Stage 5 of the 2026 Nedbank Gravel Burn on Thursday, 29 October, took the race south from Merino Farm, in the Swaershoek Valley, to Gwanishi, near Middleton. A fast-paced 128-kilometre course culminated in sprint finishes in both the men's and women's races. Hayley Preen surged clear of women's general classification leader Nele Laing and Clara [...]
On a day when the general classification action took a pause, Travis Stedman and Alison Jackson won Stage 4 of the Nedbank Gravel Burn. Wednesday, 28 October 2026, brought searing heat, red-hot racing in the breakaway, a crash in the general classification group, and attempts by Marco Joubert to gain time over Matt Beers, Filippo [...]
Stage 3 of the 2026 Nedbank Gravel Burn featured the longest route of the second edition and crosswinds to boot, on a day when 90 of the 135 kilometres were raced on asphalt. Men's race leader Matt Beers lost time to Tristan Nortje, but gained on Filippo Colombo, in second, as Eddy le Huitouze won [...]
Matt Beers's firepower blew the elite men's race apart on Stage 2 of the Nedbank Gravel Burn on Monday, 26 October 2026. The South African came up short in the finale, however, losing out in a sprint for stage honours to his day-long breakaway companion, Filippo Colombo. The 105-kilometre stage, which looped from Blaauwater Farm [...]
The Grip's Mattia de Marchi survived from the early breakaway on Stage 1 of the 2026 Nedbank Gravel Burn to win on the opening day and seize the first Ember Jersey. Having exploited her climbing prowess on the 90-kilometre course from Graaff-Reinet to Blaauwater Farm, Nele Laing, of Canyon DT Swiss ATR, held off Alexis [...]
Two-time mountain bike marathon world champions Andreas Seewald and Henrique Avancini, Paris-Roubaix winner Alison Jackson and 2026 Gravel World Championships bronze medallist Larissa Hartog will join defending champions Matt Beers and Axelle Dubau-Prévot at the Nedbank Gravel Burn 2026, starting in Robert Sobukwe Town / Graaff-Reinet on Sunday, 25 October. The second edition of the [...]
Nedbank Gravel Burn has confirmed a unique, collaborative partnership with bike industry brands to bolster the event’s race-week Tech Support for the seven-day gravel stage race in the Karoo from 25 to 31 October. Component manufacturers Shimano and SRAM are named as the event’s Industry Partners. Given the unpredictable road surfaces and conditions over seven [...]
Long before Jakob Fuglsang became one of Denmark’s most accomplished road cyclists, he was a young mountain biker learning how to win the hard way. In October 2026, 20 years after he turned pro on the MTB, he is returning to his off-road roots at the Nedbank Gravel Burn. In 2006, he turned professional, moving [...]
Another signal in the new professionalisation of gravel racing, the Nedbank Gravel Burn, has introduced a team classification for the second edition, which takes place from the 25th to the 31st of October 2026. In so doing, the Nedbank Gravel Burn becomes the first major gravel stage race in the world to introduce a formalised team [...]
In episode 2 of the 2026 season of the Diverge Podcast, we look back at a mild and fast edition of the Attakwas Extreme, speculate on how the change to time parity with the men’s race will affect the women’s category at the Cape Epic, and discuss the announcement of the Burn Camps [...]
