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“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,...
Africa’s media landscape is entering a new age – driven by sports opportunities
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Golden Trail Championship Stage 3 – no technical ascent due to weather conditions; faster...
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Golden Trail Championship Stage 3 - no technical ascent due to weather conditions; faster track favours leaders
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Mount Pico beckoned briefly but the technical ascent was not to...
Spaniard Pere Aurell wins Otter Africa “RETTO”
Pere Aurell is the new 2020 OTTER men's champion, while South Africa's Toni McCann took the women's honours.
From the race organisers:
"Visiting South Africa for the first time from Spain, Pere started conservatively, aware that the first half was fast...
African “Ubuntu” at the Golden Trail Championship
Polish athlete, Bartlomiej Przedwojewski, swept to an exciting victory ahead of American Jim Walmsley on Day Two of the Golden Trail Championship on Faial Island in the mid-Atlantic, while Swiss athlete Maud Mathys turned the tables on Swede Tove...
Otter African brings local flavour to 2020 trail racing
The Otter African Trail Run is one of the few major trail races not cancelled this year and the cream of the crop of South Africa's trail athletes are chomping at the bit to get their competitive juices flowing...
The Golden Trail: blessings and injuries in The Azores
Horta, Faial Island, Azores
Rain is regarded as an African blessing so the weather may have been tipping a cap to the region where the sport of trail running originated centuries ago, on Thursday (October 29) as the Golden 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...
Internationals to compete in Otter African Trail Run
Top trail athletes, Pere Aurell and Ragna Debats, will give Saturday’s Otter African Trail (Retto) Run an international flavour, continuing the event’s strong outreach to leading runners from around the world.
Catalan athlete, Aurell, and Dutch-born Debats have excelled at...