Kyle Bucklow defended his Old Fisherman’s Trail Challenge title on Sunday 4 June, during the race’s twentieth edition. The 25 kilometre route followed hiking trails with the fishermen used to treat from Hout Bay, on the Atlantic seaboard, to Fish Hoek, on the False Bay coast. The 2023 champion managed to hold off Robbie Rorich, [...]
Lijan van Niekerk overcame a 2 minute deficit to reel in the reigning Hout Bay Trail Challenge champion, Kristen Heath, within a kilometre of the Old Fisherman’s Trail Challenge finish line. Heath hung on for second, just 12 seconds ahead of Marzelle van der Merwe. The men’s race was a less dramatic affair, with Kyle [...]
Llewelyn Groeneveld and Lijan van Niekerk claimed the 2021 Old Fisherman’s Trail Challenge titles on Saturday, 5 June. The pair won the men’s and women’s races in dramatically different fashions; with Groeneveld outsprinting Robert Rorich, after the leader had been caught in the final kilometres. Van Niekerk, meanwhile, led from the front, extending her advantage [...]
