Team Abantu’s Nolan Hoffman has won this year’s Cape Argus Pick n Pay Momentum Cycle Tour.
Riders getting ready for the 6:15 am start of the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Momentum Cycle Tour on March 9. Photo: Alicia Pillay / EWN Sport
The thirty-sixth annual 109 kilometre circular route from Cape Town down the Cape Peninsula and back kicked off just after 6am this morning.
Some 35 000 cyclists are taking part – 4 000 of whom are visitors to South Africa.
The Cape Argus Pick n Pay Momentum Cycle Tour is the world’s largest individually timed cycle race.
Meanwhile Burry Stander’s widow, Cherise has won the elite women’s race in the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Momentum Cycle Tour.
This is her third cycle tour win after taking the honours in 2008 and 2011.
Her late husband, mountain biker, Burry Stander, was run-over by a taxi while on a training ride at Shelly Beach in KwaZulu-Natal last year. – EWN
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