Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Extreme Sports

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Scaled-back 2020 KAP sani2c event dodges COVID-19, wet weather conditions to deliver “great race”.

DSV Pro Cycling’s Arno du Toit and Gert Heyns won the third and final stage of the KAP sani2c at Scottburgh Golf Club in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday (December 5), securing the overall crown in a time of 06:10:38. Amy McDougall and...

Trail running’s “Golden Segment” kicked wide open

UCT graduate Robbie Rorich set South Africa's "Golden Segment" trail run on fire with a superb run in appalling conditions last week, to set up a flurry of high-quality responses from some of the country’s top trail athletes. Twenty-seven "Golden...

The Otter African Trail Run bags new sponsor, “ideal partner” in Emperor.

The Otter African Trail Run, long regarded as South Africa’s premier marathon-distance trail race, has moved up a gear with the announcement that Emperor Asset Management has signed as the event’s presenting sponsor, with ‘The Otter’ set to be...

RMB Ultra-trail Cape Town remains on course for Africa’s biggest and best trail show...

Athletes from all corners of the globe have arrived in South Africa to take part in the continent’s premier trail event, the RMB Ultra-trail Cape Town, which brings the traditional end to the global trail running season next weekend. Established...

South African trail athletes bag Golden Tickets

Johardt van Heerden and Toni McCann celebrating their respective victories at the 2019 Otter African Trail Run. Photo: Stephen Granger Leading South African trail athletes, Johardt van Heerden and Toni McCann, bagged the sought-after golden tickets on offer for the...

Golden Trail Championship Stage 3 – no technical ascent due to weather conditions; faster...

Add title Golden Trail Championship Stage 3 - no technical ascent due to weather conditions; faster track favours leaders This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is DSC_2732_60-1024x683.jpg Mount Pico beckoned briefly but the technical ascent was not to...

Healy on a high in the hills in Amadeus country

by Stephen Granger Former Sharks academy rugby scrum-half, Matt Healy, moved up several notches on the international trail-running circuit with an impressive top ten position in the recent Mozart 100 in Salzburg, Austria, and looks set to achieve further success...

Elhousine and Philemon set to take on the world in Japan at Golden Trail...

The Golden Trail World Series (GTWS), now in its sixth edition, commences its 2024 season in Kobe, Japan, tomorrow (Saturday 20 April). The series, which pits elite-level trail runners from around the world on rugged mountain courses that range from...

Whale of a time ahead for Mvuyisi

Eastern Cape trail athlete, Mvuyisi Gcogco, arrived at De Hoop Nature Reserve in the Southern Cape yesterday (Thursday 3 August) to run the Merrell Whale of Trail tomorrow, excited about the first step of an adventure which offers new...

Showtime on Table Mountain as the world’s top trail athletes line up for the...

It’s showtime for Rand Merchant Bank Ultra-trail Cape Town (RMB UTCT) as the new-look endurance event gets underway this weekend, offering competitive international trail-racing over 100 miles (the UTCT flagship), 100km (the UT100), 55km (the Peninsula Traverse or PT55),...