Cycling News and Race Results

When Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (Momentum-Toyota) finished fifth in the Fleche Wallonne Femme (123km) in Belgium on Wednesday 18 April, it might well have been the best result ever by a South African women's cyclist in a World Cup race.

Heidi Dalton (Toyota CSA Junior women's team) won the Trac N4 National Junior Women's Cycle Tour in the Lowveld during the weekend (March 31 to April 1) for the second consecutive year.

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.

Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, the South African female road cyclist that’s been on a steep upward curve for the past year, claimed the gold medal in the Elite women’s race at the 2012 South African Road Championships in Nelspruit in the Mpumalanga province on Saturday.

Robyn de Groot got the year off to triumphant start for her Momentum Toyota team when she sprinted to victory from a small breakaway group to win The New Fast One 106km road cycling race on Sunday.