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Azores Golden Trail Championship likely to be the year’s most competitive trail event.

The Golden Trail Championship, which takes place over four days on the Portuguese Azores Islands at the end of October has become an effective world championship for marathon-distance trail athletes, given the cancellation of the vast majority of trail...

Morocco’s Elazzaoui second, SA’s Rorich impresses downhill as Swiss sweep Azores Trail prologue

Swiss trail runners took top sports in both men's and women's categories, with Morocco's Elhousine Elazzaoui the top African as the Golden Trail Championship got underway on Wednesday (October 28). Racing began with a short warm-up prologue over...

Sandes sets “(Mission) Impossible” 13 Peaks Challenge time

Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in the “Mission Impossible” film series. Hunt takes charge of an “Impossible Mission Force” team geared to stop an enemy force while preventing an impending global disaster. “Mission Impossible” is also the code name for the...

World-class Simpson and Tarboton race to victories at the ‘Otter’

Scottish trail athlete, Robbie Simpson, and his South African adidas TERREX teammate, Bianca Tarboton, were crowned champions at the Otter African Trail Run in Nature’s Valley today (Saturday 7 October) in the wettest edition of the race’s 14-year history. The...

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...

Simon stars in Southern Drakensberg at the K-Way Skyrun

By Kelly Burke and Stephen Granger Despite a slippery, overgrown course from heavy rainfalls in the area, Simon Tshabalala, showed once again why he is one of the leading mountain runners in South Africa, by taking the 100km 2022 K-Way...

The blitz – THIRSTI AFRICANX day one video

Video of the THIRSTI AFRICANX, day one. Filmed by Jeff Ayliffe.

Team Salomon double at the Olla de Nuria

by Stephen Granger Norwegian Stian Angermund bounced back to his best form to win the Golden Trail World Series opener at Olla de Nuria in the Pyrenees Mountains in Spain on Sunday (June 13, 2021). Golden Trail Champion, Maude Mathys, made...

World’s trail athletes gather in the Mother City for RMB Ultra-trail Cape Town

by Stephen Granger RMB Ultra Trail Cape Town (UTCT) celebrates its 10th anniversary this weekend, with athletes from almost fifty countries preparing to race one of six races on offer in Africa’s leading trail event. One of ten World Trail Majors...

“Super Pole” Przedwojewski and Switzerland’s Mathys take overall honours in the Golden Trail Championship,...

Sunday 1st November is All Saints Day in the USA and whether that influenced the outcome of the final day of the Golden Trail Championship  - The Azores Trail Run – on the Island of Faial, we'll never know. However,...