{"id":755240,"date":"2026-06-23T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755240\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:53:10","slug":"sepp-kuss-on-home-3rd-place-at-andorra-morabanc-classica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755240\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepp Kuss on &#8216;home&#8217; 3rd place at Andorra Morabanc Cl\u00e0ssica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often that a cycling race is held in its entirety in Andorra, so for local rider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/sepp-kuss\" title=\"Sepp Kuss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sepp Kuss<\/a>, who lives in the small country, Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/andorra-morabanc-classica\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andorra Morabanc Cl\u00e0ssica<\/a> was especially meaningful. The Visma climber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/tom-pidcock-out-sprints-sepp-kuss-to-win-andorra-morabanc-classica\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">finished third<\/a>, but he was perfectly satisfied with that result afterward.With Ben Tulett and J\u00f8rgen Nordhagen joining Kuss at the start, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/visma-lease-a-bike\" title=\"Visma | Lease a Bike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visma | Lease a Bike<\/a> had a strong lineup. In Andorra, the road\u2014as was to be expected\u2014immediately began to climb, and it ultimately turned into a grueling day of racing.It was, therefore, the best climbers who would ultimately decide who would take the victory in only the second edition of the Andorra MoraBanc Cl\u00e0ssica. With Tulett also in the mix, Visma | Lease a Bike looked like a strong contender, but in the end, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/tom-pidcock\" title=\"Tom Pidcock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Pidcock<\/a> (Pinarello-Q36.5) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/pidcock-approaching-tour-de-france-form-after-home-victory-its-nice-to-be-on-the-right-side-of-the-line\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">proved too strong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more below the photo!<\/p>\n<p>Kuss: &#8216;That gave me extra motivation&#8217;And yet it was Kuss who made the move in the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PlataformaRC\/status\/2068820201320100060?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">final stretch<\/a>. Pinarello-Q36.5 teammate Chris Harper brought the American back into the race, proving to be a crucial link for winner Pidcock. Carlos Verona secured second place for Lidl-Trek, leaving third place for home rider Kuss.The American wasn&#8217;t disappointed by that. On the contrary: &#8220;I&#8217;m satisfied with this performance,&#8221; he said afterward on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamvismaleaseabike.com\/race-report\/news\/kuss-fights-his-way-to-podium-finish-in-tough-andorra-morabanc-cl%C3%A0ssica-tulett-fifth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">team&#8217;s website<\/a>. &#8220;It was a tough race, so it feels good to finish on the podium. We rode strongly as a team, but in the end, Tom proved to be the strongest in the final stretch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kuss lives in Andorra and therefore enjoyed the Andorran 1.1 race even more. \u201cI thought it was great to be able to race here. I live and train in Andorra, so it was special to ride this race. My family was cheering me on from the sidelines, and that gave me extra motivation,\u201d the American climber concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not often that a cycling race is held in its entirety in Andorra, so for local rider&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[361332,64,63,784,63663,85,63570,23372],"class_list":["post-755240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-andorra-morabanc-classica","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sepp-kuss","tag-sports","tag-tom-pidcock","tag-visma-lease-a-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}