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Sarah Cinquini is currently on the Pico del Veleta climb. The climb starts at 772m and after 39km the route reaches the peak at 3,398m above sea level. That makes a total of 2,626 vertical meters. Sarah is currently in 5th position, and we expect her to arrive in Tarifa tomorrow, Thursday.

Breve curriculum sportivo:

• Raf (2023)
• Dolomitics 24 (2018)
• Ultracycling Dolomitica – cat. Team2 (2018)
• Adriatic Marathon – cat. Team2 (2018)
• TransDolomiticsWay (2019)
• Terminillo UltraMarathon (2019)
• 24h del Montello (2020) – cat. Woman
• Romagna Ultra Race (2021)
• Ultra Apuane (2021)
• Two Vulcano Sprint (2021)
• Transatlanticway (2022)
• Race across ITALY (2023)

Photos: from checkpoint Bregenz, Col du Télégraphe, Col du Galibier and Pico del Veleta

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Kim Roelants reached the 3398m high checkpoint Pico del Veleta at 20:24 yesterday evening: “What an epic climb! A worthy finale for such a big journey.”

Kim is at the moment 200km before the finish Tarifa.

What are Kim’s experiences:
“I have been a keen cyclist my whole adult life, using my bicycle as my prior means of transport. In 2015, I discovered bikepacking and started doing solo long-distance rides. These rides range between 800 and 2000 km and I typically ride about 300 km per day, sleeping outside as much as I could. My race experience is fairly limited but in 2022, I rode the Transcontinental race. I rode 4100 km and finished in 13.5 days. So far, this my biggest achievement in long-distance cycling. I realise that the North Cape-Tarifa ride is a whole deal longer than that but I’m ready to try it.”

Photos: from Col du Galibier and Pico del Veleta.

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This is Tarifa with the Strait of Gibraltar. The light house marks the most southern point of the European Mainland. In the back clear to see Morocco, Africa with the new harbour Tanger Med and the Rif mountains.

Tarifa is the finish of the NorthCape-Tarifa bicycle adventure, and the Iberica-Traversa. On the other side just about 12km away in Tanger is the start of the Morocco-BikeAdventure Oct. 6th. You can also combine Iberica and Morocco and go for the 2-Continental BikAdventure. Start Sept. 22nd in Irun, north of Spain in the Basque country and finish in Sidi Ifni in the south of Morocco at the Atlantic Ocean.

The NorthCape-Tarifa route comes in from Algeciras, the Iberica-Traversa comes into Tarifa along the Atlantic coast on the second photo. The Iberica-Traversa and the Morocco-BikeAdventure offer a gravel/piste route and a 100% paved road route.

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Tommi Kurola from Finland made it to Tarifa last night, July 13th, at 20:11! He was welcomed by the second finisher, Juhani from Finland, with a beer. Tommi completed his epic journey from the North Cape in 24 days and 20 hours. During his journey to Tarifa, he spent the night in a room only three times.

Tommi said at the finish: This is the first time he don’t knows what is next. So far there was always something in the plan, usually again a longer distance. But this was maybe the top.
Maybe 45-SouthWest.com in 2025 and arriving in Tarifa from the Atlantic coast?

Photos: from Col d’Iseran and the finish in Tarifa

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Heiner completed his journey on July 10th, 2024, at 17:22, after 21 days and 17 hours, becoming our first-ever velomobile finisher. He initially registered to finish in Tarifa but had to change his plan before the start at NorthCape, opting to finish in Bregenz instead. Heiner thoroughly enjoyed the route.

The original NCT route includes some cycling paths protected by poles to prevent car access. To accommodate the velomobile, we made some adjustments to the route, which worked well for Heiner.

Heiner plans to return in 2026 to complete the route from Bregenz to Tarifa.

Congratulations to Heiner! It was a pleasure to meet you.

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Juhani Saario finished last night 12th of July 2024 00:24 in Tarifa. For the 7400km route to Tarifa he needed 22 days and 24 minutes. Juhani was welcomed by the first finisher Christian Englert with a beer.

Congratulations to Juhani for this great effort!

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Christian Englert in the German news:
https://www.swr.de/sport/mehr-sport/radsport/christian-englert-nordkap-tarifa-ergebnis-100.html

Christian Englert made it to Tarifa last night, July 10th, at 19:05! He finished his epic journey from NorthCape in 20 days and 19 hours, or 499 hours. The time is not yet official.

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Peter Grätzer from Switzerland finished in Bregenz 5th of July. For the 4070km route to Bregenz he needed 15 days, 12 hours and 48 minutes. Congratulation Peter, well done!

The last 3700km Peter dealt with crank issues, but nothing could stop him to finish his ride as planned in Bregenz.

Photo: Peter Grätzer at the finish in Bregenz and on the stretch NorthCape to Alta in Norway

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Tommi Kurola the second rider from Finland arrived at the checkpoint in Nice yesterday 05.07.2024 12:25 CET. Tommi is from Espoo Helsinki, 53 years old and originally a runner. He is doing long distance trail runs.

For the NorthCape-Tarifa Tommi was training all the mountain passes virtually on the computer. In Val d’Isere he said: “This mountain passes are in reality much steeper as on the computer simulation.” Anyway he was climbing up Col d’Iseran like a mountain goat.

Tommi’s experiences include:

• Northcape4000 2023 (finisher #16)
• Three peaks bike race 2022 (finisher)
• Transpyrenea en off 2018 (~1000km trail running across the Pyrenees)
• Numerous 100 mile trail running races.

Photos: Tommi at Col d’Iseran and checkpoint Nice

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