{"id":872957,"date":"2026-08-27T05:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872957\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T05:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:16:09","slug":"700-km-cycling-challenge-danube-ultra-to-kick-off-on-august-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872957\/","title":{"rendered":"700-km cycling challenge \u201cDanube Ultra&#8221; to kick off on August 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"377\">Around 110 cyclists from Bulgaria and Romania will take on the 700-kilometre route in the 13th edition of the \u201cDanube Ultra: Odyssey 2026\u201d cycling challenge. The participants will set off on August 30 from Bulgaria&#8217;s Vidin, the initiative\u2019s founder and organiser Boris Begamov told the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"602\">The event is not a race. Each participant chooses their own pace, with the challenge offered either as a 48-hour extreme format or as a five- or seven-day journey, with the final destination being the village of Durankulak.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"602\"><a href=\"https:\/\/old-news.bnr.bg\/en\/post\/101517075\/dunav-ultra-cycling-route-get-to-know-the-diversity-along-bulgarias-part-of-the-danube-river\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dunav Ultra cycling route &#8211; get to know the diversity along Bulgaria\u2019s part of the Danube River<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"892\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Among the cyclists who will follow the route along the Danube are 82-year-old Prof. Antoaneta Momchilova and Romanian competitor Oana Trif, as well as Iskren Ivanov from Dobrich. In 2023, Ivanov completed the 700-kilometre route in 28 hours and will now attempt to improve his own record.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"892\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Read also:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"892\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bnrnews.bg\/en\/post\/495278\/new-cycling-link-along-the-danube-can-combine-sport-tourism-and-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New cycling link along the Danube can combine sport, tourism and history<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"892\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Edited by Miglena Ivanova<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 110 cyclists from Bulgaria and Romania will take on the 700-kilometre route in the 13th edition of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-872957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}