50 | +3:17)
  6. Bulls Swiss: Irina Luetzelschwab and Alessia Nay (1:16:34 | +4:01)
  7. Buff Megamo: Rosa Van Doorn and Janina Wust (1:17:29 | +4:56)
  8. Torpado Kenda FSA: Katazina Sosna and Claudia Peretti (1:17:58 | +5:25)
  9. Outsiterz D2mont Merida: Janka Keseg Stevkova and Martina Krahulcova (1:19:32 | +6:59)
  10. Cannondale ISB Sport 2: Costanza Fasolis and Stefanie Walter (1:19:41 | +7:08)

UCI Men | Prologue 

  1. WILIER-VITTORIA: Luca Braidot and Simone Avondetto (0:59:45)
  2. Scott-SRAM MTB Racing: Nino Schurter and Filippo Viero Colombo (1:00:05 | +20)
  3. Honeycomb 226ers: Marc Pritzen and Wessel Botha (1:00:49 | +1:04)
  4. Imbuko ChemChamp A: Marco Joubert and Tristan Nortje (1:00:55 | +1:10)
  5. Mitoq NZ Cycling Project: Craig Oliver and Ben Oliver (1:01:00 | +1:15)
  6. ORBEA Leatt Speed Company: Lukas Baum and Georg Egger (1:01:15 | +1:30)
  7. Torpado Kenda FSA 2: Jakob Dorigoni and Gioele de Cosmo (1:02:04 | +2:19)
  8. Torpado X Singer: Fabian Rabensteiner and Simon Stiebjahn (1:02:06 | +2:21)
  9. Outride | Toyota | Songo: Matthew Beers and Keegan Swenson (1:02:18 | +2:33)
  10. Klimatiza ORBEA: Samuele Porro and Marc Stutzmann (1:02:39 | +2:54)