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...
Top US trail athletes eye Africa
Two American athletes who enjoyed outstanding success at the recent Golden Trail Championship on the Island of Faial in The Azores may soon be racing on the African continent.
Jim Walmsley and Rachel Drake arrived in The Azores with formidable...
Africans shine at the Golden Trail Championships
The origins of trail running - a sport dominated by European and American runners - is contended territory. Did the sport start with a challenge between three runners over a mountain in the San Francisco area, or with a...
Golden Trail Championship, The Azores, Day 2 Results
Golden Trail Championship
Day Two 25km on Faial Island
Results
Men: 1 Bartlomiej Przedwojewski (Pol) 1:56:03; 2 Jim Walmsey (USA) 1:56:48; 3 Stian Angermund (Nor) 1:57:; 3 Elhousine Elazzaoui (Mor) 1:57:54; 5 Oriol Cordona (Sp) 1:59:11; 6 Frederic Tranchand (Fr) 1:59:28; 7 Remi...
“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,...
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...
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...
African trail athletes making strides in the French Alps
by Stephen Granger
British athlete Jonathan Albon and Sara Alonso took line honours at the Mont Blanc 'The Roller Coaster' Marathon over the weekend in the second of the 2022 Golden Trail World Series but not before African athletes...
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...
A Golden Championship… The Azores 2020 Trail Run is a wrap.
Had last week’s Golden Trail Championship (GTC) been a four-day cricket test, the match would have been abandoned without a ball being bowled. Trail athletes, however, embrace wild and elemental and the four-day stage race on the Azores Island...