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Video: Looking back at this year's inaugural NorthCape4000 ultracycling race
On the same weekend the fifth edition of the Transcontinental Race got under way this summer, a new bikepacking race began in Europe – this one taking the riders 4,000 kilometres from Italy to Norway.
Now, the organisers of the race, called the NorthCape4000, have looking back at this year’s inaugural event.
In all, 41 riders completed the unsupported race from Florence to the North Cape, which lies within the Arctic Circle and features a plateau sitting on a 307-metre-high cliff.
Along the way, participants had to pass through four compulsory checkpoints, in Innsbruck, Nuremberg, Stockholm and Rovaniemi, the capital of Finland’s Lapland region, where the checkpoint was located in Santa Claus’s office.
The NorthCape4000 will return next year, with a start date of 28 July, and you can find more information on the event’s website which is available in both Italian and English.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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