2011
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| African Championship
Accra, Dec 2011 |
From left: Yusthin Lintnaar, Andries Scheeper,
James van Rensburg, Francois Bezuidenhout, Lourens de Kock, Thabo
Sesing, Keenan Bickle, Madre Carinus
Day 1
(article taken from CSA website)
South Africa’s Para-cyclists raked in
a total of six gold medals on the first day of the 4th edition of the
International Cycling Union (UCI) African Para-cycling championship
Time Trial race on Saturday 10th December 2011 in Accra, Ghana.
The Time Trial competitors raced on a 3.2km stretch on the ‘Kanda
Highway’ forming a 6.4km lap.
For some of the team, it was the first time that they were
participating outside of South Africa. Young Madre Carinus
however, is considered a “veteran” at these events.
Madre, who hails from Stellenbosch, has represented her country on
several occasions and provided stability to the newcomers to the team.
Mr Maxwell Vardon, Executive Secretary of the National Council on
Persons with Disability, who opened the ceremony, expressed regret at
the treatment which many disabled persons experienced across Africa,
forcing them to resort to begging and other anti-social vices to earn a
living.
Madre and fellow tri-cyclists Keenan Bickle (Kimberley) and Yusthin
Lintnaar (Paarl) as the only riders in their categories (T1 men, T2
men, T1 Women), created awareness to the communities of Ghana who are
hard at work to develop the sport of Para-cycling. In the
process, they scored valuable UCI-points.
Madre completed her one lap in 14 minutes 30 seconds. Yustin
raced his two laps in 24 minutes 09 seconds (T2 men), while Keenan
suffered an unfortunate mechanical and could not finish his T1 race.
Andries Scheepers put on an impressive performance, racing in the H4
category. The Rustenburg local competes in the same category as
current World Champion Ernst van Dyk, and completed his three laps in
31 minutes 37 seconds.
C4 participant Thabo Sesing (Kimberley) proved that he is a force to be
reckoned with, and a talent worth nurturing as we progress towards the
2016 Paralympics. Thabo completed his three laps in 32 minutes 44
seconds.
The tandem team of Lourens de Kock (pilot) and Francois Bezuidenhout
raced in amongst five other teams in the B2 category. Their SA
teammates and supporters held their breath in anticipation as they had
broken several spokes during their 4 laps of the 6.4km circuit, yet
their outstanding performance still earned them a gold medal despite
their tribulations during their race. Lourens and Francois
clocked 41 minutes 44 seconds.
Team captain James van Rensburg was superb in guiding his team and
keeping them positive – James participated in the C5 class
amongst three participants, finishing his three laps in 29 minutes 21
seconds.
Ghana gained the exclusive rights from the UCI to host this year's
African Championship event, which will automatically qualify Team Ghana
and other African countries by accruing maximum points for the various
athletes to the 2012 London Paralympic Games.
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2012 Oceania Track Championships
Nov 2011, Invercagill, New Zealand
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The South
African Para-cycling track team have
performed exceptionally well in their time trial events on Sunday, the
first
day of the Oceania Championships being held in Invercargill, New
Zealand (20
November).
New South African records for the time trial were established by Jaco
Nel (C2),
Roxy Burns (C4-women), Dane Wilson (C5) and Stephan Herholdt (C4-men).
for more info go to http://www.cyclingsouth.org.nz/index.php?pageLoad=208
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League Winners
WPcyclingPD
Prize Giving
Sept 2011
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 Chris
Wagner - Senior League winner
 Yusthin
Lintnaar - Junior League Winner |
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SA
Institute for Drug Free Sport (SAIDS)
has just released a Position Statement on supplements.
...> download the pdf file |
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Road World
Championships Roskilde,
Denmark
Sept 2011 |
WE HAVE A WORLD CHAMPION - AGAIN!!
Punching above their weight, as usual, our team
did us proud -
producing a World Champion in the process. Ernst v Dijk beat the best in
the world in the H4 road race, claiming GOLD in what must have been a
fantastic
final sprint to watch. According to the National Team coach, Madre Carinus rode the championship
of her life, finishing just seconds short of a bronze medal in the road
race. Stuart McCreadie and Riaan Nel
rode extremely well and their finishing times, relative to the bunch
that produced the medallists, show just how competitive they were.
Thank you JC and your support team for a exceptionlly well
orgaised tour. The official results are on the UCI website.
The team included Ernst
van Dyk, Stuart McCreadie, Goldy Fuchs, Riaan Nel,
Gerhard Viljoen, Madre Carinus, Jaco Nel and the tandem pair Kamelen
Kleinsmith and Michelle van
Rensburg. With support provided by JC van der Walt (Manager),
Ricky Kulsen (Coach), Elmari Smit
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CSA Youth
Festival
June 2011 |
4 youngsters from WPcyclingPD made their
mark in
Oudtshoorn at the Cycling Youth Fetival organised by CyclingSA.
They are Jacquin April, Tasreeq Adams, Christian Sadie and
Willie
Kotze.
.. > Read
more.... |
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SIX MEDALS
FOR TEAM SA
at the UCI Para-cycling World Cup in Canada
July 2011
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SA got one Gold, two
Silvers and three Bronze medals. Ernst
van Dyk
got Gold
in a fantastic Road
Race (beating Sanches),
and a Bronz in
the TT and . Goldy Fuchs
also got two medals!!; a Silver
in the Road Race and a Bronz
in the TT, Madre Carinus got Silver in the TT (beating
her nemisis for the first time!); and Gerhard
Viljoen got Bronz
in the Road Race. WPcyclingPD is very proud of you all. Well
done!.
>... More detailed results on the UCI website
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photo from left to right are : Elmari Smit (Physio), Janos Plekker, Pieter Jansen (mechanic), Madre Carinus, Jaco Nel, Ernst van Dyk, Mike Burns (manager), Gerhard Viljoen, Goldy Fuchs, George Cornelison (coach) and Riaan
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SA Team to World Cup Road Event in
Sydney, Autralia - May 2011
The SA Team participated in
the UCI
Road World Cup
event that was held in Sydney from 4-6 May. The team
includes: JC vd
Walt (Manager), Jaco Nel, Alma Snyman (CP support)), Goldy Fuchs, Madre
Carinus, Roxy Burns, Ernst v Dyk, Michelle v Rensburg, Kamelen
Kleinsmith, Pieter Jansen (Mechanic), Stuart McCreadie and Ricky Kulsen
(Coach). (Elamrie Smit and Gerhard Viljoen are not on the photo).
Info
and link to Official UCI Results |
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CSA National Track Championships. April 2011
This year's Paracycling National Track Championship was a landmark
occasion. For the first time, the championships was an event that was
fully integrated with Cycling South Africa's able-body track National
Track Championships. Paracyclists who participated in
the
championships were widely representative of a number of regions: 4
riders represented Gauteng, 2 Nothern Cape, 1 Free State
and 6 Western Province. A new standard, based on 85% of the
current World Record times, was established for the championships
(necessary because of the new UCI classes that have come into effect
since the 2010 national championships). Four SA records were
established during the championships: two records for Jaco Nel (C2, TT
and Pursuit); Roxy Burns (C4, TT); and, Dane Wilson
(C5, TT). Well done to all of the riders who did SA
Paracycling proud through their individual and collective efforts. A
big thank you to CSA's track commission, and the event
organisers, who went out of their way to make their paracycling
colleagues feel extremely welcome at the championships.
...> Results |
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Nedbank
National Championships for people with physical disabilities,
Rustenburg. March 2011
WPcyclingPD
did it again!
Following on from 2010, the Western Cape is the 2011 Nedbank National Championships winning region for paracycling
(junior and senior). This achievement is attributable to everyone
who contributed in so many different ways - especially the athletes,
but also the management and support team.
Congratulations to Kamelen Kleinsmith
who was judged the most promising senior athlete at the national
championships, taking all sporting codes into account. In the
junior category, this accolade went to Freestate's newcomer Hannes Visser, also a
para-cyclist. Riaan Nel received
the Nedbank Star Award for his sporting achievements over the
years. Also, well deserved was the award given to Deon Mans for the most supportive
parent and team manager. Rounding off a great performance at
the championships, was the "Gees Award" earned by the WP team.
Results:-
Jnr Track
Time
Trial
Road Race
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2011 TRACK WORLD
CHAMPS
MONTICHIARI, ITALY
Well done to the SA Track Team fresh from
Italy. Jaco Nel did extremely well by winning 2 silver medals.
The team as a whole earned valuable points to secure important
slots that SA is aiming for at the London 2012 Paralympics
see results at the Montichiari website |
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OCC - 20 February
The OCC was again a great success and
Maties/Helderberg overshadowed the competition by miles.
see OCC's website
article on Stuart McCreadie's fantastic record breaking win.
WELL DONE STU!
Well done also
Ernst van Dyk (last time at the OCC in his racing chair), Gert van Wyk,
Jacquin April, Billy Giesenberg, Melindi v Eck and Delia Lubbe
who all
won their categories.
The results
of the OCC.
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Toer de Kaap - 13 to
18 Feb
The TDK from George to
George via 515 km of grueling hills and dales over 6 days is over. Only
4 of the 8 cyclists who started, completed the whole distance.
Eugene Steyn and Thomas Micklem held the WP flag high and we are
soooo proud of them. WELL DONE GUYS!!!. Thomas unfortunatly
had to withdrew after day 3 due to huge blisters and pressure sores.
Hope you recover soon Thomas. Eugene had a great tour and
despite all the hardship had a stirling performance at the OCC the
next day!!. This
is indeed the toughest tour and conditions were horrid, with
some days with unbearable heat and others in thick mist. Watch
this space for a indepth report.
....> read more about this
tour
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BOLAND DRUKPERS
FUNRIDE
SUNDAY
- 23
January |
Andrew Stodel, Stuart McCreadie
and Thomas Micklem rode the 84km Boland Drukpers Funride. It was a nice
route spoilt only a little by the strong wind from the front on the way
back to Paarl from Malmesbury.
Stuart finished
in a time of 03:01:52 at an average speed of 27.71km/h.
Andrew finished in a time of 03:37:36 at an average speed of 23.16km/h
and I finished in a time of 04:38:03 at an average speed of 18.13km/h.
We started in the
group with the tandems, just behind the junior league
riders. I see from the results that Stuart beat all the tandems home,
finishing 5 minutes before the first tandem.!!!
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2010
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Renosteveld
Mountainbike Stage
Race |
James
and Michelle van Rensburg
did this stage race from Langebaan
to Durbanville at the end of September.
Well
done to this amzing team!
...>read
more |
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Jhb |
Well
done Stuart on your fantastic 94.7km race up in the north.
3hr 50 !! amaZing!! |
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Rhenish150
Family Fun
Cycling Event - Oct 2010
WPcyclingPD
is most grateful to
everyone
who assisted and contributed in making Saturday’s Rhenish
mountain bike and road
race at Klein Joostenberg such a wonderful event. ..
..> read
more
..> RESULTS
(of
the Road Race)
....> Regular
League Results
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Europa
Cup Track Event, Kaarst, Germany
Oct 2010
WELL
DONE to the SA Team consisting of
Janos Plekker, Stephan Herholdt, Roxy Burns,
and Jaco Nel.
Well
done also to the coaches for
all the hard work the last year.
They came back with 2 personal bests, one
gold, one silver and 3 bronze and lots of beer AND the
fastest time for a SA paralympic sprint team ever.!
See
a photo of the team sprint team
on the website
....> website
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Manager's
Report and results
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WPcyclngPD Annual Prizegiving
18 September
2010
...> Podium List
A VERY BIG THANK YOU
to all our generous
sponsors
Parmalat; Dischem; Klein
Joostenberg
Deli; Flandria;
Marks Bicycle Shop; Helderberg Cycle World;
Thomas
Micklem; James & Michelle van Rensburg;
Coca Cola;
MacDonalds
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2010
UCI World
Championships
Road, Baie-Comeau, Canada
Sept 2010
Ernst brings
back TWO
silver medals. Well done Ernst,
we are very proud of you!!
Another
proudly South African moment
is refelected int he story of Gerhard Viljoen.
Official Reults
Ernst v Dyk (TT
- silver, RR - Silver); Stuart
McCreadie (TT - 13th, RR -
16th);
Krige Schabort (TT
- 7th, RR - 7th); Riaan Nel (TT
- 7th,. RR - 6th);
Gerhard Viljoen (TT
- 6th, RR -9th (without his bike) )..> read
more
about this remarkable story
Janos Plekker (TT
- 18th, RR - DNF); Jaco Nel (TT
- 8th, RR - 9th).
Get full results
from the UCI website.
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ERIC VAN
ENTER - July 2010
In
the June/July Holidays Deon
Mans took a team of 4 Junior cyclists to the Eric van Enter in the
Karoo. ...
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read more
Ernst
Mans, Christian Sadie, Sindisele Tjaka and Cherwin Williams came home
with the CUP!! |
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The
process of integrating
paracycling into the organization of Cycling South Africa (CSA) is
proceeding well. One outcome of this process is the award of National
Champion Jerseys to senior gold medallists at the 2010 South African
National Championships. This is in line with UCI tradition and
signifies a great step forward in terms of acknowledging excellence
within our paracycling community. Well done to all our
SA Champions:-
C1
Jaco Nel (SWD); C2
Oswald Kydd (KZN); C3
Reuben van
Niekerk (GN); C3
TRACK Coert van Straaten (GN); C4
Roxy
Burns (WP); C4
Janos Plekker (WP); C5
ROAD James van Rensburg (WP); C5
TRACK
Irish Matcheke (CG); H1
Pieter du Preez (CG); H2
Stuart McCreadie (WP); H4
Ernst van Dyk (WP); T1
Keenan Bickle; T2
Madre Carinus (WP); T2
Goldy Fuchs (WP); B
Jenovan Cornelissen
& Theo Schmeisser PLT (WP) B Cindy
Jacobsz & Michelle van Rensburg PLT
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2010
Paracycling World
CUP, Segovia,
SPAIN.
June 2010
Get
al the results
on the UCI website.
The team
that represented South Africa this time around is:
Ernst van Dyk
(WP), James van Rensburg (WP), Madre Carinus
(WP), Jaco Nel (SWD), Erick Kapp
(GN), Gerhard Viljoen (CG)
...>
Official Report by theTeam
Manager, Ludwig Gerstner
Here James
van Rensburg is doing a training ride in the rain in Spain |
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SPAR
LADIES RACE
Now
what have
we here?? Interested in Andries and Tony's, very weak,
excuse?
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more |
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2010
Wales Grand Prix, NewPort.
...> results
Melly
Claasen (mechanic), Irish Matcheke, Melissa Hillhouse
(physio), Roxy Burns, Janos Plekker and Stephan Herholdt |
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HERMANUS
WHEELS AND RUNNERS
RACE
...> Read Thomas's Report
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> Results
www.hermanusrace.co.za |
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Stuart's
view of the TOER
de KAAP 21-26 February 2010
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the story
this
is not for the faint-hearted |
2009
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THE
BURGER - 29 November 2009
The three hand
cyclists, namely Thomas Micklem,
Stuart McCreadie
and Andrew
Stodel started
at 05:50 on Sunday morning together with the tandems from Nelsons Creek
Wine Estate near Wellington on the 97km journey of Die Burger Cycle
Tour. It was a lovely day for cycling being overcast and reasonably
cool and also with almost windless conditions.
The route took us from
Nelsons Creek into Wellington via the Lady Loch bridge, then on the
undulating road to Hermon. From Hermon the route went to Malmesbury and
at the 30km mark the only real climb of the day
started, the
Botmaskloof pass between Riebeek Kasteel and Malmesbury. The climb went
on for 10km and climbed a total of 266m.
After the climb there
was a long downhill into Malmesbury and then the undulating route back
to Nelsons Creek.
Stuart McCreadie
finished the 97km in a time of 3:58:10 and remarkably even beat at
least 6 tandems home.
Andrew Stodel finished
in a time of 4:33:38 and Thomas Micklem finished in a time of 6:37:51.
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2009
UCI
Paracycling TRACK World Championships
in
Manchester - Nov
2009
The team was
Janos Plekker (WP), Roxy Burns (WP), Irish Matcheke (CG). Jaco Nel (SWD)
Congratulations Roxy
for improving her
personal best
times in both the 500m and 3000m and coming home with a SILVER
medal.
Congratulations
to Janos
who
did very well and improved his
personal best times for the 1000m and rode a very competitive time for
the new CP4 event of 4000m.
Between Ernst
and Roxy SA got 2 silvers and 1
bronze at the
this
year's Paracycling World Championships
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2009 UCI PAracycling TT and
Road World
Championships, Bogogno, Italy.
8-13
September 2009
The team
that represented South Africa this time around is:
Ernst van Dyk
(WP), James van Rensburg (WP), Madre Carinus
(WP), Jaco Nel (SWD), Erick Kapp
(GN), Gerhard Viljoen (CG)
Well
done to Ernst van Dyk
who won BRONZE
and SILVER medals for
his
TT
and Road Race events respectively. Very well done to Madre Carinus and
James van
Rensburg too. We are proud of you.
...> read more on
the UCI website
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CONGRATULATIONS to Ernst
van Dyk who came home
with
GOLD from the gruelling Sadlers Alaskan Challenge.!!!
Well done Ernst we
are proud
of you
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> read
more
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Our
deepest sympathy for Nabeela, Uwais and family with
the
sudden and unexpected passing away of Siraaj. We will all
miss
him deeply.
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Roxy Burns of
Maties/Helderberg sportsclub
in Stellenbosch was invited to represent SA at the BT
Paralympic World Cup cycling
championships held during May
in Manchester, UK. This is a prestigious invitation, extended only to
the selected cyclists with physical disabilities of various countries
worldwide. Roxy participated in the 500 m individual time trial and
3000m pursuit track events at Manchester. Roxy achieved her personal
best time, earning a 4th place in the 500 m event.
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On the 9th of
May the Hermanus
Wheels and Runners Race was
held again. Our cyclists did
very well . See the results and
maybe someone has some photos or a short report to add here.
The website
is worth a visit too!
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2009
Nedbank SA
Nationals. We will
not talk too much
about that since Central Gauteng nipped both the cups, but we all had a
great time and our cyclists did some fantastic performances.
the photos you are familiar with, but it's worth mentioning
James van Rensburg's great first-time ride with us. We enjoy
your company and participation very much. I don't want to
start mentioning names - everyone was a star. Thanks yet
again to the Mans family, Alma and Janine with all the help there and
Trixi and all the others for the behind the scenes hard work.
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And then
there was the 2009 CAPE
ARGUS .
anyone to
give us a summary of the
tandems, handcyclists and bicycles taking part?
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The gruelling Tour
de Kaap in February 2009 took
it's
toll. Thomas ended up with
serious pressure wounds and Eugene had to take some time off too.
Stuart of course was in his element and seemingly had a ball.
Read Thomas
Micklem's Report , and there is
a very interesting video that was made on the tour available from
Thomas or Stuart for those interested.
...> read
all about it
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The
Outeniqua Wheelchair
Challenge
(OCC) was held on 14
Feb 2009.
Maybe someone
will send us some
photos or a report??
Link to the
OCC website - http://georgeocc.co.za/
For the
results - see RESULTS
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