Mega-stars Gerda and Stephen headline Saturday’s Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon
Two of South Africa’s distance-running mega-stars, Stephen Mokoka and Gerda Steyn, are race favourites for Saturday’s Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon, to be run on the traditional 56km course over Chapman’s Peak and Constantia Nek, but a clutch of talented...
Two Oceans Trail is back as evergreen Nicholas Rupanga eyes a podium position
The Miwaylife Two Oceans Trail Races open the 2025 Two Oceans weekend tomorrow morning (Friday 4 April) with the traditional ‘long’ and ‘short’ trail races taking place on and around the slopes of Devil’s Peak and Table Mountain.
The Two...
Underson and Marion on point at Pass to Pass Ultra-trail
Underson Ncube and Marion Leiberich produced the performances of the day at the Pass to Pass Ultra-Trail presented by Hoka, while Zimbabwe-born Admire Muzopambwa won the gruelling ‘Hundred’ in one of South Africa’s most testing ultra-trail challenges.
Now in its...
SA’s Bianca Tarboton races to memorable trail victory Down Under
Otter TERREX Trail champions, Bianca Tarboton and Robbie Simpson, turned in top performances at the Tarawera Ultra-trail by UTMB, run from New Zealand’s North Island centre of Rotorua this weekend (Saturday 15 February), with kiwi athletes Ruth Croft and...
Otter’s champions set to take on New Zealand’s best at Tarawera
Current Otter TERREX Trail Champions, Robbie Simpson and Bianca Tarboton, take on a strong international line-up at Tarawera Ultra-trail by UTMB, New Zealand’s most important trail event, this weekend.
South Africa’s premier trail marathon, ‘the Otter’, which takes place in...
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...
World trail athletes aiming for the Top of the Table in RMB Ultra-trail Cape...
by Stephen Granger
The eyes of the trail world will be focused on the southern tip of Africa this weekend as the RMB Ultra-Trail Cape Town (UTCT) hosts athletes from all continents, participating in the 10th running of Africa’s top...
Tsitsikamma and Trail Running – setting the gold standard for inclusive conservation
Victor Mokoena and his team in the Tsitsikamma section of the Garden Route National Park are increasingly setting the gold standard for an inclusive model for conservation, and SANParks’ positive relationship with the Otter TERREX Trail once again delivered...
Robbie and Bianca sizzle in heat-wave conditions at the Otter TERREX Trail
Robbie Simpson made it two in a row with a drama-filled victory at the Otter TERREX Trail, presented by EasyEquities, at Storms River today (Saturday 5 October) while Bianca Tarboton delivered the performance of the day in winning the...
The heat is on – rising temperatures could be decisive in the 16th Otter...
It’s not known as the Grail of Trail for nothing and tomorrow’s Otter TERREX Trail, presented by EasyEquities, promises to live up to this sobriquet and even surpass its heady triumphs of the past.
Over the past decade, top trail...