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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>DRIKUS Coetzee won the Tour de Windhoek for the second time after a great solo ride on the final stage yesterday.<\/p>\n

Coetzee emerged victorious after finishing in the leader’s bunch on the Von Bach Dam road yesterday, which was won by South Africa’s Brandon Downes of Team Teg Procycling.<\/p>\n

Coetzee won the overall general classification, followed by Kimhan van der Merwe of the South African Team Tufo BMC, while Downes finished third overall.<\/p>\n

In a very exciting finale to the five-stage tour, Coetzee and Van der Merwe were dead level after Stage 3 with an overall time of five hours 31 minutes 4 seconds, with South Africa’s Brandon Downes of Team Teg Procycling third a further 42 seconds behind.<\/p>\n

In the final stage yesterday morning, Coetzee had to weather numerous attacks from the South African teams before he emerged victorious.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a tough day, the guys really attacked me all out. At a stage with about 10km to go Alex (Miller), Brandon and another Tufo BMC rider were in the lead, so I had to chase very hard on my own, but I managed to bridge the gap and draw the bunch with me back to the leaders,\u201d Coetzee said after the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that there were some more attacks and at the halfway mark a strong group of leaders attacked again, but I could at least join them, my legs felt strong. Then on the last climb about 5km before the end, the guys attacked hard again, but I could go with them and thats where I managed to drop Kimhan so I went with the other leaders till the last climb, and just made sure that Brandon didn’t get a 40-second lead over me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

It was Coetzee’s second Tour de Windhoek title following 2020, but he rated this victory higher.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels great to win the 2023 Tour de Windhoek against all the South African riders here – I think that’s probably the strongest performance of my whole career. It was a huge challenge to basically ride on my own against the South African teams, but it shows you we Namibians have the heart to do it, and I think I definitely have the mindset and the perseverance to go through a lot of depths and to see it through,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a great honour for me to have won the Tour de Windhoek and it’s definitely one of the highlights of my cycling career, but this is also for Namibian cycling – it’s awesome that the yellow jersey can remain in Namibia and that we can carry Namibian cycling just as high as we did last year. I knew I could do it, I believed in myself, and as I said, it’s for me, but also for Namibian cycling, so let’s celebrate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Melissa Hinz of Team Simonis Storm powered by Hollard won the women’s race, beating her team mate Anri Krugel into second place, while Genevieve Weber of Lela Ladies came third.<\/p>\n

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