Cycling News and Race Results

The racing division of Cycle Lab Toyota, South Africa’s largest cycling club, secured three gold and one silver medal on the first day of the 2012 South African Road Race Championships in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga on Thursday.

Nelspruit was abuzz with South Africa’s top road cyclists today for the opening race of the Mpumalanga Sport Council 2012 SA National Road Cycling and Time Trial Championships.

The 24th Ride for Sight took place on Sunday, 12th February 2012. Almost 5700 cyclists took to the roads of Boksburg to raise money in the fight against retinal blindness. The Elite and Under 23, 116km main event was won by Arran Brown of MTN Qhubeka in a scintillating time of 02:30.

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.

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.

Cherise Taylor (USN) and Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (Nashua-Toyota) are set to be the two main protagonists in the Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge women’s race on Sunday.

Simply outnumbered in Eritrea, Team South Africa still topped the medals table at the African Continental road cycling championships in Asmara that ended on Sunday.

Cherise Taylor completed a rare double when she added the African individual time trial title to her 2011 South African individual time trial title in Asmara, Eritrea on Friday.

Cherise Taylor (Team USN) continued to show her versatility when she won the Cansa Lost City Mountain Bike Challenge on Sunday, just a day after claiming the title in Saturday’s road race at the same event.

She didn’t cross the finish line first, but Cherise Taylor (Team USN) was declared the winner of the 2011 Powerade CANSA Lost City Cycle Classic following a dramatic finale at the Sun City Resort near Rustenburg on Saturday.