Yesterday’s Rainbow Challenge got the weekend’s UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships action underway at Cascades MTB Park as a large contingent of South Africans were joined by a score of foreigners for the slippery and muddy affair.
Brand du Plessis claimed victory in the men’s 35-39 category of Saturday’s Rainbow Challenge in Pietermaritzburg as he posted the fastest time of the day. Photo: Darren Goddard / Gameplan Media
View the results below:
Men 30-34 (70km)
1.Jan Withaar 3:54.39
2.Tyronne White 4:01.49
3.Craig Stone 4:06.04
4.Derrin Smith 4:10.00
5.Dion Froneman 4:10.34
Men 35-39 (70km)
1.Brand du Plessis 3:52.52
2.Grant Usher 4:03.29
3.David Cooke 4:12.41
4.Warren Price 4:14.13
5.Hennie Kriek 4:15.01
Men 40-44 (70km)
1.Werner Moolman 4:01.12
2.Andy Davies 4:16.31
3.Leon Erasmus 4:19.09
4.Lance Chapman 4:19.10
5.Dirk Barnard 4:22.24
Men 45-49 (70km)
1.Arno Daehnke 4:08.47
2.Bruce Diesel 4:09.08
3.Jeremy Thomson 4:11.57
4.Robert Sim 4:12.52
5.Petrus Swiegers 4:15.05
Men 50-54 (70km)
1.Andrew Mclean 3:54.52
2.Atle Hansen (SWE) 4:04.55
3.Jacek Brzozka (POL) 4:08.55
4.Doug Brown 4:10.16
5.William Wertheim-Aymes 4:28.22
Men 55-59
1.Greg Anderson 4:07.30
2.Paul Furbank 4:15.46
2.Norman Boy 4:26.16
3.Jimmy Redman 4:30.48
4.Kim Phillips 4:31.30
Men 60-64 (50km)
1.Linus van Onselen 3:04.56
2.Kjell Friberg 3:17.33
3.Cobus Slabbert 3:47.26
4.Sandy Kelly 3:47.46
5.John Becker 3:53.15
Men 65+ (50km)
1.Sandy Rae 3:38.29
2.Bruce Williams 4:00.57
3.Bruce Hansen 4:19.05
4.Tony Howe 4:31.31
5.Colin Mercer 5:24.51
Men Para
1.James van Rensburg 3:29.52
2.Craig Ridgard 4:16.51
The women’s race at the 2014 Rainbow Challenge were keenly contested with Western Cape resident Frances Barnard coming in first amongst the whole field as well as her 35-39 age category on Saturday. Photo: Darren Goddard /
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Women 30-34 (70km)
1.Nedene Cahill 4:50.00
2.Dalene van der Leek 4:51.29
3.Vanessa Bell 4:51.47
4.Liesl Lourens 5:06.39
5.Katerina Slegrova 5:08.18
Women 35-39 (70km)
1.Frances Barnard 4:28.20
2.Genevieve Weber 4:39.57
3.Michelle Vorster 4:48.47
4. Nadia Visser 5:17.05
5. Nicky Booyens 5:20.03
Women 40-44 (70km)
1.Yolande de Villiers 4:32.37
2.Natalie Bergstrom 4:54.02
3.Isabel Moolman 5:09.09
4.Andrea von Holdt 5:22.19
Women 45-49 (70km)
1.Brenda Potts 4:56.15
2.Monica Glover 5:04.21
3.Bonny Swanepoel 5:19.11
4.Wanda Tattersall 5:24.28
5.Sanmari Woithe 5:37.00
Women 50+ (50km)
1.Sarah van Heerden 3:35.00
2.Colleen Jacobs 3:56.47
3.Nicky Green 3:57.05
4.Helen Gibbings 4:14.36
5.Francis Marsburg 5:33.28
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