K-Way SkyRun 100km underway
Lucky Miya - twice winner of Skyrun. Photo: Stephen Granger
One of South Africa’s oldest and wildest trail challenges got underway today (November 14) as two hundred and fifty participants started out on the 24th edition of the SkyRun 100km,...
A Winelands marathon goes virtual
The Winelands Marathon has been one of South Africa’s most popular road marathons since its launch in the 1970s but, as is the case for many road events in 2020, has been forced to bow to COVID pressure and...
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...
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...
“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,...
Golden Trail Championship Stage 3 – no technical ascent due to weather conditions; faster...
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Golden Trail Championship Stage 3 - no technical ascent due to weather conditions; faster track favours leaders
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Mount Pico beckoned briefly but the technical ascent was not to...
Spaniard Pere Aurell wins Otter Africa “RETTO”
Pere Aurell is the new 2020 OTTER men's champion, while South Africa's Toni McCann took the women's honours.
From the race organisers:
"Visiting South Africa for the first time from Spain, Pere started conservatively, aware that the first half was fast...
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...
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...
Otter African brings local flavour to 2020 trail racing
The Otter African Trail Run is one of the few major trail races not cancelled this year and the cream of the crop of South Africa's trail athletes are chomping at the bit to get their competitive juices flowing...