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Extreme Sports

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Top of the Table for Kane and Bianca at the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon...

Cape Town athletes, Kane Reilly and Bianca Tarboton, were crowned Table Mountain royalty at the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon Vertical Challenge this evening (Thursday 12 October), the event opener of the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon (SCTM)weekend festival of running, which...

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...

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...

Western Europe’s highest mountain woos Africa’s trail runners (part 2)

By Stephen Granger While the full circumnavigation around Mont Blanc in the form of the Ultra-trail Mont Blanc 100 miler is undoubtedly the showpiece of this week’s running festival at the French Alpine town of Chamonix, the shorter-distance faces have...

Elazzaoui flies Africa’s flag at the Golden Trail

By Stephen Granger Leading Moroccan trail athlete, Elhousine Elazzaoui, flies the African flag at this weekend’s grand finale of the 2021 Golden Trail Series on the island of El Hierro in the Canary Island Group. The Atlantic Ocean island lies a...

An adventurer turns to trail running

By Stephen Granger Well-known South African adventurer and mountaineer, Sibusiso Vilane, has a new challenge in his sights – to race the Otter African Trail Run in the Southern Cape on Saturday 9 October in conjunction with many of 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...

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...

Mountain runners to fly high in first Vertical Kilometre challenge

Running-related competitions, whether on track, road, cross-country or trail, typically take place over distances measured horizontally on the earth’s surface.  The commencement today (Thursday 13 October) of Sanlam Cape Town Marathon’s weekend of running, however, sees a footrace measured...

Simpson and McCann shine brightly in the Ultra-trail Cape Town 55km

Robbie Simpson and Toni McCann took the honours on Day One of the RMB Ultra-trail Cape Town this morning (Friday 24 November), racing clear of their rivals in the 55km ‘Peninsula Traverse’ which took place on Cape Town’s trails,...
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