Video: Willie Smit interviews Louis Meintjes
Katusha Alpecin’s Willie Smit questions Louis Meintjes at a coffee stop during the pair’s training ride.
Louis Meintjes withdraws from Tour of California
Louis Meintjes has been forced to withdraw from the Amgen Tour of California after sustaining a wrist fracture in a crash in the finale of the stage four finish in Morro Bay. The incident happened with just over 3km remaining, and saw a number of key general classification riders affected including race leader Tejay van […]
Louis Meintjes: A Time to be Thankful
Cycling has given me so many opportunities. I’m grateful for the amount of travel we get to do. Before I started cycling, Cape Town was the furthest I’d been. I was 17 when I got to go overseas for the first time. I raced in Holland as a junior. When I arrived, everything was just […]
Meintjes withdraws from the Giro d’Italia
Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka rider Louis Meintjes has been forced to withdraw from the Giro d’Italia due to illness. The 26-year-old, riding the event for the first time, had been inside the top-50 on the General Classification after stage 16 but had been struggling with flu-like symptoms in recent days. He took the decision […]
Louis Meintjes returns to Team Dimension Data
Ryder Cycling today announced that South African cyclist, Louis Meintjes will return to Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka in 2018. Meintjes (25), placed eighth in the General Classification at the 2016 and 2017 Tour de France. Meintjes signing further accelerates Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka’s ambition to take African cycling to the highest level. Founded […]
Highlights: Aru takes yellow on brutal climb, Bardet wins the day
Romain Bardet took the honours on Stage 12 of the Tour de France while Fabio Aru claimed the yellow jersey after Chris Froome struggled in the last hundred metres of the summit finish. South African Louis Meintjes put in a big effort to finish 5th, seeing him enter the top 10 in the general classification […]
SA’s road cyclists show quality and class during Rio’s opening days
Team South Africa’s four road cyclists have showed their quality, class and professionalism in the opening days of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 August. Team Manager Douglas Ryder was full of praise for Louis Meintjes, Daryl Impey, Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio and An-Li Kachelhoffer after competing as […]
Meintjes on a Tour high
Louis Meintjes made South African cycling history when he became the highest South African finisher in the General Classification (GC) at this year’s Tour de France. The Lampre Merida rider finished the gruelling 21-day Tour in eighth place on the GC and was the second highest finisher in the Young Rider’s (White Jersey) Classification. The […]
Three South African riders to compete in 2016 Le Tour de France
Cycling South Africa is very proud to share in the announcements from the professional peloton that South African riders Daryl Impey (Orica-BikeExchange), Louis Meintjes (Lampre Merida) and Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka) will be taking part in the 103rd edition of Le Tour de France, which kicks off with a 188-kilometre […]
Impey, Meintjes named in initial squad for Rio Olympics
Cycling South Africa has great pleasure in announcing that Daryl Impey and Louis Meintjes have been selected for Team South Africa to compete in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August. South Africa’s Olympic governing body, SASCOC (South African Sport Confederation and Olympic Committee) announced the first names of the initial […]
Meintjes and Janse van Rensburg on the hunt for National Title
With just over two weeks away, excitement is building in KwaZulu-Natal as the province prepares to host the 2016 SA National Road, Time Trial and Para-cycling Championships from 10-14 February, with some of the biggest names in national cycling – like Jacques Janse van Rensburg and Louis Meintjes – anticipating South Africa’s blue ribbon event. […]
First entries see big names ahead of 2016 SA Road Champs
The 2016 SA National Road, Time Trial and Para-cycling Championships, which is expecting to see some of the country’s biggest names in cycling on the start line, is just less than a month away, and brings with it two exciting competition venues on offer in sunny KwaZulu-Natal from 10-14 February. The four-day 2016 competition will […]