In just over a month, the legendary Cape Epic starts in Durbanville, South Africa. The German-Swiss duo Karl Platt and Urs Huber want to be right at the top there. Judging by their preparatory races, the two have a good chance of achieving their goal. The Tankwa Trek over three days of racing is one stop on the way to the Cape Epic.

The first stage over 88 kilometers and 1,900 meters of altitude difference goes to Karl Platt. Urs Huber crossed the finish line just one second behind him in second place. Konny Looser rides to fourth place in the team classification together with Adriaan Louw. Ralph Näf and Martin Gujan finish seventh.

On the second, 91-kilometer stage, Urs Huber races to victory with one of his famous solo rides. Team colleague Platt finished second and Waylon Woolcock third. Konny Looser and Adriaan Louw finish third in the team race. The winners were once again the Germans Simon Stiebjahn and Tim Böhme. The Näf/Gujan duo finish the race in fourth place.

On the third stage, Urs Huber again rides alongside his victorious team colleague Karl Platt and finishes in second place. Huber wins the overall classification ahead of Platt and Woolcock. Among the teams, Christoph Sauser's Cape Epic partner Frantisek Rabon and Erik Kleinhans came out on top. They win the last stage, over 63 kilometers, in a sprint against Brendan Davids and James Reid. Konny Looser and Adriaan Louw finish fourth and move up to second place overall. The overall victory goes to Brendan Davids and James Reid. Ralph Näf and Martin Gujan, like the previous leaders Böhme and Stiebjahn, are no longer to be found in the classification and are therefore eliminated from the overall rankings.

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