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 […]
Commonwealth Games 2018 cyclists announced for Team SA
SASCOC (South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee) has announced the 169-member team that will be competing in the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia in April. Team South Africa sees representation across 16 sporting codes, with 18 team members representing cycling. Road: Women — Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (TT)Men — Willie Smit, Nicholas Dlamini, Clint […]
MTB Selection Criteria update for 2018 CWG Gold Coast
The 2018 Commonwealth Games (CWG) will be held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia between 4 and 15 April 2018. For Mountain Biking, only the Olympic Cross-country (XCO) discipline will be contested. Cycling South Africa Mountain Bike Commission’s existing performance criteria already addresses most aspects of qualification for Games, but the updated Selection Policy (Version […]
Moolman-Pasio makes South Africa proud
In an epic display of guts and determination, South Africa’s Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (28) claimed a Commonwealth Games bronze medal by mere millimetres in the women’s road race in Glasgow, Scotland, on Sunday 3 August. Photo credit: Brett Coates The 98km route was broken down into 7 laps of the 14km loop on an extremely tight […]
Track cycling squad and feeder team in the pipeline for Commonwealth Games
Cycling South Africa’s Track Cycling Commission has selected a track cycling squad as per the selection criteria for the 2014 Commonwealth Games that will be held in Glasgow, Scotland from 23 July to 3 August 2014. The following cyclists have qualified in the Men’s Team Sprint discipline: Bernard Esterhuizen Jeanne Nell Jean Smith The following […]