Tsogo Sun Amashova Durban Classic launches 160km route
This year also marks its recognition as a race of international significance, through its inclusion in the Gran Fondo World Tour.
SOUTH Africa’s oldest classic cycle race, the Tsogo Sun Amashova Durban Classic, has been reinvented with the inclusion of a 160km route for the first time in its history.
This year also marks its recognition as a race of international significance, through its inclusion in the Gran Fondo World Tour.
Tsogo Sun Amashova Durban Classic, race director, Annie Batchelder said, “We are really excited about adding the very challenging 160km route to our already popular 106km, 65km and 35km race distances.
Not only will the Tsogo Sun Amashova be one of the very few races in South Africa to offer this kind of extreme distance, but the hills and overall profile of the Richmond area will, in its own right, push the limits of the brave cyclists prepared to take on the challenge.”
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The new 160km route will have the same starting point as the 106km route in front of Pietermaritzburg’s City Hall but cyclists will do an additional 44km loop via Richmond before re-joining the famous Comrades Marathon route from Pietermaritzburg to Durban.
The announcement that this popular annual Durban-based race will form part of the Gran Fondo World Tour was met with much excitement.
According to organisers of the Gran Fondo World Tour, the Tsogo Sun Amashova race will close off the 10-event tour, which takes place over eight months on four continents. Entries are open to anyone with a bike.
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