Video footage of a cyclist hit by an antelope while mountain biking in South Africa has gone viral on the web.
The incredible video has racked up over six million views on YouTube as viewers watch Evan van der Spuy get pummeled by an antelope in a South African game reserve.
The 17-year-old is the South African Youth Cross-Country Cup Series champion. He has been at the center of global attention since the incident, which was caught on film by his Team Jeep South Africa teammate, Travis Walker.
Walker was riding behind van der Spuy as they sped across an open path, part of the Time Freight MTB Express mountain race outside of Pietermaritzburg in the Albert Falls Dam Nature Reserve.
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He captured the amazing footage with a GoPro handlebar-mounted camera strapped to his mountain bike.
Max Cluer, whose business Max Cluer Sports Marketing, is both the owner of Team Jeep South Africa and owner of the event in which van der Spuy was competing, loaded the 75-second clip onto YouTube on Monday afternoon.
In the video, van der Spuy can be seen pointing and looking off to his right when the Red Hartebeest bounds into the frame and pounces on the 17-year-old cyclist.
"Whoa!" Walker can be heard yelling as the incident unfolds. "Holy cow!"
The two crash to the ground. Yet, within the blink of an eye, the buck stumbles up and bolts away.
The animal, which can weigh up to 440 lbs. and reach speeds of 40mph, was a completely unexpected obstacle.
"I saw it coming closer so I braked, thought it would go in between the gap. It hit him, lifted him off the ground, landed in the grass ... he started making weird noises and I didn't know what to do," Walker told ABC News.
"It was being in the right place at the right time and Evan being in the wrong place at the wrong time - one of those moments," Walker added of the amazing footage.
The video ends with a view of van der Spuy's shattered helmet. He was diagnosed with a minor concussion and whiplash, but was discharged by the race's medical team on Monday morning.
