Team dormakaba cyclist Robyn de Groot is wrapping up her preparations in Turkey for this weekend’s 2020 UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships taking place in Sakarya, her first international race since the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa. “My coach has been fantastic during the lockdown facilitating creative ideas and […]
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Team announcement for MTB Marathon World Champs – Laissac (FRA)
11 May 2016 – Cycling South Africa’s Mountain Bike Commission has great pleasure in announcing that the following rider has been selected to represent South Africa at the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships in Laissac, France, on 25-26 June. Robyn de Groot has been selected in line with […]
Langvad untouchable in Marathon World Champs
Pietermaritzburg – Denmark’s Annika Langvad wrapped up a hat-trick of women’s world titles at the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday entrenching her status as one of the best female endurance mountain bikers in the world. The result was especially pleasing for the Dane who came […]
Men shine at muddy Rainbow Challenge
Pietermaritzburg – Saturday’s Rainbow Challenge got the weekend’s UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships action underway at Cascades MTB Park as a large contingent of South Africans were joined by a score of foreigners for the slippery and muddy affair. Staged on a similar route to that which the globe’s […]
National title adds to Reid’s Marathon Worlds confusion
Pietermaritzburg – Freshly re-crowned national marathon champion, James Reid is faced with a tough conundrum of decisions ahead of the 2014 UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships which take place in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday 29 June. Despite the under-23 cross-country star making no secret of his preference for the Olympic […]