{"id":6161,"date":"2022-06-26T11:15:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/strong-performance-by-tim-smeenge-in-the-alpentour\/"},"modified":"2022-06-26T11:15:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:15:44","slug":"strong-performance-by-tim-smeenge-in-the-alpentour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/strong-performance-by-tim-smeenge-in-the-alpentour\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong performance by Tim Smeenge in the Alpentour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a few difficult races in the recent weeks, Tim Smeenge has regained good form this week in Schladming, Austria. He started the Alpentour with a solid twelfth place in the first stage behind Colombian winner Paez. In the second stage he came in eighth and in the third stage he was in the lead for a long time and managed to finish second after only Italian Daniele Mensi passed him in the long climb to the Krummholzhutte at over 1800 meters altitude.<a href=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tim-Smeenge-Stage-3-Alpentour-Marketa-Navratilova-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5251\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tim-Smeenge-Stage-3-Alpentour-Marketa-Navratilova-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tim-Smeenge-Stage-3-Alpentour-Marketa-Navratilova-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tim-Smeenge-Stage-3-Alpentour-Marketa-Navratilova-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tim-Smeenge-Stage-3-Alpentour-Marketa-Navratilova-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tim-Smeenge-Stage-3-Alpentour-Marketa-Navratilova-1-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately I had to abandon at the European Marathon Championships in Czech Republic last weekend because it really didn&#8217;t work out. It was over 35 degrees there and that was probably the cause because here in Austria at lower temperatures I immediately felt a lot better with the podium place as the highlight. In the final time trial today I finished tenth and seventh in the general classification behind winner Paez.&#8217;, said Smeenge.<\/p>\n<p>Next week the seven-day stage race Bike Transalp is on the program where I will start as a duo with Teus Ruijter.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Marketa Navratilova<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a few difficult races in the recent weeks, Tim Smeenge has regained good form this week in Schladming, Austria. He started the Alpentour with a solid twelfth place in the first stage behind Colombian winner Paez. In the second stage he came in eighth and in the third stage he was in the lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geen-categorie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}