Cycling News and Race Results

A selection of images of the 2012 Cape Argus Pick n Pay CYcle Tour. The elite men's race was won by Reinardt Janse van Rensburg with Ashleigh Moolman Pasio winning the elite women's race. Images courtesy fo Archie Barnwell.

Newly crowned South African Elite women’s road race champion, Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, claimed her first ever victory at the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour on Sunday. But it was a victory marred by the horrific finishing sprint crash that took down and injured all three of her Momentum Toyota teammates.

Team USN’s Cherise Taylor overcame an early mechanical setback that almost ended her race to sprint to a narrow win at the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour 109km race in Cape Town on Sunday.

Tyler Day, a first-year professional on the Bonitas Medscheme team, captured the biggest victory of his short career when he outsprinted a large bunch to win the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour in Cape Town on Sunday.

Team Bonitas Medscheme rider Tyler Day, captured the biggest victory of his short career when he outsprinted a large bunch to win the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour in Cape Town on Sunday in a time of two hours 32 minutes and 10 seconds.

The Argus Pro-elite Race on Sunday (13 March) might well develop into a battle for sprint ssupremacy between Arran Brown (MTN/Qhubeka) and Herman Fouché (DCM).

The Cape Argus Pick n Pay Lifecycle Expo is the biggest of its kind on the African continent and runs for three days, from Thursday 10 to Saturday 12 March.

The start of summer is also the unofficial start of the cycling season in South Africa, with thousands of cyclists training for the world’s biggest timed cycling race, the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour. The popular race attracted nearly 8000 new entrants for 2011.