Weary De Groot Wins SA MTB Marathon Again
SA’s defending MTB marathon champ Robyn de Groot outclassed a strong field to win the right to wear the champion’s jersey for another year in PMB on Sunday
De Groot Targets MTB Marathon World Champs
A top-20 finish in last year’s UCI MTB Marathon World Champs has encouraged SA national champ Robin de Groot to target the 2014 edition on home soil at the Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg later in June
De Groot Claims Debut SA MTB Champs Title
Road cycling London 2012 Olympian Robyn de Groot beat off co-Olympian Candice Neethling and Samantha Sanders to claim her first SA MTB Champs title at Induna Adventures in Hazyview, Mpumalanga, on Saturday
Team Stopforth de Groot Win sani2c Stage Race
Biogen Ladies’ Ischen Stopforth and Robyn de Groot held onto their overnight lead to claim overall victory in the three-day Nedbank sani2c mountain bike race in Scottburgh on Saturday
De Groot Bounces Back at Amashova
Robyn de Groot has put this year’s Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour behind her with an impressive victory at the Durban Amashova Classic. Former South African road champion, Marissa Stander finished 2nd, just ahead of SA champion, Ashleigh Moolman Pasio.
Stander Wins Route de France Stage 1
Champion SA cyclist Cherise Stander (nee Taylor) became the first South African woman to win a 2.1-graded UCI tour stage, on day 1 of the 2012 Route de France, the women’s equivalent of the Tour de France.
London 2012 Wrap Saturday 28 July
The wrap on SA women in action at the London 2012 Olympic Games, on Saturday, 28 July, plus the schedule for Sunday 29 July
Team SA for London 2012 Olympics Announced
More than 50 women athletes make the cut in SASCOC’s initial London 2012 Team SA announcement
Robyn Wins Free State Classic
Robyn de Groot claimed the Free State’s biggest road cycling race when she won the women’s title at the MTN OFM Classic on Sunday, but it was Jennie Stenerhag who left Bloemfontein with the green jersey on her back as leader of the 2009 Alpha Pharm Seeding Series. In the women’s race, the ongoing duel […]
Taylor’s Dream Victory
MTN teenage cyclist Cherise Taylor is the 2008 Cycle Tour Champ. Eighteen-year-old Cherise Taylor achieved one of her lifetime goals on Sunday when she edged out the country’s top women in a frantic bunch sprint to capture the coveted Cape Argus Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour title.
Pedal to the Wheel in New Zealand
Cherise Taylor, Yolandi du Toit, Robyn de Groot, Lynette Burger and Marissa van der Merwe are the five cyclists representing South Africa at the Women’s Tour of New Zealand, starting today and ending on Sunday, and have already made an impact on the event.
Cyclists Compete for Top Honours
Cherise Taylor, the current Junior World Championship silver medalist, headlines a strong South African team which will compete at the Tour of New Zealand this week. South African Women cyclists will be competing against the best cyclists in the world at the Tour of New Zealand, starting on Wednesday in a five-rider national team competition, […]