Who can keep undefeated champion Annika Langvad from record sixth win? - Contenders for 2025 Cape Epic

Howard Grotts and Matthew Beers complete stage 7 as GC winners of the 2024 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race
Howard Grotts and Matthew Beers complete stage 7 as GC winners of the 2024 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race (Image credit: Sam Clark/Cape Epic)

From among the mass of 750 two-person teams assembled at this year's 2025 Absa Cape Epic, it is clear that there will be a laser focus on one pairing - Annika Langvad and Sofia Gomez Villafañe (Toyota Specialized). The dynamic duo have six victories and 31 stage wins between them, with Langvad alone holding five overall wins, and in 2025, she has the opportunity to make history as the first rider to win the event six times.

Firmly entrenched as the largest full-service mountain bike stage race in the world, Absa Cape Epic takes place March 16 to 23 in the Western Cape province of South Africa. 

Jackie Tyson
North American Production editor

Jackie has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast). Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France), and some mtb rides in Park City, Utah (USA).

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