The team’s Tour in numbers:
- Four days in the polka dot jersey with Daniel Teklehaimanot
- A dream stage win by Steve Cummings on Mandela Day
- Seven top fives
- 14 top ten’s
- Fifth best team
- Serge Pauwels 13th on the General Classification
Tyler Farrar summed it up, “The Tour has been a dream come true. We had really big aspirations coming into the Tour, we set big goals for ourselves and we managed to meet every one of them so I think we really couldn’t have asked for any more out of the Tour. We won a stage, we wore a leader’s jersey, we flew the flag for the Qhubeka foundation for 21 days and that is a dream come true.”
Looking at the South Africans in the team in particular, unfortunately Louis Meintjes was forced to abandon due to illness after stage 17, but not before he wowed the world with his fifth place on the final stage in the Pyrenees on top of the Plateau de Beille, despite crashing earlier in the stage.
Reinardt Janse van Rensburg was active in the leadout for a number of top 10 finishes for Boasson Hagen, finishing 13th on stage 5 himself. He finished 91st overall.
Current SA champ, Jacques Janse Van Rensburg finished a solid 48th overall, with his best finish being 18th on Stage 10.
