Cycling News and Race Results

Ashleigh Moolman Pasio’s victory in the women’s race at the Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge on Sunday was just reward for Team Nashua Toyota’s investment in South African female road cycling talent over the past year.

The composition of the nine-member national team to compete at the 2011 road cycling World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark next month shows that the focus placed on Elite women and Under-23 men over the past two years is paying dividends.

There are no South Africans competing in the 2011 Tour de France. But there are four competing in the 2011 Giro Donne, the most prestigious stage race in professional women’s road cycling, which starts in Rome on Friday.

Instead of easing into the new year with some traditional base training sessions, the Nashua Toyota professional women’s cycling team have been racing furiously and have already racked up a total of 11 victories in 2011!

 

Joanna van de Winkel led her Biogen Toyota team to podium dominance when she won the inaugural Clover Lowveld Cycle Tour in Graskop, Mpumalanga on Sunday.

Team Biogen Toyota reduced to two riders for the weekend set about the difficult task of contesting two races in one weekend – The Sun City Cycle Challenge on the Saturday and the Engen Dynamic Cycle Race on the Sunday.

In the "Rolls Royce" category Paul Furbank showed just why he was wearing the sprinter's green jersey when he showed the rest of the field a clean pair of heels down the Midvaal Raceway finish straight!