{"id":19573,"date":"2023-09-22T10:06:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T10:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/uncategorized\/video-challenge-samarkand-champions-frederic-funk-and-ellie-salthouse\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T15:32:11","slug":"video-challenge-samarkand-champions-frederic-funk-and-ellie-salthouse","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/news\/video-challenge-samarkand-champions-frederic-funk-and-ellie-salthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"[VIDEO] Challenge Samarkand champions Frederic Funk and Ellie Salthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the way from Germany and Australia: last weekend Frederic Funk (GER) and Ellie Salthouse (AUS) took the win at the inaugural Challenge Samarkand. They both loved racing in Uzbekistan, where Challenge Family&#8217;s first race in Central Asia took place. Besides the fact that they were loving to race in Uzbekistan, they both also were from another level, showing the best way possible what they are capable of as pro athletes. Here you&#8217;ll find the after race interviews with both winners. Earlier we&#8217;ve published an extensive race report including more interviews, which you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/news\/funk-and-salthouse-make-history-in-uzbekistan-with-wins-at-the-inaugural-challenge-samarkand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Frederic Funk Takes Win at Inaugural Challenge Samarkand\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3BIdmEpIMns?start=7&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Ellie Salthouse - Inaugural Challenge Samarkand Champion\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pYfyNlgB4Jc?start=7&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the way from Germany and Australia: last weekend Frederic Funk (GER) and Ellie Salthouse (AUS) took the win at the inaugural Challenge Samarkand. They both loved racing in Uzbekistan, where Challenge Family&#8217;s first race in Central Asia took place. Besides the fact that they were loving to race in Uzbekistan, they both also were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19574,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[130,131,150],"class_list":["post-19573","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-challenge-samarkand","tag-ellie-salthouse","tag-frederic-funk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[VIDEO] Challenge Samarkand champions Frederic Funk and Ellie Salthouse - Challenge Family<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/news\/video-challenge-samarkand-champions-frederic-funk-and-ellie-salthouse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[VIDEO] Challenge Samarkand champions Frederic Funk and Ellie Salthouse - Challenge Family\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All the way from Germany and Australia: last weekend Frederic Funk (GER) and Ellie Salthouse (AUS) took the win at the inaugural Challenge Samarkand. 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