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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Another successful Cape Town Cycle Tour

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City bosses are lauding yet another successful Cape Town Cycle Tour. The Mother City was showing off again this Sunday, hosting the 46th edition of the Cape Town Cycle Tour.

Another successful Cape Town Cycle Tour

Over 30 000 cyclists from the city, the country and elsewhere in the world, converged on Cape Town to participate in this, the biggest timed-cycling event on earth.
Several roads were closed to accommodate the tens of thousands of cyclists.
Another successful Cape Town Cycle Tour
Photo: Cape Town Cycle Tour website

The winners in their respective categories

 

Men’s Results 

  1. Kent Main: RKC Collective (2:31:21)
  2. Charlie Aldridge: Cannondale Factory Racing (2:31:35 | +14)
  3. Alan Hatherly: Cannondale Factory Racing (2:31:36 | +15)
  4. Jaco Venter: MadMacs (2:31:36 | +15)
  5. Luke Moir: Cube Factory Racing XC (2:31:36 | +15)

 

WATCH: The start of the race

 

Women’s Results:

 

  1. Tiffany Keep: DAS Hutchinson Brother UK (2:12:01)
  2. S’annara Grove: Doltcini O’Shea Cycling Team (ST)
  3. Vera Looser: Efficient Infiniti Insure (ST)
  4. Carla Oberholzer: Santon City Cycle Nation (ST)
  5. Jo van de Winkel: Santon City Cycle Nation (2:12:16 | + 15

 

Under 17 Boys Results:

 

1. Josh Johnson 2:05:31.120
2. Dean Woolley 2:05:31.227
3. Faraz Khatieb 2:05:31.323
4. Daniel Le Roux 2:06:06.703
5. Cullen Posthumus 2:08:11.990

 

 

To view the full results from the 2024 Cape Town Cycle Tour, please click here.

 

 

Another successful Cape Town Cycle Tour
Photo: Cape Town Cycle Tour website

Cape Town was showing off again

 

Race director David Bellairs says the Mother City was showing off again.
From the website of the Cycle Tour:

The Cycle Tour provides a glorious day out for tens of thousands of cyclists, no matter the weather.  For just one day of the year, human power rules the roads of the fairest cape in the whole circumference of the earth (Sir Francis Drake, 1579).

 

 

Cape Town Cycle Tour
Photo: YouTube Screenshot

 

 

It’s not all about riding legally on freeways, though; in the months following the Cycle Tour, millions of rand are ploughed back into the communities the 109km route crosses through the ongoing work of the event principals, the Pedal Power Association and the Rotary Club of Claremont.

 

Merentia Van Der Vent
Merentia Van Der Vent
Merentia joined the media world in 1996 and in 2001, she took her first steps in the broadcasting world. In her free time, she likes to go on adventures in the city. She also likes to learn new dances, not that she is any good at that.

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