At first glance Sally Bigham might be taken for the university researcher that she was when the mountain biking bug bit in 2006. But the 1.65m and 52kg Englishwoman has since earned herself the nickname of “Iron Sally” for her extraordinary feats on a mountain bike. These include two wins in the Women’s category at the rugged Absa Cape Epic – in 2011 with South African Karien van Jaarsveld and the following year with Switzerland’s Esther Süss. She and Suss rode together again in 2014, finishing second to the Swiss/Danish combination of Ariane Kleinhans and Annika Langvad. Click here to view the article
