Hometown heroes shine at Attakwas Extreme
Pyga Euro Steel’s Matthys Beukes has been crowned Momentum Health Attakwas Extreme presented by Biogen Champion for the second consecutive time. In the elite women’s category, 46-year old Yolande de Villiers (Team Altes Landhaus powered by Madmacs Kawasaki) stormed to victory to become the oldest winner of the country’s “toughest one-day mountain bike race.” The […]
Entries to the 2019 Attakwas Extreme Open on 19 February
Entries to next year’s Momentum Health Attakwas Extreme, presented by Biogen, which takes place on Saturday the 19th of January 2019, open at midday on Monday the 19th of February 2018. The event will be the thirteenth edition of the race dubbed the Hell of the South. Entries to the 2019 Momentum Health Attakwas Extreme, […]
Beukes and Lüthi kick-off 2018 season with Attakwas victories
PYGA Euro Steel’s Matthys Beukes broke the South African drought while Ariane Lüthi added a historic sixth Momentum Health Attakwas Extreme, presented by Biogen, to her palmarès on a wet Saturday, the 20th of January 2018. The elite men’s podium was filled by Tim Bohme and Philip Buys, and Lüthi was joined on the women’s […]
Largest ever field to take on 2018 Attakwas Extreme
The 2018 Momentum Health Attakwas Extreme, presented by Biogen, boasts the event’s largest ever start list – with 1 400 intrepid riders signed up to take on the Hell of the South on the 20th of January. 11 of those riders have completed 10 or more traverses of the Attakwaskloof, while 511 individuals are signed […]
Elite riders fired up for the Momentum Health Attakwas Extreme
The 2018 mountain biking season gets underway in a few short days, on the 20th of January, at the traditional season opener: the Momentum Health Attakwas Extreme, presented by Biogen. The one hundred and twenty one kilometre ultra-marathon – from Chandelier, near Oudtshoorn, to Pine Creek, in Great Brak River – has once again attracted […]
Festive Training the Key to Attakwas Extreme Success
As South Africa gears down for the annual summer holidays the country’s mountain bikers ramp up their training ahead of the infamously tough Momentum Health Attakwas Extreme, presented by Biogen. Taking place on Saturday the 20th of January 2018 the Attakwas Extreme is the traditional season opener and is bound to test the legs of […]
Video: Fairview Attakwas Extreme MTB Challenge 2017 highlights
Find out what went down at the 2017 Fairview Attakwas Extreme MTB Challenge; where Christoph Sauser made a spectacular chase to reel in and overtake Karl Platt and Kristian Hynek to take the title, while Annika Langvad led virtually from line to line to break the women’s course record.
Sauser delivers incredible comeback to win Attakwas
Swiss mountain bike racing legend, Christoph Sauser didn’t only mark his return from retirement at the Fairview Attakwas Extreme MTB Challenge in South Africa on Saturday, he won the gruelling 121km race after the most incredible comeback following a mechanical delay early on. The men’s lead pack negotiates the dry Karoo roads during the early […]
Langvad smashes Attakwas record on debut
Denmark’s multiple mountain bike world champion, Annika Langvad (Specialized) beat off a strong field to win the Fairview Attakwas Extreme MTB Challenge in a new women’s record time in South Africa on Saturday. Annika Langvad (right) and Robyn de Groot lead the women’s front pack during the early stages of the Fairview Attakwas Extreme MTB […]
Sauser and Platt set to revive fierce rivalry at Attakwas
After a short hiatus, two of global mountain biking’s most successful competitors will revive their rivalry at the Fairview Attakwas Extreme MTB Challenge in South Africa on Saturday. Germany’s Karl Platt (Team Bulls) and Switzerland’s Christoph Sauser (Investec-Songo-Specialized) top the high-profile start list for South Africa’s premier one-day race, which covers a distance of 121km […]
Star Studded Line-Up Assemble for the 2017 Fairview Attakwas Extreme MTB Challenge
South Africa’s traditional season opener, the Fairview Attakwas Extreme MTB Challenge, takes place on Saturday the 21st of January. Along with a stellar field of local challengers, a number of European mountain biking stars are set to line-up for the 2017 edition. Defending champion Karl Platt (left) raced to victory by riding with teammate Tim […]
In the Spirit of the Attakwas
As the 21st of January 2017, and the Fairview Attakwas Extreme MTB Challenge, looms nearer the effectiveness of the long months of summer training are about to be put to the test. The question on every one of the one thousand mountain bikers’, taking on the one hundred and twenty one kilometre race from the […]