Matt Beers and Tristan Nortje became the first all-South African team to win the Elite Men’s race at the Absa Cape Epic on Sunday, 22 March 2026. The Specialized Toyota Imbuko team overturned a 13-second deficit on the final stage to become the third team in the history of the race to seize yellow on [...]
The penultimate day of the 2026 Absa Cape Epic saw Matt Beers and Tristan Nortje overturn the momentum against them and regain the initiative heading into the final day of the 22nd edition. The Toyota Specialized Imbuko combination may have crossed the Stellenbosch finish line second on the day, but more importantly, they beat the [...]
The Queen Stage of the 2026 Absa Cape Epic saw Candice Lill and Alessandra Keller put the hammer down and exert their dominance over the Elite Women’s race. The Thömus Maxon Sabi Sabi team won their 90-kilometre stage by 9 minutes and 29 seconds, from Kate Courtney and Greta Seiwald to take their general classification [...]
Stage 4 of the 2026 Absa Cape Epic produced more dramatic racing. Rosa van Doorn, the Buff BH half of Buff BH Efficient Infiniti, crashed out while fighting for third on the general classification, while She Sends Foundation outfoxed Thömus Maxon Sabi Sabi to take their first stage win. Kate Courtney and Greta Seiwald played [...]
Stage 3 of the 2026 Absa Cape Epic saw unexpected general classification action, the fourth new stage winners in the Elite Men's race, and the continued class of Candice Lill and Alessandra Keller. Marc Pritzen and Felix Stelhi powered across the gravel roads from Riviersonderend to Greyton to establish an advantage, which they held into [...]
Candice Lill and Alessandra Keller won their third stage of the Absa Cape Epic with a well-timed attack 9 kilometres from the Montagu finish line on Stage 2 of the 2026 race. In so doing, Thömus Maxon Sabi Sabi added 38 seconds to their general classification lead over Kate Courtney and Greta Seiwald, of the [...]
Stage 1 of the 2026 Absa Cape Epic saw Matt Beers and Tristan Nortje, of Toyota Specialized Imbuko, fight back from nearly 4 minutes down, after a puncture in the opening 20 kilometres, to sprint for stage victory and avoid any time losses to the day's protagonists, Buff-BH, Willier Vitoria, and Klimatiza Orbea. In the [...]
Both the racing and the weather were hot as South African riders Beers and Nortje narrowly won the opening Prologue at the 2026 Absa Cape Epic, while compatriot Candice Lill and Swiss partner Alessandra Keller dominated the women’s race. Both the winning teams led the stage from the earliest checkpoints, with Beers and Nortje winning [...]
In 2026’s third episode of the Diverge Podcast, we look back at victories on their season debuts by Matt Beers and Candice Lill at the Banhoek leg of the Ford Trailseeker Series. Lill dominated the women’s race, capitalising on her Cape Epic partner, Alessandra Keller, suffering a puncture to go solo and win [...]
In episode 2 of the 2026 season of the Diverge Podcast, we look back at a mild and fast edition of the Attakwas Extreme, speculate on how the change to time parity with the men’s race will affect the women’s category at the Cape Epic, and discuss the announcement of the Burn Camps [...]
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