South African trail runners chasing Golden Tickets
Table Mountain, one of the continent’s most iconic landmarks, holds the fate of South Africa’s top trail athletes hoping to win a Golden Ticket and a trip of a lifetime to the Azores. Top runners will be vying for...
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...
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...
South Africa’s Mackenzie and Rorich to take on world’s best in Azores
Following the successful return to international track and road running competition in recent weeks, trail running is set to follow suite, with an important international event scheduled to take place on the Portuguese Azores Islands at the end of...
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...
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...
Golden Trail World Series attracts African runners from across the continent
Leading South African trail athlete, Meg Mackenzie, is set to race the Olla de Nuria in the Pyrenees Mountains next Saturday (13 June 2021) – the first race of the 2021 Golden Trail World Series (GTWS) - while several...
Table Mountain “Golden Trail” route still “padlocked”
Leading trail and mountain athlete, Meg Mackenzie, scorched a 30 km route on Saturday (July 4) in a run planned to open the ‘Strava Segment’ for a much anticipated Golden Ticket challenge on Cape Town's Table Mountain - before...
Golden Trail kicks off with tough Spaniard
Trail running turns golden this weekend with the running of the feared 21,5km Olla de Núria in the Spanish Pyrenees on Sunday.
After COVID cancellations of the 2020 Golden Trail World Series season and the planned 2021 opener at Zegama, the...
How trail running’s focus on health is enabling a zero-tolerance doping culture.
Trail running, of all the athletics disciplines, would appear the least likely to attract drug cheats. One definition of the sport is "running in the heart of nature". The sport's promotion of a healthy lifestyle would appear to make...