Four! Here comes the new dormakaba SA team
Two of South Africa’s most gifted mountain bikers, Carmen Buchacher and Samantha Sanders, will in 2018 ride in the Team dormakaba SA jersey. They will join the current squad members, Nico Pfitzenmaier and Candice Lill, to form a formidable dormakaba team. Team dormakaba SA (left to right): Candice Lill, Samantha Sanders, Carmen Buchacher, and Nico […]
Lill, Sanders deliver exciting Dullstroom duel
Team dormakaba’s Candice Lill continued her good race form when she won a stage and the overall title at Round 6 of the Ashburton Investments National MTB Series at Dullstroom, Mpumalanga at the weekend. Samantha Sanders (Valencia) sets a hard pace for the elite women during stage 2 of the Ashburton Investments National MTB Series […]
Knox, Sanders triumph at battle of Ballito
Max Knox and Samantha Sanders were the respective winners of the men and women’s elite titles at Round 5 of the Ashburton Investments National MTB Series, held at Sugar Rush, Ballito at the weekend. But their wins were in stark contrast, with Knox winning a tight tussle and Sanders cruising to a comfortable victory. Knox […]
Bell, Sanders convincing winners at Trailseeker Hazeldean
Mpumalanga-based mountain bikers, Nico Bell and Samantha Sanders, raced to convincing wins in the men and women’s categories respectively at the Nissan TrailSeeker Hazeldean Marathon outside Pretoria at the weekend. 3200 riders participated over four distance options at the event, which was Round 2 of the 2016 Nissan TrailSeeker Gauteng Series, the most popular marathon […]
Hill and Louw secure second Zuurberg title
Andrew Hill and Adriaan Louw were able to play it safe on the final day en route to securing the overall title at the PwC Great Zuurberg Trek mountain bike race at Addo, near Port Elizabeth, on Sunday. Adriaan Louw leads TIB Insurance-Contego team-mate Andrew Hill on the third and final stage of the 2016 […]
Sanders and Ralph seek elusive KAP sani2c podium
Having had a one day to forget over the 2015 KAP sani2c, elite women’s pair of Samantha Sanders and Theresa Ralph have re-aligned their focus to the 2016 edition of the Race event hoping to break onto that elusive podium when it gets underway on 12 May at Glencairn Farm. Following their disappointing first day […]
Bronze for newcomer Sanders in Morocco
Samantha Sanders (33) claimed a bronze medal in the Individual Time Trial at the 2016 CAC (African Cycling Confederation) Road Cycling Championships in Benslimane, Morocco, on Tuesday 23 February. The relative newcomer to the road cycling discipline knew that the race would be decided at the turnaround point on the 31km out-and-back route, which is […]
National road team announced for African Continental Championships
Cycling South Africa is proud to announce the Elite Women’s National Road Cycling Team that will participate in the 2016 CAC (African Cycling Confederation) Road Cycling Championships, taking place in Morocco, from 22 to 26 February. Cycling SA is sending a women’s team only as the Continental Championships is extremely important for them to bolster […]
Sanders aiming for debut dusi2c triumph
The 2015 mixed category at the upcoming BSi Steel dusi2c is going to be an interesting tussle as fourth place finisher at the recent Nedbank sani2c Samantha Sanders has teamed up with 2014 dusi2c mixed winner Eugene Botha for the 2015 edition of the two-day race from Camps Drift in Pietermaritzburg to Blue Lagoon in […]
Du Toit, Sanders and Odendaal tops at third XCO and DHI Nationals, MPU
Arno du Toit (Heart-Sports ASG), Samantha Sanders (Valencia) and Tiaan Odendaal (Green Team) walked away with top points in the Elite cross-country and downhill categories at the third round of the 2014 Southern African Mountain Bike Cup Series, which took place at Mankele Mountain Bike Park near Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, at the weekend. The small field […]
Acknowledging our women cyclists this August: Samantha Sanders
Samantha Sanders started cycling in 2006, while studying at TUKS in Pretoria. Having raced moto-x and enduro as a young girl and throughout high school, Samantha can positively claim that racing on two wheels is in her blood. Samantha Sanders Vital Stats Date of birth: 21-08-1983 Hometown: Hoedspruit,Mpumalanga Currently lives:Hoedspruit Team: Valencia She started cycling […]