Jerseys And Trophies

The yellow zebra jersey is worn by the overall leading team in the Men’s category, and the team in yellow after the full eight days is the winner.

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UCI MEN

The trophy was created by celebrated South African artist Niël Jonker and awarded for the first time in 2010. For the trophy, Jonker took his inspiration from the original Cape Epic logo, which included Zebra stripes, a mountain biker and the colours of the South African flag.

The sculpture is cast in solid bronze and mounted on a block of Assegai timber; the trophy stands 37cm high and weighs 8.2kg.

ARAMEX UCI WOMEN

The orange leader jersey is worn by the leading team in the Aramex Women’s category. UCI points were first awarded in the Aramex Women’s category in 2012, and in 2014 the category prize purse was boosted to equal that of the men. From 2016 UCI Women’s teams would start in a separate batch after the UCI Men, which served once again to sharpen the competition in the category.

The current Women’s trophy, designed by award-winning young Cape Town sculptor Isabel Mertz, is the second Women’s trophy to be awarded to the winners of the Aramex Women’s category of the Absa Cape Epic. It includes bronze ‘stones’, which represent the rough and unforgiving terrain that riders must overcome. The sculpture is mounted on wood from an African fig tree: in African mythology, figs and fig trees are symbols of fertility and femininity.

The Women’s trophy is the first trophy to be designed by a female artist, and the foundry in which it was cast is also exclusively used by women.

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