Two Oceans the pick of upcoming events
The Week Ahead
April 12-19
THE Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon takes place on Saturday in Cape
Town.
The marathon attracts some 20 000 participants who take on 56km of open road and challenging mountain climbs.
An interesting feature of the route of the Two Oceans Marathon is that it passes both oceans surrounding the South African shoreline, the Indian and Atlantic oceans. It is therefore as stunning as it is challenging.
The Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals clash
will be the 17th match of this season’s IPL campaign.
The T20 league battle will be played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, today at 4pm (SA time).
The Super Kings team will be captained by MS Dhoni and the Royals will be captained by Sanju Samson.
Red Bull Car Park Drift
returns to Durban for the third year running.
Drifters from all over the country will head down to Suncoast and be put through their paces on Friday and Saturday. The top 16 will be selected to compete for the title on Saturday.
The 2023 national winner will represent South Africa at the world final in Qatar later in the year.
Sharks
The Sharks and Benetton will face off at Hollywoodbets Kings Park in round 17 of the United Rugby Championship on Friday at 6.30pm. The Sharks are eighth in the 16-team standings, one place ahead of the Italian visitors.
Tonight’s Uefa Champions League matches:
Real Madrid v Chelsea, 9pm; AC Milan v Napoli, 9pm
Thursday’s big match in the Uefa Europa League:
Manchester United v Sevilla, 9pm
Tour Durban and N Coast Challenger join ROAG Series
The 2023 Quattro ROAG KZN MTB Marathon Series welcomes two exciting new mountain-bike racing events into the fold over the next few weeks when the Tour Durban MTB race joins the roster alongside the series’ first stage race, the North Coast Challenger.
The 2023 series kicked off with two double-header events in February and March – the Illovo Wartburg and Shongweni events, which also wrapped up the 2022/23 Quattro ROAG Series powered by Momentum.
Those results confirmed Hayley Smith and Stuart Marais as the 2022 MTB women’s and men’s champions, while Brett and Sarah Gray were crowned as the trail running champions. The events were also the opening events of the renamed 2023 Quattro ROAG KZN MTB Marathon Series that brings on board KZN Cycling’s MTB Commission as an official series partner.
The new name and the union with KZN MTB are not the only changes, however, with two exciting new events joining the event roster and adding an extra element to the series.
From April 14-16, the Emilgroup/Ergon North Coast Challenger at Holla Trails becomes the first multi-day stage race to be part of the series. The three-day mountain-bike racing and two-day trail running event has long and short race options, so it caters for all the age groups and thus is able to be used for points for all categories of the series.