Team SA Olympic bronze medallist Alan Hatherly successfully defending his title in the elite men's Cross-Country race at the 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Championship in Switzerland. Hatherly took advantage of a mistake from early leader Victor Koretzky of France  to go clear on the second of nine laps of the Crans Montana…

Sam Sanders and Marc Pritzen claimed the women’s and men’s South Africa Marathon Mountain Bike Championships at the Sappi Karkloof Trail Festival, but there was nothing similar in the way they won their respective national titles. The 41-year-old Sanders used her endurance to grind out a huge nine-minute victory over Bianca Haw and Danielle…

Like father, like son. Malcolm Lange represented Team SA at the first Olympics the country attended following 32 years of isolation and his son, Tyler, showed he has plenty of talent himself when he won the 2025 Cape Town Cycle Tour. In the women’s race, Germany's Pia Grünewald delivered a masterclass in…

Kieran Gordge battled through extremely tough conditions at the 2025 Tour du Rwanda to end as South Africa's top performer at the event, writes MARK LEMKE. The 20-year-old cyclist has now returned to his home in Stellenbosch from where he spoke about his experience in Rwanda and his plans for the remainder of 2025. …

South Africa were represented by a trio of young, up-and-coming riders at the Tour du Rwanda which concluded with a cancelled seventh and final stage due to bad weather with just over 13km left to race. Mud on the course initially caused a re-route of the stage, before it was eventually cancelled due to strong…

One of South Africa’s all-time great cyclists, Willie Engelbrecht, has died at the age of 62. He was the first cyclist to win a Commonwealth Games medal after the country's re-admission to the international arena when he took the bronze in the men’s road race at the 1994 Games in Canada. An internationally-renowned rider, he rode…

Team SA Olympic bronze medallist Alan Hatherly signed off on a special 2024 when he won the elite men’s cross-country race, at the final event of the UCI Mountain Bike World Series. Hatherly, representing Cannondale Factory Racing, was already leading the series heading into the technical Canadian race at Mont-Sainte-Anne and made no mistakes. “The…

South Africa’s Louis Meintjes finished second behind Britain’s Tom Pidcock in Thursday’s 12th stage of the Tour de France, a 165.1km Alpine trek between Briancon and L'Alpe d'Huez. Pidcock, riding for Ineos-Grenadiers, prevailed from the day's breakaway with an attack 3.3 km into the final climb, a 13.8km effort at an average gradient of 8.1…

XCO Mountain Bike world champion Nino Schurter and partner Lars Forster (SCOTT-SRAM) raced home in a sprint finish to claim the 123km Stage 2, from Lourensford Wine Estate to Elandskloof Farm Cottages, Greyton at the Absa Cape Epic.