Wheelchair tennis stole the spotlight at the Limpopo Sports Awards held at The Ranch Hotel this past weekend in Polokwane, securing four prestigious awards. Donald Ramphadi, the French Open Champion, clinched the Sportsman of the Year with a Disability for the second consecutive year. Additionally, Lesedi Malepe, who won the Johan Cruyff Africa title, received the Newcomer of the Year award.
Helen Frans Special School secured the School Team of the Year award for the second year in a row, and Patrick Selepe was honored with the Coach of the Year award for guiding Alwande Sikhosana and Leon...
Wheelchair tennis stole the spotlight at the Limpopo Sports Awards held at The Ranch Hotel this past weekend in Polokwane, securing four prestigious awards. Donald Ramphadi, the French Open Champion, clinched the Sportsman of the Year with a Disability for the second consecutive year. Additionally, Lesedi Malepe, who won the Johan Cruyff Africa title, received the Newcomer of the Year award.
Helen Frans Special School secured the School Team of the Year award for the second year in a row, and Patrick Selepe was honored with the Coach of the Year award for guiding Alwande Sikhosana and Leon...
Ricky Brabec wins Dakar 2024
Brabec wins toughest Dakar, Branch second, Cox third in R3
Ricky Brabec has won Dakar 2024 for Honda from Hero Rider Ross Branch and Honda Teammate Adrien van Beveren. Californian Brabec ended sixth on the final day to consolidate his 10-minute advantage over the Botswana rider Branch as KTM duo Kevin Benavides and Toby Price took the day from Luciano Benavides. South Africa’s Bradley Cox meanwhile ended third overall in the Rally 2 class.
Brabec, and more so Honda in truth fully deserved the win. The Japanese giant’s factory machines won 8 out of 12 stages,...
11 February 2024 – Australia’s Nick Sloman added a second aQuellé Midmar Mile title to his ever-growing collection of accolades while there was joy for Kloof swimmer Tory Earle as she claimed her first women’s title, with the event wrapping up at the famous KwaZulu-Natal dam on Sunday.
Rough conditions meant a record time was not going to be likely for Sloman, who had returned to Midmar Dam after his 2019 win with the mission of breaking Chad Ho’s 2016 mark of 17 minutes flat.
He nevertheless produced a dominant performance on the day, storming to the front early on and opening up a massive...
BUFF-MEGAMO and GHOST Factory Racing sprint to victory on Stage 1 of 2024 Absa Cape Epic
Hans Becking and Wout Alleman (BUFF-MEGAMO) won Stage 1 in the men’s elite race at the 2024 Absa Cape Epic, while Anne Terpstra and Nicole Koller (GHOST Factory Racing) were Stage 1 winners in the Aramex Women’s category at Saronsberg Cellar in Tulbagh. Both the men’s and the women’s races concluded with thrilling sprint finishes after a fair amount of cat and mouse in the closing kilometres.
Becking and Alleman, Low Country riders from the Netherlands and Belgium respectively,...
Simon Schneller and Urs Huber (BULLS Mavericks) won Stage 7 - the Grand Finale - of the Absa Cape Epic men’s race, but it was Matt Beers and Howard Grotts of Toyota-Specialized-NinetyOne who claimed the overall title at the 2024 event.
In the Aramex Women’s Category, Anne Terpstra and Nicole Koller (GHOST Factory Racing) won an eighth stage in a row on their way to the 2024 Absa Cape Epic title. By winning every stage of the 2024 race (the Prologue and seven stages), the Dutch-Swiss combo matched the performance of Laura Stigger and Sina Frei, who also won eight stages on their way to...
