(1987-09-16)16 September 1987 Port Shepstone, South Africa
Died
3 January 2013(2013-01-03) (aged 25) Shelly Beach, South Africa
Height
1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Team information
Discipline
Mountain bike racing
Role
Rider
Rider type
Cross-country
Major wins
Mountain bike
XC World Cup
2 individual wins (2009, 2012)
Cape Epic (2011, 2012)
Medal record
Representing South Africa
Men's Mountain bike marathon
World Championships
2010 Sankt Wendel
Men's race
Cross-country mountain biking: competitor in the men's under 23 division at the 2009 UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships held at Mount Stromlo, near Canberra, Australia. Stander wins the under 23 men's XC title.
Burry Willie Stander[1] (16 September 1987 – 3 January 2013) 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.[1] 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.
Stander died on 3 January 2013 after being hit by a taxibus while finishing a training ride and returning to his Concept Cyclery Shop in South Africa. The KwaZulu-Natal minibus taxi driver who struck Stander down was convicted of culpable homicide on 17 April 2015 at the Port Shepstone Magistrates Court, and was sentenced to three years in prison.[2]
^ abEvans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Burry Stander". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
^Koyana, Xolani. "Taxi driver convicted for Burry Stander's death". ewn.co.za. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
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