Sunday, April 20, 2025

Trail Running

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),...

It’s TERREX time at Ultra-trail Cape Town – and they mean business

With Africa’s most prestigious trail race, Ultra-trail Cape Town (UTCT), less than a week away, a closely-knit group of talented trail athletes with a global reach have made their presence felt in South Africa’s ‘Mother City’ in recent weeks. The decision...

Simon stars in Southern Drakensberg at the K-Way Skyrun

By Kelly Burke and Stephen Granger Despite a slippery, overgrown course from heavy rainfalls in the area, Simon Tshabalala, showed once again why he is one of the leading mountain runners in South Africa, by taking the 100km 2022 K-Way...

Ugandan and Kenyan athletes plunder medals at the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships...

Ugandan athletes reigned supreme in the mountain running ‘Up and Down’ race on the final day (Sunday 6 November) of the World Trail and Mountain Running Championships at the Thailand resort of Chiang Mai, taking top honours in both...

Golden trails lead to Madeira for season climax

It’s showtime for trail running as the world’s top marathon-distance trail athletes fly into Funchal, the capital of the Portuguese Island of Madeira, to take part in this week’s Golden Trail Series Grand Final at the Madeira Ocean&Trails® Stage...

Kane Reilly races to record-breaking win at Cape Town Trail Marathon

Kane Reilly turned the tables on long-time rival, Johardt van Heerden, racing to a record-breaking victory at the Cape Town Trail Marathon by Ryan Sandes, while Landie Greyling took the women’s title after a race-long battle with close rival...