{"id":20796,"date":"2014-10-23T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2014\/10\/23\/action-packed-racing-entertainment-for-bmx-national-and-continental-champ-r1747\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T11:49:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:49:26","slug":"action-packed-racing-entertainment-for-bmx-national-and-continental-champ-r1747","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/action-packed-racing-entertainment-for-bmx-national-and-continental-champ-r1747\/","title":{"rendered":"Action packed racing entertainment for BMX National and Continental Champ"},"content":{"rendered":"

The valley of Giba Gorge will come alive to the screams and cheers of South African BMX racing supporters and fans when SA, and Africa\u2019s, top athletes compete for top honours in two separate championship events on 25 and 26 October 2014.<\/p>\n

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Kyle Dodd will be defending his National Elite title 2014 SA BMX National Championships on Saturday 25 October, and the 2014 UCI African BMX Continental Championships on Sunday. 26 October. \/\/ Photo credit: craigdutton.com<\/span><\/p>\n

The high-status 2014 SA BMX National Championships takes place on Saturday, followed by the 2014 UCI African BMX Continental Championships on Sunday. Both of these top-class events will take place on South Africa\u2019s first purpose-built BMX Supercross track.<\/p>\n

Competitors will have access to the Supercross track for official gate starts from 14:00-16:00 on Friday 24 October.<\/p>\n

OFFICIAL GATE STARTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bike Scrutineering during official practice<\/p>\n

14:00-14:20 13 Years and under<\/p>\n

14:20-14:40 14 Years and over + Cruiser<\/p>\n

14:40-15:00 ELITE<\/p>\n

15:00-15:20 13 Years and under<\/p>\n

15:20-15:40 14 Years and over + Cruiser<\/p>\n

15:40-16:00 ELITE<\/p>\n

TRACK CLOSED<\/p>\n

Non South African riders will have a gate practice session from 08:00-09:30 on Saturday 25 October. The 2014 SA BMX National Championships begins at 12:00, with prize giving wrapping up proceedings at 16:00<\/p>\n

GATE PRACTICE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bike Scrutineering during official practice<\/p>\n

09:30-09:50 13 years and under<\/p>\n

09:50-10:10 14 & over + Cruiser<\/p>\n

10:10-10:30 ELITE<\/p>\n

10:30-10:45 OFFICIAL\u2019S MEETING<\/p>\n

11:00 RIDERS BRIEFING & Strider Play Time<\/p>\n

11:20 Team Ride By<\/p>\n

11:30 Final Track Preparation<\/p>\n

11:55 National Anthem<\/p>\n

12:00 RACING STARTS with Striders<\/p>\n

14:00-15:00 LUNCH and Strider Finals<\/p>\n

15:00 FINALS<\/p>\n

15:40 KZN Development Racing<\/p>\n

16:00 Prizegiving<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s African Championship racing begins at 09:00, with the Finals\/Mains set to take place at 13:00. Prize giving is scheduled for 14:00.<\/p>\n

GATE PRACTICE<\/strong><\/p>\n

07:45-08:00 13 years and under<\/p>\n

08:00-08:15 14 & over + Cruiser<\/p>\n

08:15-08:30 ELITE<\/p>\n

08:30-08:45 Officials Meeting<\/p>\n

08:45-09:00 Final Track Preparation<\/p>\n

09:00 START RACING<\/p>\n

12:00-13:00 LUNCH<\/p>\n

13:00 Finals\/Mains<\/p>\n

14:00 Prize Giving After Racing<\/p>\n

Saturday and Sunday\u2019s race events will be streamed live on streamit360.tv<\/a>, so don\u2019t miss out on the action!<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to view\/download the full timetable of events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The valley of Giba Gorge will come alive to the screams and cheers of South African BMX racing supporters and fans when SA, and Africa\u2019s, top athletes compete for top honours in two separate championship events on 25 and 26 October 2014. Kyle Dodd will be defending his National Elite title 2014 SA BMX National […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4664,4663,231],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-20796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-bmx-continental-champs","tag-bmx-national-champs","tag-cycling-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20796","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=20796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20796"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=20796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}