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The future looks bright at Bellville velodrome

The third round of the Western Province track league took place on Fri, 2 August, at Bellville velodrome. This event was back to back following the one on Friday, 26 July.

It was the second track event at Bellville velodrome under the new LED lights which replaced the existing 30-year old lights that that were at end of lifespan.

This upgrade solidified the Bellville velodrome as the top indoor cycling facility in Africa.

The program was fast and action packed. Racing started at 7pm and ended at 9.30pm. There was racing for category A to E and riders from under 11 up to 75 – 79 competed.

There were several highlights. Here is our top 5:

10km scooter scratch (30 laps scooter and 10 laps scratch) in 11min59s at 50kmh. Carl Bonthuys winning.

The Western Province elite team pursuit squad in action and closing in on 50kmh.

Imtiyaaz “Sparkles” Schultz first cat A win with a long sprint in the 8 laps scratch race.

The Cat D kids racing at 40kmh in their scooter scratch.

Cat E kids start list growing with 2 more riders joining in.

Here is the leader board:

WP track league #3 on 2 Aug 24 – resultsDownload
WP track league 2024 points table after after 3 of 4 eventsDownload

The next event is planned for Friday, 30 August, 2024. Follow WP track on Whatsapp for event updates.

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Photos courtesy of Marc Pentz photography.

WP track league off to a strong start

The first of nine Western Province (WP) league events took place at Bellville velodrome on Wednesday, 1 June.

The event featured an invitation sprint tournament, Category A, Category B, Women’s, veterans and scholars racing.

Team events are back at the league and the program started with team sprints.

DSV team sprint

DSV took the team sprint win ahead of the ASAP team. TrackCyclingSA was third and Active Bodies sport development was fourth.

A 4-lap keirin was run to keep the pace high

The league features a sprint tournament where invited sprinters do battle for the sprint trophy. Jordan September (Kinetic Pro) started the sprint tournament with a win in the keirin and then also set the fastest flying 200m qualifying time. The 3-up match sprint final delivered a surprise. Duwayne Adams (DSV) jumped and held off both Jordan September and Wade Theunissen (Enza) for a convincing match sprint win. Jordan heads the sprint tournament going in to the next round.

Jonathan Bouwer leads the bunch

Category A racing started with a 30-lap tempo race which was won by Jonathan Bouwer (Kinetic pro) at and average speed of 47.3 km/h. The next event was a surprise since the fans voted for it. The riders only heard that it was an elimination scratch when they lined up at the start. It was “bell, off”, “bell, off” unitl 4 riders remained. The 4 riders then had a 4-lap scratch. Linwell Jansen (Enza) took it long to take the win. The final category A event was a 25-lap scratch race and Jonathan Bouwer (Kinetic Pro) was victorious. Jonathan finished on top of the Category A standings at the end of the night.

Maroesjka Matthee is the overall Women’s leader after round 1 of 9 events

Maroesjka Matthee (Reach for Rainbows) took a hat-trick in the Women’s events by winning the 4-lap, 6-lap and tempo races.

Theo Williams (DSV) is leading the Category B field after victories in the 8-lap and tempo races.

John Moss, Russel Mehl and Timothy Mehl

Timothy Mell (Phoenix) leads the veterans category.

Here is the full league table:

Bellville-track-league-1-tableDownload

Here are the individual race results:

WP-track-league-results-1-June-2022Download