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Elite Race Preview: Who Will Win the 2024 CT Cycle Tour?

The elite riders are racing to establish or expand a legacy this year.

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The 2024 Cape Town Cycle Tour will once again be more than just a bicycle race around the world’s most beautiful city. For the majority of the 27,500 competitors taking on the 109-kilometre course, it will be a celebration of health, friendship, and fellowship—an annual fun ride along a spectacularly scenic route. But then there are those for whom the Cape Town Cycle Tour is far more important —the elite racers who seek to join the pantheon of greats who have won the illustrious title before.

Victory on the second weekend in March is one of the few ways for cyclists to step out of the insular industry and into the greater South African sporting limelight. The race made household names of Hennie Wentzel, Ertjies Bezuidenhout, Willie Engelbrecht, and Cathy Carstens in its early years. More recently, Robbie Hunter, Anriette Schoeman, Cherise Willeit, Kim le Court, and of course, Nolan Hoffman, have gained fame through victory.

In 2024, the elite men’s race can be billed as a battle for legacy, while the elite women’s race will see a first-time winner. For the men, the surprise success of Chris Jooste in 2023 will probably impact how the race is controlled. Jooste, along with Andries Nigrini, Jaedon Terlouw, and Daniel Loubser, made a breakaway stick, holding off the peloton of favourites by a slender 7 seconds. Lightning is unlikely to strike from a break for the third time in successive years, but cycling can also be a strange sport, and if the favourites’ teams are represented in a break, the race could see an unlikely winner once more.

The more likely scenario is that Hoffman, at 38 years of age, will do his utmost to win a record-equalling fifth title. However, it has been three years since his fourth victory in October 2021 when the race was rescheduled due to the Covid Pandemic, and the veteran racer’s younger rivals may have an edge over him now. The foremost of these is the 2022 Cape Town Cycle Tour winner, Marc Pritzen. The Honeycomb rider also has a formidable team to support his efforts with Tristan Nortje, who was second in the road race at the South African National Championships a month ago. If Honeycomb can help Pritzen to victory, the 24-year-old will take a major step towards becoming the standard-bearer for this decade’s star riders at the Cape Town Cycle Tour.

Pritzen’s 2022 win came from a powerful early break, which was able to remain clear, partly because of their strength and partly due to the wet weather. One suspects that Honeycomb will have to exploit the blustery conditions predicted to enable Pritzen to take a reduced group to the line. He will have to be cautious of the makeup of that group, however. The 2022 runner-up Sascha Weber could well still be smarting for revenge, while Alan Hatherly and Namibian Road Champion Alex Miller are two men who will be tough to beat in a reduced group sprint.

Under-23 talent Tyler Lange – whose father Malcolm Lange won the race three times between 1998 and 2010 – is also a rider to watch. As is the 2023 runner-up Terlouw, who like Jooste and his RKC Collective teammate Kent Main, will be searching for a spot in a dangerous group that may surprise the favourites. The inaugural Under 17 race winner, Nicky van der Merwe, steps up to the full distance this year and is, along with Travis Rademan-Ludeke, confident of upsetting the more established Cape Town Cycle Tour campaigners.

In the elite women’s race, the absence of four of last year’s top five due to international racing commitments has created an opportunity for a new winner to step up. Since the move to a separate elite women’s race in 2018, which starts in Fish Hoek and takes in the final 78 kilometres of the normal route, only Willeit and Le Court have won the Cape Town Cycle Tour. Now Vera Looser, Carla Oberholzer, and Tiffany Keep have a great opportunity to write their names in the history books.

The Namibian Road Champion, Looser, has the best previous results of the trio. In 2023, she was pipped to the line by Le Court. Oberholzer is riding high on confidence following a sprint victory for the South African Champion’s title and will be tough to beat. Keep has matured in leaps and bounds as a rider and now races for the DAS-Hutchinson-Brother UK Continental Cycling Team. In 2019, Keep was arguably the strongest rider in the race, but paid for spending too much time on the attack. Five years later, she will know to reserve her efforts for key moments.

Looser, Oberholzer, and Keep will not have it all their own way, however. Iranian mountain bike champion Faranak Partoazar makes her Cape Town Cycle Tour debut for the Pump for Peace team, while Customized Cycling Pirtek will have options in the form of Kelsey van Schoor and Melissa Kretzinger. Perennial challenger, S’annara Grove, could upset the favourites, as could the freshly crowned South African Junior Road Race Champion, Errin Mackridge.

To watch the racing action, tune in to the live broadcast on the Cape Town Cycle Tour website,  capetowncycletour.com , from 06:00 on Sunday, 10 March. Regular updates from the course can also be found at @CTCycleTour  on Twitter, while the  @ctcycletour  Instagram and  Cape Town Cycle Tour Facebook pages will share highlights throughout the day.

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Win a Cape Town Cycle Tour Entry!

How to enter: Reply to the Competition post that is posted on the Expresso Show Facebook page, Expresso Show Twitter Page and Expresso Show Instagram Page during the Competition Period and answer the question: Which Cape Town Cycle Tour distance would you like to race and why? Include #CTCycleTour

Competition opens: Thursday, 18 January 2024 10:00 Competition closes: Friday, 19 January 2024 12:00

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2. Competition Period 2.1 The Competition will open at 10h00 on 18 th January 2024 and will close at 12h00 (midday) on 19 th January 2024 ( Competition Period ). 2.2 The organizers reserve the right (on its sole and absolute discretion) to extend, shorten, suspend any or all of the Entry Periods or to terminate the Competition for technical, commercial, and/or operational reasons, or for reasons beyond its control.

3. Who can enter 3.1 In order to be eligible to enter the Competition: 3.1.1 you must be a legal, permanent resident or citizen of the Republic of South Africa; 3.1.2 you must be at least 13 (thirteen) years of age; 3.1.3 if you are younger that 18 (eighteen) years of age, you must be assisted by a parent/legal guardian, who approves of, and consents to you entering the Competition and to your possession and use of the prize; and 3.1.4 you must be a natural person (e.g. not a company, close corporation, trust or other similar legal entity). 3.2 Notwithstanding clause 1, you are not eligible to enter this Competition if: 3.2.1 you are a director, member, partner, employee, agent or consultant of the organisers of the Competition, or any other person who directly or indirectly controls or is controlled by the organisers; 3.2.2 you are an immediate family member of any of the persons specified in clause 3.2.1; or 3.2.3 you are a supplier of goods or services in connection with the Competition.

4. How to Enter 4.1 We will include 1 (one) Competition post each on Expresso’s Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/expressoshow.sabc3/ ), 1 (one) Competition post on the Expresso Twitter page (https://twitter.com/expressoshow) and the Expresso Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/expressoshow/ ( Competition Posts ) at the commencement of the Competition Period. 4.2 To enter, you must comply with all the following requirements: 4.2.1 Reply to the competition posts that are posted on the Expresso Facebook, Twitter or Instagram pages during the competition period and comment on the post answering the question: Which Cape Town Cycle Tour distance would you like to race and why? Include #CTCycleTour in your answer. 4.2.2 Once you meet the requirements set out in clause 3 above and this clause 4, you will automatically be entered into the Competition. 4.3 You may enter as many times as you like on all platforms, provided that each entry is unique (i.e. not the same ‘selfie’). 4.4 No automated entries will be allowed. Entries must be made manually. 4.5 If your entry is submitted in a manner that in the sole discretion of the organisers will provide you with an unfair advantage over other entrants, you will be disqualified from the Competition. 4.6 You are required to attend to the cost for your entry, including standard internet costs.

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6. The Prize 6.1 The winner will receive one (1) entry to the 2024 Cape Town Cycle Tour race on 10 March 2024. The winner will have a choice between the 42km OR 109km race, subject to the following conditions: 6.1.1 The Cape Town Cycle Tour organisers will contact winners to determine prize delivery. 6.1.2 The Prize does not include any other items that are not specifically stated herein. 6.1.3 The Prize is not transferrable and may not be exchanged for any other items. 6.1.4 We reserve the right to substitute the Prize, or part thereof, with any other prize of a similar commercial value.

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MARK ETHERIDGE: Tiffany keeps her feet firmly on the pedals

Cape town cycle tour winner has an ‘engine’ that just keeps pumping out the watts.

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If there was ever a case of a sportsperson simply keeping her chin up and putting her head down in the face of adversity it was Tiffany Keep’s debut Cape Town Cycle Tour victory last week.

The KwaZulu-Natal born youngster, who rode her first competitive race at the age of 10, turned 23 late last year but started 2024 in anything but a healthy head space having lost her grandmother mid-January.

“I was also going through a difficult time in a relationship, and which has since ended on good terms, but there was so much stress and uncertainty in both my brain and body,” Keep says.

“The first race of the year was national road champs which didn’t go well and I was emotionally drained, falling short of my goals and I knew the sheer stress was holding me back.”

Keep refuses to be bowed, though.  

“One of my biggest takeaways from the ups and downs of my personal relationship was that sport is so demanding that if something is even slightly off kilter it can have a massive effect when we have to give 100%.”

So Keep knuckled down, threw herself into training, surrounded by her loyal group of friends at her Stellenbosch base where she has lived for two years, and focused on getting back to racing.

“On the Monday of race week I found a quote — “the words you speak, become the house you live in” — that stuck with me and on race day I just had one of those days where I got to the point that I could race to my sense of potential and I was absolutely elated.”

The person whose has had the most influence on her career is her dad, Tim. “Both my parents were amazing ... but it was always up to me to excel. My dad is the most influential person in my career. He can watch me racing anywhere in the world on television and read my body language and say if I’m having a good or bad day or not. He’s always been my teacher and mentor.”

Speaking of her Cape Town Cycle Tour, where the Das Hutchinson-Brother UK rider edged out S’annara Grove in a time of 2hr 12min 1sec for the 78km haul, she said:  

“I woke up and I was fired up from the get-go. Some people were taken aback by my confidence but this time I knew from the start it was a good day. My legs felt good, I was staying relaxed and was in control all day. I planned on going hard on Chappies (Chapman’s Peak) at a certain point when the racing was relaxed ... but when I launched I was still shocked to see only national road champion Carla Oberholzer staying with me.

Tiffany Keep savours her victory in the Cape Town Cycle Tour with her competitors. Picture: CHRIS HITCHCOCK

“I attacked again going up Suikerbossie (the tough 2km final climb of the race) and coming up to the finish I was in the front of the bunch and not the ideal place to be, but when S’annara came around me with a lot of speed, I had to put in a big kick to get around her and this little voice said to me, ‘this is your day, go and finish it off.’

“I’m so pleased that I showed a lot of my true potential this time and believed in myself. In areas where I used to be dropped, on the climbs, it was me putting on pressure and I felt so in tune with myself. In fact, not once in the whole race did I second-guess myself or doubt my ability.”

That’s something that makes her coach, Barry Austin, one of the country’s most experienced bike coaches, a happy man.

“I’ve been coaching Tiff since late 2020 in all disciplines, but slowly shifting towards road where I can see her really grow. With her huge ‘engine’ the road is a big possibility and future for her. The biggest thing holding her back until now has been her self-belief.”

He puts that down to the SA racing scene. “Often the individual doesn’t develop out of the team shadow and here I think her two six-month stints in Europe have done her the world of good.

“Also, it’s not about how many watts of power you’re capable of pushing out, it’s a question of how you use those watts that you have at your disposal. On Sunday (Cape Town Cycle Tour race day) her understanding of both her mental and physical capacity were used so well.”

Austin is firmly of the opinion that Keep’s best is yet to come. “She’s got the potential to be the next big thing in SA cycling, not like Ashleigh [Moolman Pasio] as a general classification rider, but more of a top sprinter or classics rider.”

Almost a week after her race, Keep is still on cloud nine. “It’s one of my biggest wins, because historically the Cape Town Cycle Tour has been around for years and it’s huge exposure for any cyclist.”

Of course the decent wad of prize money is very welcome. “I’m off to go and race in the UK and Europe for the next six months so that will be a big help. I’ve worked out there are probably going to be about 50 race days in that period so I’m looking at getting my name out there properly.”

Like any elite cyclist she has a few injury keepsakes. “Probably the most scariest situations in my biking career was when I broke my collar bone, earning my cycling rite of passage, eight years ago this month. It was an under-16 road race in Mpumalanga, very hot, and I was racing up with the boys and hanging onto them. But I didn’t drink enough which ended up with me not remembering a three-hour section of my life.

“I apparently rode into the side of a car and then ricocheted off the side of the road and ended up with a broken collarbone. I went from riding in a group to sitting up in a hospital with my arm in a sling.”

She opted to let the bone heal naturally, which saw her sidelined for eight weeks, but the wait was worthwhile and she won four national titles that year.

Elite cycling is not for the faint of heart and Keep is quick. “The fastest speed I’ve ever hit on my bike was 105km/h at a training camp and it was quite scary; in fact, to this day I don’t even think I’ve told my mom just how fast I went but I guess she’ll find out now,” she laughs.

Out of the saddle, Keep has a keenly creative side and loves dabbling with photography and also keeps a regular journal of her life on and off the bike. She also reveals her first lifestyle activity was ballet before bike. “I did mainly ballet for the first few years of my childhood life.”

Sticking with the B-word she reveals that there’s one fruit that is a bee in her bonnet. “I love banana bread, I’ll drink a smoothie with a banana in it but do not give me a simple banana to eat — it’s not going to happen.”

B is also for bag, in her case her go-to fashion accessory. “You’ll always find me with my Sealand moon bag, it’s an extension of my body. My overseas teammates see me arriving with my dark glasses and moon bag and often say I look like I’m going to a rave and not a race.

“But it’s a reminder of home, they’re a Cape Town-based company and their logo is Table Mountain, so what’s not to love about it.”

Getting back to her lifetime mentor, father Tim says from an early age his mentoring mantra was fun.

“It was all about having fun, and keeping it fun, with both our kids, no matter if it was training or racing. As long as I see a smile on her dial after she’s ridden her bike it’s great. From an early age I punted that the kids must play team sports and different sports and not focus purely on one thing.

Running a busy bakery in Gillitts, KwaZulu-Natal, nothing pleased Tim more than seeing his daughter rise from the ashes last weekend.

“To see how she rode at the weekend was to see the way I know she can ride. The change from early February to now is fantastic. And such an important part of that is her friend base. She has about 10 different people who ride with her at different times and having good people around her makes all the difference.

“She definitely wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she’s a little irritated but also focused, like at the weekend, is when the fireworks happen.”

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Winning Cape Town Cycle Tour gave Kent Main ‘goosebumps’

‘It’s amazing! It was an amazing race. It was super hard right from the beginning, but I think how tough it was actually worked in our favour. It’s amazing to have won it!’

Kent Main won the 46th edition of the men’s race of the 2024 Cape Town Cycle Tour in the Mother City on Sunday morning.

Main slipped off the front of a select group, inside the final five kilometres and time trialled to the line.

The men’s race started with bang. The pace was frenetic with Jaco van Dyk making the first attempted breakaway. Once the Honeycomb Pro Cycling rider was caught, a group of six launched clear.

They were driven down the Blue Route by Theuns van der Bank, with Brad Scott, Dan Loubser and Luke Moir also helping extend the gap. Despite having a teammate in the break, Honeycomb recognised the danger posed by the men at the front and worked to bring the leaders back.

The peloton never made the catch. Honeycomb’s pace shredded the field and only a select, reduced group, were able to reel in the leaders, who themselves had been whittled down to just Loubser and Moir by the time they reached Scarborough.

The duo at the front were eventually caught approaching the final significant climb of the race by Alan Hatherly, Kent Main, Marc Pritzen, Jaedon Terlouw, Charlie Aldridge, Jaco Venter and Alex Miller.

As the catch was made the pace increased and Loubser and Terlouw were unable to follow on the steepest pitches of Suikerbossie.

This left a group of Hatherly, Main, Pritzen, Terlouw, Aldridge, Venter, Miller, and Moir to fight it out for victory. A tactical battle played out over the next few kilometres until Main ghosted off the front.

Once clear, Main put his head down and charged for Green Point. Only within the final 400 metres could he relax and soak up the emotions. With a double armed salute, he crossed the line.

“I’ve got goosebumps,” Main grinned.

“It’s amazing! It was an amazing race. It was super hard right from the beginning, but I think how tough it was actually worked in our favour. It’s amazing to have won it!”

Behind Main the chase group fought out a messy sprint for second, which British mountain biker Aldridge won ahead of his Cannondale Factory Racing teammate Hatherly. Venter was fourth, with Moir completing the top five ahead of Prizen and Miller.

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Cape Town Cycle Tour: Fastest finish time, oldest rider and other records

The Cape Town Cycle tour has grown massively since it was first started. Here are some records worth knowing before the 2019 edition.

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The Cape Town Cycle tour, now in its 42nd year, has become a favourite on the race calendar of both elite and weekend lycra warriors.

Participation has boomed from just over 500 entrants back in 1978 to between 26 000 and over 30 000 at its peak.

Conventionally raced over 110 kilometres, the race has, at times, been cut short due to adverse weather conditions – from strong winds to extreme heat.

Such disruptions are expected with outdoor sports, of course. Nevertheless, for anoraks, the race has some intriguing records, most notably it’s fastest finish times – mostly because they have existed for so long.

Course records for the conventional distance

  • Men: 2:27:29 by Robbie Hunter (2008)
  • Women: 2:44:04 by Renee Scott (1991)

Most consecutive wins in an age group

Penny Krohn, 25 age group wins

Fastest ever time and highest average speed

Wimpie van der Merwe – 2:16:40, averaging 46.1 km/h. This was over a 105km course distance in 1993.

Oldest rider to compete

Japie Malan, 92 years old during the 2012 Cycle Tour, holds quite a few of the “oldest ever” records.

He rode the race on a tandem bike and finished in a time of 5:49:00 during the 2012 edition. The maximum allowed time is seven hours.

Malan was also the oldest man (90 at the time) to ride on a single bike back in 2010. He finished the race in a time of 6:48:52.  That followed six years after he became the oldest ever first-time rider back in 2006 at the youthful age of 84. He finished that race in a time of 6:43:38. You’re never too old!

In 2017, Malan was awarded with a special scroll, acknowleding his efforts.

A standing ovation as Japie Malan receives his #LegendsOfCycleTour scroll! – – – #CycleTour2017 #40years40reasons #CycleTour pic.twitter.com/o1SqpzoTrS — Cape Town Cycle Tour (@CTCycleTour) March 10, 2017

Changes to the route through the years

  • Between 2000 and 2003, the race followed an alternative route due to the closure of Chapman’s Peak Drive, with a return trip via Ou Kaapse Weg and the Blue Route.
  • The race has been stopped three times due to extreme weather, although in the first two cases many competitors had completed the race before the stoppage, and once significantly shortened due to fire. It has been cancelled once:
  • The 2002 race was stopped at 14:45 at Ou Kaapse Weg when temperatures reached 42 °C.
  • The 2009 race was stopped at 16:30 at Chapman’s Peak due to strong winds, with gusts up to 100 km/h  that blew cyclists off their bikes.
  • The 2015 race took place on a significantly shortened route of 47km to the end of the Blue Route and back, following a major fire earlier that month that led to the closure of Chapman’s Peak Drive and parts of Ou Kaapse Weg.
  • The 2017 race was cancelled on the day due to extreme weather. Wind gusts  in excess of 100 km/h in addition to fires on part of the route caused the event organisers to cancel after the first round of cyclists had started the race.
  • The threat of possible protest action along a section of the route also increased safety concerns. Participants who had started already were turned back at the end of the M3 highway.

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10 reasons you need to enter the Cape Town Cycle Tour

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On the second Sunday in March each year, thousands of cyclists hit the roads of Africa’s most beautiful city for the biggest social occasion in Lycra. The Cape Town Cycle Tour will be held for the 46th time in 2024. It now boasts two events: the classic 109km route around the peninsula and the 42km route that was introduced in 2023 to encourage a new band of cycling brothers and sisters to join the ranks of Cycle Tour finishers. Here’s a reminder of why you should do it!

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Fully closed roads

The only cars you will find on the route are official event vehicles, so you can really enjoy every kilometre without worrying about big tin cans and their distracted drivers.  

You won’t be alone

Cape Town is already South Africa’s cycling city, but on Cycle Tour Sunday, bicycles really do rule and with thousands rolling, you won’t have a moment of loneliness.

Eat, drink and be merry

There are 12 fabulously stocked refreshment stations on the route, powered by Coca-Cola, Powerade, and water, and a friendly massage therapist or two to keep your motor running.

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Make history

Be a part of the ongoing history of the Cycle Tour. There are two riders who have ridden every single one, including the inaugural event in 1978, but there are categories and jerseys for 10-time, 21-time, 30-time and 40-time finishers too; long-term goals rock!

It’s so pretty!

The Cape is spectacular in late summer; from the Blue Flag beaches to the cooling forests, the world-famous Table Mountain and the myriad of heritage sites along the way, there’s always something to distract from the effort.  

Suikerbossie…

Yes, indeed, the most feared climb on the entire route, the mile-long sufferfest out of Hout Bay, is a mighty good reason to enter. It’s the final hurdle on the route and is lined with spectators urging, pushing, massaging and cajoling – an unmissable passage you will remember forever.  

Measure yourself

The Cape Town Cycle Tour ranks as one of the biggest timed races in the world; every finisher gets a time and a position, so you can see where you stand in any one of your cycling or friendship circles.

And measure again…

If you’ve ridden it before, here’s your chance to see if you’ve been good with your training. The Cycle Tour keeps records of every single finish of every rider for each of the 45 events to date. Maybe your dad rode it in 1979; did you beat him?

Ride for a charity

The Cycle Tour raises millions for charity for its two beneficiaries, the Pedal Power Association and the Rotary Club of Claremont, but you can also ride for your own charity or join one of the many charity groups that block-book entries and ride together to raise funds and awareness on this glorious day.  

The Cape Town Cycle Tour – for all the reasons above and more – is totally Instagrammable, so fire up your social media apps and remember to hashtag #ctcycletour as you make the world jealous of your grand adventure.

Visit  www.capetowncycletour.com  to secure your spot on the start line.

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2024 Cape Town Cycle Tour: Racing to Establish or Expand a Legacy

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8 Mar 2024 - Press Release

The 46 th edition of the Cape Town Cycle Tour will once again be more than just a bicycle race around the world’s most beautiful city. For the majority of the 27 500 competitors taking on the 109 kilometres course it will be a celebration of health, friendship and fellowship. An annual fun ride along a spectacularly scenic route. There are those for whom the Cape Town Cycle Tour is far more important too, the elite racers who seek to join the pantheon of greats who have won the illustrious title before.

Victory on the second weekend in March is one of the few ways for cyclists to step out of the insular industry and into the greater South African sporting limelight. The race made household names of Hennie Wentzel, Ertjies Bezuidenhout, Willie Engelbrecht and Cathy Carstens in its early years. More recently Robbie Hunter, Anriette Schoeman, Cherise Willeit, Kim le Court, and of course, Nolan Hoffman have gained fame through victory.

In 2024 the elite men’s race can be billed as a battle for legacy, while the elite women’s race will see a first-time winner. For the men the surprise success of Chris Jooste, in 2023 will probably impact how the race is controlled. Jooste, along with Andries Nigrini, Jaedon Terlouw and Daniel Loubser made a breakaway stick, holding off the peloton of favourites by a slender 7 seconds. Lightning is unlikely to strike, from a break, for the third time in successive years; but cycling can also be a strange sport and if the favourites teams are represented in a break the race could see an unlikely winner once more.

The more likely scenario is that Hoffman, at 38 years of age, will do his utmost to win a record equalling fifth title. It has however been three years since his fourth victory, in October 2021 when the race was rescheduled due to the Covid Pandemic, and the veteran racer’s younger rivals may have an edge over him now. The foremost of these is 2022 Cape Town Cycle Tour winner, Marc Pritzen.

The Honeycomb rider also has a formidable team to support his efforts with Tristan Nortje, who was second in the road race at the South African National Championships a month ago, the other stand-out talent in the ten-rider strong team. If Honeycomb are able to help Pritzen to victory, the 24-year-old will take a major step towards becoming the standard bearer for this decade’s star riders at the Cape Town Cycle Tour.

Pritzen’s 2022 win came from a powerful early break which were able to remain clear, partly because of their own strength and partly due to the wet weather. One suspects that Honeycomb will have to exploit the blustery conditions predicted in order to enable Pritzen to take a reduced group to the line. He will have to be cautious of the make-up of that group however. 2022 runner-up Sascha Weber could well still be smarting for revenge, while Alan Hatherly and, Namibian Road Champion, Alex Miller are two men who will be tough to beat in a reduced group sprint.

Under 23 talent, Tyler Lange – whose father Malcolm Lange won the race in three times between 1998 and 2010 – is also a rider to watch. As is 2023 runner up Terlouw, who like Jooste and his RKC Collective teammate Kent Main will be searching for a spot in a dangerous group which may surprise the favourites. The inaugural Under 17 race winner, Nicky van der Merwe steps up to the full distance this year and is, along with Travis Rademan-Ludeke, confident of upsetting the more established Cape Town Cycle Tour campaigners.

In the elite women’s race the absence due to international racing commitments of four of last year’s top five has created an opportunity for a new winner to step up. Since the move to a separate elite women’s race in 2018, which starts in Fish Hoek and take in the final 78 kilometres of the normal route, only Willeit and Le Court have won the Cape Town Cycle Tour. Now Vera Looser, Carla Oberholzer and Tiffany Keep have a great opportunity to write their names in the history books.

The Namibian Road Champion, Looser, has the best previous results of the trio. In 2023 she was pipped to the line by Le Court. Oberholzer is riding high on confidence following a sprint victory, for the South African Champion’s title, over Hayley Preen and will be tough to beat. While Keep has matured in leaps and bounds as a rider, and now races for the DAS-Hutchinson-Brother UK Continental Cycling Team. In 2019 Keep was arguably the strongest rider in the race, but paid for spending too much time on the attack, five years later she will know to reserve her efforts for key moments.

Looser, Oberholzer and Keep will not have it all their own way however. Iranian mountain bike champion Faranak Partoazar makes her Cape Town Cycle Tour debut, for the Pump for Peace team, while Customized Cycling Pirtek will have options in the form of Kelsey van Schoor and Melissa Kretzinger. Perennial challenger, S’annara Grove could upset the favourites as could the freshly crowned South African Junior Road Race Champion, Errin Mackridge.

To watch the racing action, tune in to the live broadcast on the Cape Town Cycle Tour website, www.capetowncycletour.com , from 06:00 on Sunday, 10 March. Regular updated from the course can also be found at @CTCycleTour on Twitter, while the @ctcycletour Instagram and Cape Town Cycle Tour Facebook pages will share highlights from throughout the day.

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  1. Kent Main's got 'goosebumps' after 'amazing' Cape Town Cycle Tour win

    Kent Main won the 46th edition of the men's race of the 2024 Cape Town Cycle Tour in the Mother City on Sunday morning. Main slipped off the front of a select group, inside the final five ...

  2. Elite Race Preview: Who Will Win the 2024 CT Cycle Tour?

    The 2024 Cape Town Cycle Tour will once again be more than just a bicycle race around the world's most beautiful city. For the majority of the 27,500 competitors taking on the 109-kilometre course, it will be a celebration of health, friendship, and fellowship—an annual fun ride along a spectacularly scenic route.

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    SA duo bag respective men's and women's Cape Town Cycle Tour titles. South Africa's Kent Main won the men's elite Cape Town Cycle Tour on Sunday, while compatriot Tiffany Keep won the women's elite race. In perfect conditions for cycling, the 28-year-old Main crossed the line in an unofficial time of 2:31:21.

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  5. Cape Town Cycle Tour 2023 results: Every winner of every category

    in Cycling. Chris Jooste claimed Sunday's Cape Town Cycle Tour title while Kim Le Court De Billot completed a hat-trick of women's wins. Photo: Cape Town Cycle Tour. TufoBMC rider Chris Jooste ...

  6. EXCLUSIVE: Cape Town Cycle Tour winner Marc Pritzen chats to ...

    Going into a race as the reigning champion is really difficult and Kim handled it perfectly. In terms of winnings, I absolutely think it's necessary they keep the prize equal. (The men's and women's winner of the Cape Town Cycle Tour each earned R45 000, with prize money totalling R200, 000).

  7. Main and Keep Win Maiden Cape Town Cycle Tour Titles

    10 Mar 2024 - Press Release. (Cape Town, 10 March 2024) Kent Main and Tiffany Keep were worthy winners of the 46 th edition of the Cape Town Cycle Tour. Main slipped off the front of a select group, inside the final 5 kilometres and time trialled to the line. While in the women's race Keep edged out S'annara Grove with a bike throw on the ...

  8. EXCLUSIVE: Cape Town Cycle Tour winner Nolan Hoffman chats to ...

    Sport24 asked: Are you in favour of equal prize money for the men and women? Nolan Hoffman: It was a big step for the Cycle Tour Trust to offer equal prize money. (The men's and women's Cape Town Cycle Tour winner each received R45 000). There will always be people that differ in opinion and may feel that the male riders should be paid more.

  9. Lifecycle Week

    The 46th Cape Town Cycle Tour, the biggest timed bike race in the world, will be held on Sunday, 10 March 2024. Primarily, the Cycle Tour provides a glorious day out for tens of thousands of cyclists, no matter the weather. For just one day of the year, human power rules the roads of the fairest cape in the whole circumference of the earth (Sir ...

  10. Cape Town Cycle Tour (2024) Results

    42km Tandem. Results are not yet available for 42km Tandem. Please check back later. Individual Results.

  11. Win a Cape Town Cycle Tour Entry!

    The Prize 6.1 The winner will receive one (1) entry to the 2024 Cape Town Cycle Tour race on 10 March 2024. The winner will have a choice between the 42km OR 109km race, subject to the following conditions: 6.1.1 The Cape Town Cycle Tour organisers will contact winners to determine prize delivery. 6.1.2 The Prize does not include any other ...

  12. MARK ETHERIDGE: Tiffany keeps her feet firmly on the pedals

    If there was ever a case of a sportsperson simply keeping her chin up and putting her head down in the face of adversity it was Tiffany Keep's debut Cape Town Cycle Tour victory last week. The ...

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  14. Winning Cape Town Cycle Tour gave Kent Main 'goosebumps'

    Kent Main won the 46th edition of the men's race of the 2024 Cape Town Cycle Tour in the Mother City on Sunday morning. Main slipped off the front of a select group, inside the final five ...

  15. Live Results

    961 8. The 2024 Cape Town Cycle Tour is featuring the latest in real-time race tracking by providing live results via the SportSplits tracker. See who is winning via the Live Leaderboard below. Top riders in each category will be displayed in real-time as they lead the way through the course. PLEASE NOTE: Times posted during the event.

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    Cape Town Cycle Tour The Argus cycle tour is the world's largest individually timed cycle race and several events throughout the year help determine the seeding for this event. ... Teams competing for prize money must be between 6 and 12 cyclists in size. Entries open from late July.

  17. Cape Town Cycle Tour: Fastest finish time, oldest rider and other records

    Japie Malan, 92 years old during the 2012 Cycle Tour, holds quite a few of the "oldest ever" records. He rode the race on a tandem bike and finished in a time of 5:49:00 during the 2012 ...

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    The most magical bike route in the world, tens of thousands of cyclists owning the roads of one of Africa's busiest cities for a day while plowing millions back into the communities they ride through, and beyond.. and yet, The Cape Town Cycle Tour is just one of the events, processes and business units the Trust manages across the mass-participation sport spectrum.

  19. Western Cape ready for its annual Cape Town Cycle Tour

    The Premier has described the cycle race as an amazing economic driver, injecting millions of rands into the City of Cape Town's economy. The Cycle Tour is well-known for its scenic and challenging 109-kilometre route around the Cape Peninsula. Winde says road closures may inconvenience the public.

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  21. Cape Town MTB Challenge: All The Details

    After 20 years of being hosted in conjunction with the Cape Town Cycle Tour, the event formerly known as the Cape Town Cycle Tour MTB Challenge has been handed over to the Pedal Power Association to organise.It's being reimagined as the Cape Town MTB Challenge. ... PPA and non-PPA members are welcome. This year's prize money adds up to R30 ...

  22. 2021 Cape Town Cycle Tour

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  23. 10 reasons you need to enter the Cape Town Cycle Tour

    On the second Sunday in March each year, thousands of cyclists hit the roads of Africa's most beautiful city for the biggest social occasion in Lycra. The Cape Town Cycle Tour will be held for the 46th time in 2024. It now boasts two events: the classic 109km route around the peninsula and the 42km route that was introduced in 2023 to ...

  24. 2024 Cape Town Cycle Tour: Racing to Establish or Expand a Legacy

    The 46 th edition of the Cape Town Cycle Tour will once again be more than just a bicycle race around the world's most beautiful city. For the majority of the 27 500 competitors taking on the 109 kilometres course it will be a celebration of health, friendship and fellowship. An annual fun ride along a spectacularly scenic route.