THE Bell Big Five MTB Challenge got off to an excellent start on Saturday after the first event, the Zini River Estate Buffalo MTB race, was postponed owing to the heavy rain the previous weekend.
Although the rivers and streams had subsided, there was still plenty of mud through which the riders had to navigate, but this did not put off the speedsters.
PHOTOS: Larry Bentley
Unconfirmed first place in the men’s 50km went to Christian van Dyk in a time of 2:07:37, while the first woman home was Hayley Smith in 2:24:09.
In the 25km race, Sakhile Mthembu (1:07:14) and Frances Janse van Rensburg (1:13:42) took the unconfirmed top places in the men’s and women’s races respectively.
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Results and more photographs will be published in the Zululand Weekender out on Thursday.
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