Despite the strenuous terrain, the high temperatures, and the distances per stage, Team Medscheme’s Hanco Kachelhoffer and Nic White managed to finish the 2010 Tour de Boland on exactly the same time.

Kachelhoffer won the Tour overall on stage count back - as he had finished in the top four on every stage.  Kachelhoffer and White’s winning time over the four days was 13 hours 2 minutes and 46 seconds.

White won the last stage when he crossed the finish line in a solo ride up the steep Taalmonument Hill in Paarl.  Medscheme’s Kachelhoffer and Luthando Kaka took second and third place respectively on this final stage, after having spent almost 4 hours on the 140 kilometre stage.

The German, former Tour de France participant David Kopp (Kuouta-Indeland) took the overall third place at the end of the Tour, beating David Garrett (Daikin-GU) into forth by one second.

An overall victory wasn’t part of Kachelhoffer’s plans: “Naturally, we wanted someone on the team to win the tour. My goal was to win stages,” said Kachelhoffer. “I tried in the first and second stage but couldn’t get the victory and then finally I won the third stage and with that took the lead in the tour.”

Kachelhoffer was full of praise for the Tour de Boland: “If you look at the limited budget Hendrik Lemmer had to work with, he did an amazing job. It was my first Tour de Boland. Medscheme will come back again.”

Kachelhoffer added that Lemmer only need to get some more prominent teams to ride in the Tour de Boland to bring it on par with the Giro del Capo.