The three-day Wines2Whales mountain bike stage race in South Africa once again attracted some top-class names such as Matt Beers, Lukas Baum and marathon aces Hans Becking and Wout Alleman to the start line this year. However, the victory was snatched by someone else. The Swiss-South African pairing of Gravel specialist Felix Stehli and former Wines winner Marc Pritzen relegated Becking/Alleman and Terlouw/Foster to the places of honor thanks to two stage wins.