Far from African shores: The Azores hosts Golden Trail Challenge
The Azores islands in the north Atlantic are dramatic. From fishing villages to green pastures and hedgerows of blue hydrangeas, lake-filled volcanic calderas and terraced tea plantations, they offer an almost bewildering array of views and terrain. One island,...
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...
Trail championships participation to strengthen Portugal – South Africa sporting ties – ambassador.
The participation of two top South African trail athletes in the Golden Trail Championship on the Portugese Azores Islands at the end of the month will strengthen sporting ties between the two countries, according to the Portugese Ambassador to...
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...
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...
Final assault on “Golden Tickets” trail prize underway
With just three days to go until the end of South Africa’s Golden Segment contest, and with it the opportunity of winning a once-in-a-lifetime trip to compete with the world’s best trail athletes on the Azores Island Group, the...
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...
McCann world-class run seals trail segment
Top women's ultra trail runner Toni McCann vaulted back to the top of the leader board of July's #Gone2Gone trail segment in Cape Town on Friday (July 31), delivering a world-class performance in trail and road running. McCann made...
South African trail running reaches new heights after lockdown
Hayley Preen celebrates after posting the fastest Gone2Gone segment time. PHOTO: Pippa van den Berg
Record-breaking runs on the Gone2Gone 21,6 km trail segment in Cape Town by leading trail athletes, Kane Reilly and Hayley Preen this week are indicative...
Cape storm backdrop for Golden Ticket opening
Gale force winds and giant waves battered the Mother City on Monday (July 13), providing a powerful setting for one of the most anticipated trail running events on the sub-continent - the official opening of the South African ‘Golden...