SHARE: Family desperate to get Burry Stander’s stolen bike back
If you know where the bike could be please contact the Stander family at 079 493 7499.
For seven years and eight months the white bike frame of South African Olympic cyclist Burry Stander stood on the corner of Stott Street and the R102 in Shelly Beach.
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However, this week motorists noticed the symbolic ‘ghost bike’ was missing from its prominent roadside position.
The Stander family is devastated by the theft of the bike and is calling on the community to help get it back.
Photographs of Burry mounted on a steal plate were also stolen.
The spray-painted white bike, one of Burry’s 2008 Beijing Olympic frames, symbolised the life of the exceptionally talented athlete who was an ambassador for the country.
- Burry was a South African mountain biker, the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup under-23 men’s cross-country 2009 world champion.
- In the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, Stander finished 15th in the cross-country mountain bike race.
- In the 2012 Summer Olympics, held in London, Stander finished 5th in the cross-country mountain bike race.
- Stander paired up with Christoph Sauser in 2009 for the Absa Cape Epic. Although the team only managed 6th place that year, they then came back in 2010 to claim 2nd place.
- Finally in 2011 Stander and Sauser finished in 1st place, making Stander the first South African rider to win the Absa Cape Epic.
- In 2012 the team were victorious once again, winning the Prologue and four of the seven stages of the marathon stage race.
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