The northern route up Swartberg Pass from Prince Albert, where Stage 4 of the Garden Route Giro started, is steeper in places than the southern side. Regardless of the gradient or the distance, Cronje Beukes and Mariëlle Trouwborst were once again the strongest climbers in the race. The story of their stage victories on Thursday, [...]
Cloaked in clouds and doused in drizzle, the Swartberg Pass proved pivotal on Stage 3 of the Garden Route Giro on Wednesday, 15 April 2026. Cronje Beukes once again proved himself to be the strongest climber in the men’s race, putting time into his nearest rivals, Wessel Botha and Marco Joubert, over the summit and [...]
The second stage of the Garden Route Giro saw dramatic racing in both the men’s and women’s categories on Tuesday, 14 April 2026. Stage winner Cronje Beukes climbed to an unassailable advantage on Rooiberg Pass, while Lisa Bone used the day’s biggest climb to build a buffer over the best descender in the women’s field, [...]
In both the men’s and women’s races on Stage 1 of the all-new Garden Route Giro, a trio of aggressive riders escaped off the front and established healthy advantages, despite the opening day of the inaugural race featuring a relatively short 73-kilometre-long route. Marco Joubert hoovered up the Sprint and King of the Mountain points [...]
The first edition of the Garden Route Giro begins on Monday, 13 April, with R700 000 in total prize money up for grabs. The men’s and women’s elite winners will each receive R100 000. In the men’s elite race, established gravel racers like Marco Joubert, Travis Stedman, Jaques Hanekom, Daniel Loubser, and Jan Withaar face off [...]
Every year, the South African mountain biking scene ramps up from the quiet miles of summer base training through the early season races of January, towards the first major stage race of the calendar in February, the Momentum Medical Scheme Tankwa Trek, presented by Biogen. Since its inception, 14 years ago, the race in the [...]
The cornerstone of any bike race is a route that can entertain and excite in equal measure; with the Garden Route Giro, all angles are covered. From the start at Jakkalsvlei Private Cellar to the final finish line at ANEW Resort Wilderness, gravel racers will traverse multiple biomes, climb and descend iconic passes, and visit [...]
Famed and feared, the Momentum Medical Scheme Attakwas Extreme, presented by Biogen, is known as the Hell of the South for good reason. Temperatures in the Klein Karoo can soar in January, the Attakwaskloof is formidably rocky, and the rolling roads in the second half of the 120-kilometre-long course are corrugated and packed with climbs [...]
The final stage of the 2026 Momentum Medical Scheme Tankwa Trek, presented by Biogen, on Sunday, 8 February, saw Greta Seiwald and Sara Cortinovis wrap up a perfect overall victory. The Decathlon Ford | Unno pairing completed their fourth stage win of the race to underline their dominance in the Anderson Transport UCI Women’s competition. [...]
Marc Pritzen and Hermann Pernsteiner ascended to glory on the Queen Stage of the 2026 Momentum Medical Scheme Tankwa Trek, presented by Biogen, claiming the King of the Mountain prize atop the Merino Monster and winning the stage. Andreas Seewald and Jakob Hartmann were second across the summit and finish line on Saturday, 7 February, [...]
