{"id":6213,"date":"2023-09-10T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/tim-smeenge-ends-appenninica-mtb-stage-race-on-the-podium\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T10:02:09","slug":"tim-smeenge-ends-appenninica-mtb-stage-race-on-the-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/tim-smeenge-ends-appenninica-mtb-stage-race-on-the-podium\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Smeenge ends Appenninica MTB stage race on the podium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Vidiciatico, Italy, Tim Smeenge concluded the Appenninica MTB stage race on Saturday with a third place in the stage, which also secured his third place in the general classification behind compatriot Hans Becking and the Portuguese Tiago Ferreira. A day earlier, the Drent finished fourth in the penultimate stage from Fanano to Vidiciatico.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5465\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5465\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AM23_S6_FRANCESCO_NARCISI_DSC00283.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5465\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AM23_S6_FRANCESCO_NARCISI_DSC00283-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AM23_S6_FRANCESCO_NARCISI_DSC00283-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AM23_S6_FRANCESCO_NARCISI_DSC00283-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AM23_S6_FRANCESCO_NARCISI_DSC00283-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AM23_S6_FRANCESCO_NARCISI_DSC00283-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">during the 2023 Appenninica mountain bike stage race held in the Emilia-Romagna Apennines in Italy. image by Francesco Narcisi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8216;The last stage was a short one of 36 kilometers and I attacked with Hans immediately after the start and we reached the top of the first climb together. On the descent I had to let Hans go and Ferreira and MartinoTronconi joined me. However, on the second climb they were just too strong for me, but because Tronconi crashed on the descent, I still ended the last stage with a podium place. Now let&#8217;s get some rest and then off to the Hondsrug Classic in my &#8216;backyard&#8217;, says Smeenge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Vidiciatico, Italy, Tim Smeenge concluded the Appenninica MTB stage race on Saturday with a third place in the stage, which also secured his third place in the general classification behind compatriot Hans Becking and the Portuguese Tiago Ferreira. A day earlier, the Drent finished fourth in the penultimate stage from Fanano to Vidiciatico. &#8216;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6213","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\/6213","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=6213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}