Stevic Wins World 'B' Championship Road Race
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Cape Town, South Africa — Ivan Stevic of the Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team won the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) B World Championship road race Sunday in Cape Town, South Africa.
Stevic completed the challenging 100-mile (161 km) race in four hours, one minute and 47 seconds. Namibia’s Erik Hoffman finished second and Alexandr Pliuschin of Moldova was third.
Stevic’s victory is his sixth of the season and earns him an automatic entry into the Beijing Olympic Games next year.
“On behalf of everyone associated with the Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team, I congratulate Ivan on a great win,” Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team Owner Sean Tucker said. “We are proud that he will be representing his home country of Serbia and the Toyota-United team in Beijing next summer.”
The UCI B World Championships are an opportunity for countries where cycling is not necessarily a major sport to qualify cyclists for the Olympics.
Stevic now heads back to Serbia to defend his national road race title. He will return to the U.S. for the International Tour de Toona in Central Pennsylvania, July 23-29.
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