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...
AFRICANX TRAILRUN glory for debutants in a sunny finale
Underson Ngube and John April (Team Ride Along 2), Julia Jansen van Rensburg and Alexa Rack (Team Nam Power) and Stuart Marais and Kerry-Anne Marshall (Team New Balance #WeGotNow) were crowned 2023 PICKLE JUICE AFRICANX TRAILRUN champions after a...
It’s anyone’s game as seconds separate top teams in thrilling contest at AFRICANX TRAILRUN
Somerset West runners, Hakeem Smith and Lovemo Nyaude (Team HTRCrew Trail Taxi), upset the form book when they took line honours in the 34km second stage of the Pickle Juice AFRICANX TRAILRUN this morning (Saturday 18 March), while strong-running...
Ostrich-country duo fly to victory on first day of AFRICANX TRAILRUN
Outshoorn is known for its ostriches, one of the fastest creatures across the land. And feathers and dust were all that their rivals saw of Oudtshoorn-based athletes, Underson Ncube and John April (Team Ride Along 2), in the final...
Trail legends AJ and Bernie back for more AFRICANX glory
AFRICANX multiple-winner AJ Calitz is back once again with his renowned ‘trail buddy’ Bernard Rukadza to compete in the PICKLE JUICE AFRICANX TRAILRUN 3-Day Stage Race, starting tomorrow. The two legends of trail running have won the title on...
Trip of a lifetime awaits Sinovuyo
Sinovuyo Ngcobo wanted to give it all up. The kid from Mbanyana primary school in the Ndwedwe Mission outside Durban in South Africa, had found a love for many sports but a passion for running. But there didn’t seem...
Holly leaves deep tracks in Africa
Leading mountain and trail runner, Holly Page, has reached some of her sport’s highest peaks, literally and metaphorically. But for a group of young boys and girls from the ‘tougher side of the tracks’ in Hout Bay, ‘Miss Holly’...
Greek athlete in ‘Fotis’ finish at Ultra-trail Cape Town, by Zeus!
The gods on Mount Olympus are celebrating this weekend’s extraordinary performance by 40-year-old Greek ultra-distance athlete Fotis Zisimopoulos, in winning the inaugural RMB Ultra-trail Cape Town over a challenging 100-mile race around the Cape Peninsula over the weekend (25...
It’s the Robbie and Landie show in the Ultra-trail Cape Town pipe-opener
31-year-old Scottish athlete Robbie Simpson raced to an emphatic victory at the RMB Ultra-trail Cape Town Peninsula Traverse 55 km (PT55) in windy conditions this morning (Friday 24 November), while Stellenbosch athlete Landie Greyling won the women’s race following...
Showtime on Table Mountain as the world’s top trail athletes line up for the...
It’s showtime for Rand Merchant Bank Ultra-trail Cape Town (RMB UTCT) as the new-look endurance event gets underway this weekend, offering competitive international trail-racing over 100 miles (the UTCT flagship), 100km (the UT100), 55km (the Peninsula Traverse or PT55),...