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The Cape Town Cycle Tour, [1] formerly known as the Cape Argus Cycle Tour, is an annual cycle race hosted in Cape Town, South Africa, usually 109 km (68 mi) long. It is the first event outside Europe to be included in the Union Cycliste Internationale 's Golden Bike Series . [ 2 ]
The 2003 Tour d'Afrique set a Guinness World Record for fastest crossing of Africa by bicycle and this was achieved by nine participants of the race, Michael Kennedy, Chris Evans, Dave Genders (all from the United Kingdom), Paul Reynaert , Jeremy Wex, Steve Topham, Scotty Robinson, Andrew Griffin (all from Canada) and Sascha Hartl . [3]
South Africa Calvin Beneke Shaun-Nick Bester Johannes Christoffel Nel Ryan Gibbons: 2015 Eritrea Natnael Berhane Mekseb Debesay Merhawi Kudus Daniel Teklehaimanot South Africa Nicholas Dlamini Reinardt Janse van Rensburg Louis Meintjes Jay Thomson Ethiopia Getachew Atsbha Temesgen Buru Kibrom Giday Tsgabu Grmay: 2016 Eritrea Elias Afewerki ...
The South African National Road Race Championship is a road bicycle race that takes place inside the South African National Cycling Championship, and decides the best cyclist in this type of race. The first race winner of the road race championship was Malcolm Lange in 1995; Malcolm Lange is the only cyclist to have won the championships three ...
A map showing South Africa's cities, main towns, selected villages, rivers, and its highest peak. This is a list of rivers in South Africa. It is quite common to find the Afrikaans word -rivier as part of the name. Another common suffix is "-kamma", from the Khoisan term for "river" [1] (often tautologically the English term "river" is added to ...
The racing complex also has a drag racing strip and a go-kart track. Additionally, turn 9 can be turned into a proper chicane for the purposes of motorcycle races. For the World RX of South Africa, the northwestern portion of the circuit was used, with an extra dirt road added to its infield.
The Cape Epic name and logo are finalised in London + Munich: The knobbly tyres of the cyclist show that it is an off-road mountain bike race. The zebra stripes represented untamed Africa. The colours of the South Africa flag denote that it will be a truly South African race. 2003: The first marketing opportunity for the Cape Epic was a roaring ...
The first South African Grand Prix was held in 1983 as the season opener at the Kyalami circuit in Midrand. [1] The circuit lay more than 1700 metres above sea level and the high altitude caused problems for the riders to set up their bikes. The race was held on a Saturday, similar to the Dutch TT. [2]