{"id":19049,"date":"2015-11-10T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/11\/10\/sa-national-championship-dates-for-2016-r3785\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T09:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T09:04:48","slug":"sa-national-championship-dates-for-2016-r3785","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/sa-national-championship-dates-for-2016-r3785\/","title":{"rendered":"SA National Championship dates for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cycling South Africa confirms the calendar dates and provinces that will be hosting the South African National Championship events for 2016. In addition, the National Federation will also be hosting some first-class events that will take place in Pietermaritzburg.<\/p>\n

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Cycling SA\u2019s National Championship events dates and venues are finalised, these being the SA National Road and Para-cycling Championships in Durban<\/a> (February), SA Track and Para-cycling Championships<\/a> in Port Elizabeth (March), SA MTB Marathon Championships<\/a> (Elite, Junior, Youth) in Clarens (April), SA MTB Masters Marathon Championships<\/a> in Pietermaritzburg (May), SA MTB XCO and DHI Championships<\/a> in Pietermaritzburg (July) and the SA BMX National Championships<\/a> at Giba Gorge (October).<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-52845200-1447179109.jpg\"<\/a>The 2016 SA National BMX Championships will take place at Giba Gorge in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday 2 October. Photo credit: Darren Goddard\/pics2go.co.za.<\/span><\/p>\n

Major events that will be staged in and around Pietermaritzburg as part of the broader \u201cAfrica Bike City\u201d project include the PMB MTB Festival<\/a>, which will include UCI HC rating XCO races for Elite and Junior Men and Women as well as the KZN Development Series, Spur Schools Series, an Enduro race and the SA MTB Masters Marathon Championships (May); 2016 Para-cycling Road World Cup Pietermaritzburg (May); KZN Autumn Masters Tour, a four-day cycle tour for Masters aged 30-and-above (August); and the KZN Autumn Men\u2019s Pro Challenge, a UCI 1.2 road race for Men only (August).<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-64727000-1447179119.jpg\"<\/a>The 2016 SA National MTB Championships (XCO & DHI) will take place at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, from 16-17 July. Photo credit: Craig Dutton\/pics2go.co.za.<\/span><\/p>\n

There will be five mountain bike XCO races this year as part of the SA MTB Cup Series<\/a> of which four will feature a UCI category 1 rating for the Elite Men and Elite Women categories. Juniors will also be able to earn UCI points in the XCO rounds as part of UCI Junior World Series. With the Junior categories taken out of the UCI MTB World Cups, Juniors will again participate in their own world series to garner valuable UCI points. The fifth XCO race will carry a UCI Cat 2 rating.<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-36134400-1447179128.jpg\"<\/a>The 2016 SA National Road and Para-cycling Championships will take place in KwaZulu-Natal, with the Time Trial competitions being staged on 10 and 11 February in the Wartburg\/Noodsburg\/Harburg area and the Road Races all happening in Westville on 13 and 14 February. Photo credit: Craig Dutton\/pics2go.co.za.<\/span><\/p>\n

Downhill events will not be run with the SA MTB Cup Series in 2016. Western Province and KwaZulu-Natal will use two of their provincials to double as a SA Cup event; these events are dated as 28 February and 29 May (Western Cape) and 27 March and 22 May (KZN). The results from these will be used for Selection and towards a SA Cup Series. The downhill discipline will be included in the SA MTB Champs.<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-86918200-1447179137.jpg\"<\/a>The 2016 SA National BMX Championships will take place at Giba Gorge in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday 2 October. Photo credit: Darren Goddard\/pics2go.co.za.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ashburton Investments National MTB Series (Clarens) will be held on 16-17 April and will host the SA National MTB Marathon Championships for the Elite Men (Ultra Marathon Distance) Elite Women (Marathon Distance) Junior and Youth Men and Women (Half Marathon Distance).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cycling South Africa confirms the calendar dates and provinces that will be hosting the South African National Championship events for 2016. In addition, the National Federation will also be hosting some first-class events that will take place in Pietermaritzburg. Cycling SA\u2019s National Championship events dates and venues are finalised, these being the SA National Road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[231,1110,3352],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-19049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-cycling-south-africa","tag-national-champs","tag-sa-national-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19049"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=19049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}