World Mountain and Trail Running Championship delivers top performances on extreme trails in Austrian...
The curtain came down on the second World Mountain and Trail Running Championship in Innsbruck, Austria, over the weekend, an event which took the sport to an unprecedented level of competitiveness.
German athlete, Ida-Sophie Hegemann is dwarfed by some of...
Africa’s extraordinary distance running prowess: South Africans dominate the 96th Comrades Marathon
Tete Dijana and Gerda Steyn defied the odds to set new records at Africa's biggest - and best-known - ultra-marathon.
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South Africans Tete Dijana and Gerda Steyn shattered records and set new ones and, in the process, showed...
Angermund and Geoffray take the Short Trail titles at the World Championships in...
Extreme physical challenges, exceptional beauty and intensely competitive racing have characterised the first half of the second World Mountain and Trail Running Championships, taking place in the Innsbruck region of Austria, with African athletes prominent in the Vertical Challenge...
Strong African teams challenge for medals at World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in...
Kenyan, Uganda and South Africa will spearhead Africa’s challenge next week among the world’s best trail athletes at the second World Mountain and Trail Running Championships, which takes place in the Tyrolian Mountain centre of Innsbruck in Austria.
An athlete...
Sandes wins inaugural race in the MUT mud at George
Forty-year-old trail legend, Ryan Sandes, showed there’s still competitive life in his legs when he raced to an emphatic victory in the Mountain Ultra Trail 100 miler (MUT Miler by UTMB) which took place on mountain trails around the...
Trail runners connect two iconic mountain massifs in George this weekend
Two major mountains on separate continents will be connected this weekend as trail athletes from Africa and further afield gather in the Southern Cape for one of the year’s leading trail running festivals.
The Mountain Ultra Trail (MUT), run from...
Great season opener for Toni at La Palma
South African trail athlete, Toni McCann, raced to an emotional season-opening victory at the Transvulcania by UTMB ‘Volcanes’ 48 km on the Spanish island of La Palma yesterday morning (6 May), with another South African, Meg Mackenzie, finishing strongly...
Stunning landscapes, farming hospitality and intense competition at Ultra-trail Drakensberg
New champions were crowned, dreams fulfilled and hearts broken as the traditional ringing of the cow-bells by the 100 miler finishers signalled the close of the sixth edition of the Ultra-trail Drakensberg (UTD) at the Premier Resort Sani Pass...
Fireworks at Ultra-trail Drakensberg as top trail athletes battle for honours
Johardt van Heerden showed why he is rated South Africa’s leading trail athlete with an emphatic victory in the 21km race (DRJ21) at Ultra-trail Drakensberg yesterday while at the other end of the distance spectrum a surprised Ross Lutsch...
uKhahlambha hosts the Southern Africa’s top trail athletes at Ultra-trail Drakensberg mountain extravaganza
All trails lead to the Underberg region of the Drakensberg this weekend (28-30 April), as the country’s leading trail and mountain runners make the journey to race HQ at Premier Resort Sani Pass for the sixth edition of Ultra-trail...