End of the road for Team Spur
As a successful season for Team Spur draws to a close, Team Spur’s director and owner of Podium Sports, Nic Lamond announces the end of the team and reflects on three years of passion and stoke. From Left to Right: Nic Lamond, Ariane Lüthi, Alan Hatherly, JP Jacobs, Sacha du Plessis (Group Marketing Executive, Spur […]
Alan Hatherly wins U23 World Championships in Switzerland
On Friday afternoon 8 September 2018 in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, Team Spur’s Alan Hatherly executed a tactical masterclass to wrestle the U23 UCI XCO World Championship jersey onto his shoulders. Flat-out racing from the starter’s gun played into the 22-year-old South African’s hands as he put all his racing experience to the ultimate test on a […]
Watch Alan Hatherly live at the XCO World Champs today
The UCI World Championships is the biggest race for any rider – an opportunity to earn the coveted rainbow jersey and bragging rights as World Champ for a full year. Team Spur’s Alan Hatherly takes aim at the U23 World title on Friday afternoon on a natural course, littered with roots and slick wood sections, […]
Alan Hatherly claims first U23 World Cup win in Canada
On Sunday, 12 August in Mont Sainte-Anne, Canada Team Spur’s Alan Hatherly controlled an explosive race in the U23 Men’s category to win his first-ever UCI XCO World Cup. Image Courtesy of Michal Cerveny The result in Canada, on “one of the hardest tracks on the [World Cup] circuit”, according to Hatherly, is the South […]
Alan Hatherly defends Elite SA XCO jersey in Bloemfontein
Team Spur’s Alan Hatherly secured his second South African Elite Cross-country jersey in Bloemfontein on Saturday afternoon, in his final year as a U23 rider. Electing to compete in the Elite XCO category, despite being U23, Hatherly can now proudly wear the national jersey colours when he progresses to the Elite category from the start […]
Alan Hatherly claims a high-altitude top 10 in Andorra
Above 2000m you struggle to summon enough oxygen into your brain to think straight. Your muscles scream and your heart pounds. Everything is an effort. Not the ideal place to host a round of the UCI XCO World Cup – one of cycling’s most intense disciplines. But it’s the same for everyone… Image courtesy of […]
Alan Hatherly on the Podium at Nové Město World Cup
Team Spur’s Alan Hatherly was in the thick of the action throughout an enthralling five-lap fight on Saturday at the third round of the UCI U23 World Cup, hosted in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic. When the dust settled, the South African and African XCO Champion and 2018 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist, had claimed […]
Alan Hatherly survives mudfest to secure Top-10 at German World Cup
Team Spur’s Alan Hatherly lined up on Saturday afternoon in his first UCI U23 XCO World Cup of the season in Albstadt. The German course is widely regarded as the toughest race on the World Cup circuit with two major climbs and precipitous descents. In the dry, Albstadt is fast and brutal with steep gradients […]
Commonwealth Bronze for Alan Hatherly
Team Spur’s Alan Hatherly won Bronze in the Men’s Cross-country mountain bike race for Team South Africa at the Commonwealth Games in Australia earlier today, Thursday 12 April. Hatherly finished third in a time of 1:17:56 behind the New Zealand duo of Sam Gaze (1:17:36) and Anton Cooper (1:17:36). The result took Team South Africa’s […]
Commonwealth Games 2018: Alan Hatherly breaks it down
Tomorrow morning at 5.30am South African time Alan Hatherly toes the line at his inaugural Commonwealth Games. For the 22-year-old national champion it is a chance to pit himself against a tough international field. So just who and what is Alan up against? Image Credit: Craig Kolesky. Unlike the UCI XCO World Cup circuit, the […]
Alan Hatherly recovers from injury to fight it out at Commonwealth Games
Seven weeks ago young cycling prodigy Alan Hatherly had a mountain to climb. And it wasn’t one of the many scheduled training efforts his coach had prescribed. He was sitting in the dirt on the side of the trail somewhere outside Ceres, staring at two painfully crooked wrists. A victim of a high-speed crash in […]
Spur/Red-E and Spur/Valencia win the 2017 Cape Pioneer Trek
The Spur/Red-E and Spur/Valencia teams of Alan Hatherly, Matt Beers, Ariane Luthi and Amy-Beth McDougall secured the 2017 Momentum Health Cape Pioneer Trek, presented by Biogen, titles on Saturday the 21st of October in the Klein Karoo town of Oudtshoorn. Though both the men’s and women’s general classification champions were unable to win the final […]