A sulafricana Candice Lil e a suiça Fernanda Keller foram as vencedores da edição 2026 da Cape Epic concluída na manhã deste domingo (22/3) na África do Sul. Foram sete dias de intensas batalhas. A dupla campeã venceu todas as etapas inclusive a derradeira de 58km. Na elite masculina a grande surpresa. Os donos da camisa de líder Lucas Braidot e Simone Anondetto foram derrotados pela dupla Mathew Beers e Tristan Nortje também vencedores da etapa final. O Brasil teve duas duplas entre as cinco melhores da categoria dupla mista. Gabriela Ferrola e Hugo Prado Neto como vices campeões e Cloves Elias de Melo e Daniela Costa em quarto.
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RESULTADO FINAL DAS CATEGORIAS
Elite Masculina
1 Matthew BEERS e Tristan NORTJE 26:55:51.2
2. Luca BRAIDOT e Simone AVONDETTO 26:56:56.0 +1:04.8
3. Luca SCHWARZBAUER e Samuel GAZE 26:59:25.1 +3:33.9
4. David VALERO SERRANO e Marc STUTZMANN 27:07:59.2 +12:08.0
5. Wout ALLEMAN e Martin STOSEK 27:14:51.9 +19:00.7
Open Men
1. Mark VAN ZYL e William PIAT 30:32:53.9 –
2. Jean-Pierre DU PLESSIS e Cronje BEUKES 30:35:08.3 +2:14.4
3. Tristan DE LANGE e Martin FREYER 31:32:58.5 +1:00:04.6
4. Emeric TURCAT e Alexandre BARBEROUX 31:34:03.4 +1:01:09.5
5. Kohei YAMAMOTO e Riyadh Hakim BIN LUKMAN 31:39:34.9 +1:06:41.0
Open Women
1. Jennifer BURTNER e Callah ROBINSON 44:48:47.7 –
2. Jacky SHIPENA e Jana VON BACKSTROM 50:56:10.7 +6:07:23.0
3. Tsholofelo NKOSI e Bontle PHEPISO 51:59:00.4 +7:10:12.7
4. Kelsie BUTH e Kelsey HOFFMAN 54:07:34.1 +9:18:46.4
5. Winile MAJAVU e Yomelela MFAZWE 55 :42:08.2 +10:53:20.5
Mixed
1. Jenny RISSVEDS e Simon ANDREASSEN 31:29:38.8 –
2. Gabriela FEROLLA e Hugo PRADO NETO 32:59:24.1 +1:29:45.3 – BRASIL
3. Nicholas ROCHE e Marta TORÀ MILÀ 33:27:09.6 +1:57:30.8
4. Cloves ELIAS DE MELO JUNIOR e Daniela COSTA 34:51:25.4 +3:21:46.6 – BRASIL
5. Kevin TALJAARD e Yolande DE VILLIERS 36:33:49.3 +5:04:10.5
Masters Men
1. Pavel GONDA e Tobias LÜTHI 30:02:09.8 –
2. Nico BELL e Gabriel COMBRINCK 30:24:19.7 +22:09.9
3. Christoph SAUSER e Craig URIA 30:29:17.8 +27:08.0
4. Uwe HOCHENWARTER e Karl MARKT 31:01:08.5 +58:58.7
5. Justin TUCK e Dave GEORGE 31:57:58.4 +1:55:48.6
Masters Women
1. Juanita Rose MACKENZIE E Rouxda GROBLER 40:24:37.4 –
2. Mari DU TOIT e Janine MULLER 40:53:37.5 +29:00.1
3. Maureen JORDAAN e Jenny CLOSE 41:18:09.6 +53:32.2
4. Hadas WEISS e Idit SHUB 43:17:53.9 +2:53:16.5
5. Esmari GOOSEN e Claire MALIK 46:56:48.4 +6:32:11.0
Grand Masters Men
1 Ibon ZUGASTI e Ernesto MENDOZA 31:37:09.0 –
2. Dax JAIKEL e Federico RAMÍREZ 33:07:25.5 +1:30:16.5
3. Truls VESLUM e Vidar OLSEN 33:32:25.7 +1:55:16.7
4. Bart BRENTJENS e Matthieu TANKE 33:45:12.3 +2:08:03.3
5. Raul MEDINA PORTILLO e Alberto GARCIA CANTERO 34:26:21.6 +2:49:12.6
Grand Masters Women
1. Martha KOEKEMOER e Jenny RÖNNGREN 41:22:17.9 –
2. Brigitta SCHMIDLIN e Simone EVAN S 45:15:41.3 +3:53:23.4
3. Hannele STEYN e Lisa CZEPEK 45:58:53.9 +4:36:36.0
4. Marietjie LUTZ e Junita KRUGER 46:26:06.5 +5:03:48.6
5. Uta KNAPE e Lizl HOBSON 47:32:17.2 +6:09:59.3
Great Grand Masters Men
1. Pieter MULLER e Corrie MULLER 40:14:19.4 –
2. Robert SOBEY e Darrin HINES 44:07:32.5 +3:53:13.1
3. Geert MERTENS e Jan HUYSE 44:39:47.0 +4:25:27.6
4. Andreas DIACON e Peter Anton FELBER 46:51:33.8 +6:37:14.4
5. Steve AMOS e Dobri STANISAVLJEVIC 48:01:37.1 +7:47:17.7