CYCLING
The Bruintjieshoogte Cycle Fest took place in Somerset East over the past weekend, with a number of mountain and road bike events being organised.
CYCLING
The Bruintjieshoogte Cycle Fest took place in Somerset East over the past weekend, with a number of mountain and road bike events being organised.
A number of locals took part in the various races. Johan Conradie and Dave Hanton, who completed the Spec-Savers Ironman 70.3 South Africa a week earlier, took part in the 160km road race. They finished
together in 5 hours 24 minutes 39 seconds.
In the 25km mountain bike event, Graeme College pupil, Jason Meaton, was the overall winner in a time of 54:45. Grahamstown cyclists’ results:
25km mountain bike
1. Jason Meaton 54:45, 41. Neil Grobler 1:44:20. The women’s
winner was Michelle Reid in 1:09:49. There were 48 finishers.
60km mountain bike
16. Peter Britz 3:21:51, 19. Colin Meyer 3:26:58. Overall winner
was Jason Reed in 2:26:01 and women’s winner was Gail Willimott
in 3:03:33. There were 71 finishers.
160km road race
11. Johan Conradie 5:24:39, 11. Dave Hanton 5:24:39. Overall
winner was Divan Rall in 4:34:27. There were 24 finishers.
100km road
33. Colin Meyer 3:20:02, 64. Trevor Amos 3:47:52, 83. Karen
Meyer 4:14:49, 97. Len van der Merwe 5:05:29. Overall winner
was Francois Geldenhuys in 2:44:21 and women’s winner was
Allison Hertel in 2:55:52. There were 99 finishers.
50km road
37. Andre Wille 2:12:21, 38. Taryn-Maie Wille 2:12:21, 73. Neil
Grobler 2:47:37, 82. Nicole Craig 3:41:52. Overall winner was
Kellan Gouveris in 1:31:29 and woman’s winner was Monique
Gerber in 1:39:13. There were 82 finishers.
ROAD RUNNING
The second Run/Walk For Life Athletics Club time trial saw
38 athletes taking part in the 4km run. A number of Graeme
College rugby players took part, as well as pupils from the St
Andrew’s cross country team and athletes from Run/Walk For
Life and other running clubs. The time trial takes place every
Thursday at 5.30pm from the Graeme College Junior Fields in
Bath Street.
Desmond Witbooi 14.44, Basie Bonaparte 14.49, Terri-Lynn
Penney F 16.02, Frith van der Merwe F 16.40, Welcome Jela
16.56, Richard Alexander 17.05, Baphiwe Nqandi 17.15, Stephen
Penney 17.22, Elandre Sias 17.52, Matthew Archer 17.55, Bruce
Blaine 18.47, Reveno Moodley 19.57, Juandre Nel 19.58, Jurgan
Stroebel 20.18, Quinton Muller 20.39, Luke Sharneck 20.45, Andrew
Goodin 20.46, Lazola Ndubela 21.06, Alwethu Hans 21.11,
Alex Banfield 21.11, Aviwe Mafyumza 21.50, Wikus Coetzee 22.07,
Kyle Matthews 22.07, Jonno Nunn 22.13, Aubrey Mpongoma
22.43, Francois Nel 22.48, Anthony du Preez 23.33, Angus Roberts
23.51, Chad Banfield 23.56, Gwenda Thomas 25.13, Daluxolo
January 25.22, Tyrone Rankin 25.23, Carl Oerson 25.26, Xhanti
Zwelendaya 26.20, Jad Bowls 26.40, Taiga Haywood 26.43, Amy
Taylor 29.44, Athi Waka 31.11.
