Samantha Sanders Claims the 2025 SA Mountain Bike Champion Title
Samantha Sanders trusted herself to go long and be bold to earn the women’s South Africa Marathon Mountain Bike Championships, for her maiden national title, at the Sappi Karkloof Trail Festival on Sunday.
Samantha Sanders Grinds Through Adversity to Defend Her Attakwas Extreme Crown
Samantha Sanders overcame a major setback to claim back to-back wins of the Attakwas Extreme, defending her crown to finish the MTB race ahead of Hayley Preen and Sarah Hill outside of George in the Western Cape on Saturday
Danielle Strydom Doubles Up with Second SA Title in Two Weeks
Danielle Strydom claimed the women’s SA MTB Marathon Championship title at the 85km Sappi Karkloof Classic Trail Festival on Sunday, less than two weeks after winning the SA Gravel Champs she won at the Race to the Sun
Samantha Sanders Crowned Queen of the 2024 Attakwas Extreme
Former SA marathon champion Samantha Sanders won the 2024 Momentum Medical Scheme Attakwas Extreme from Chandelier Game Lodge to Pine Creek Resort in gruelling conditions in the Klein Karoo on Saturday
Top Names Perched to Pounce After Scorching Point Pursuit
A flying start for Team Galileo Risk’s Theresa Ralph and Sarah Hill upset pre-race favourites Samantha Sanders and Amy McDougall as the pair set the fastest elite time at the Momentum Health Cape Pioneer Trek
Rising Star Dalton Comes of Age with Triple Gold at SA Champs
Showing fortitude beyond her years, rising star Heidi Dalton scooped three titles at the SA Cycling Champs including the SA Elite Women’s Road Race gold in Wellington, Western Cape, at the weekend
Norway’s Heine Steals Win in First-Ever Queen Nandi Challenge
SA’s first-ever women’s only UCI Road race, Cycling SA’s Queen Nandi Challenge, was won by Norway’s Vita Heine ahead of among the world’s top female cyclists
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
Sanders Scoops MTB Cross-Country Title
Samantha Sanders won the elite cross-country title at the 2013 Cycling SA-MTB National Championships at Hayterdale Trails, Addo, near Port Elizabeth on Saturday, with the national downhill title to be decided on Sunday.
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
Sanders Leads MTB National Cup Champions
Samantha Sanders comfortably scoops top spot among Pro Elite racers at the 2013 SA National XCO Cup 3 at Thaba Trails, with Bianca Haw and Frankie du Toit similarly victorious in their Junior Women disciplines, while Nadia Botha cruises to downhill champs title
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