Challenge Cape Town postponed

[paulbrit]

Me too...

 

Me three...

[disappointed]

Me three...

I know 6 of us pushing, according to the challenge org they have until end of Feb to refund.

 

I know several folks who have spoken with Grant with mixed responses from def getting a refund to blatent dodging.

 

Hearing suggestion that he is trying to organise a new event at this time also .... very shady Mr K!

 

The challenge guys have also washed their hands of him, but he is still using the email address ....?

 

What an unprofessional outfit!

[Garfield2010]

Any details on this so called "new event"?

 

It will prabably be a triathlon that takes part on top of Table Mountain. They will be building a lake on top of the mountain specifically for this race as well as pave a 90km route.

[Shebeen]

Ultra triathletes around the world have responded in their droves to enter Cape Town’s latest annual sporting event, Challenge Cape Town, scheduled for 6 November.

 

Champions of the 226km iron distance event from Germany,Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Czechoslovakia who travel the world selecting top events in which to compete, have already entered Challenge Cape Town. Many others have made

inquiries.

 

“We are bowled over by the response to the event,” says race director Grant Kunneke. “Our promotional pictures of the course with Table Mountain in the background were placed on the home pages of every major triathlon website in the world. The industry is really excited about racing in Cape Town” says Kunneke.

“These athletes are aware of the Cape Epic and look to Challenge Cape Town to do for triathlon what the Epic has done for mountain bike racing” says Kunneke.

 

The 226km course will take in much of the region’s most spectacular scenery. The 3.8km swim will take place at the Granger Bay on the Atlantic Ocean with its stunning views of Table Bay, Robben Island and Table Mountain. The 180km one-lap bike course promises to be one of the toughest in the Challenge series with over 2,000m of climbing, through the Constantia winelands, including the famous Chapman’s Peak, along the coastal route as it skirts around Table Mountain and heads out to Khayelitsha and the Indian Ocean coastline allowing athletes a taste of the diversity of Cape Town.

 

The marathon starts at the Green Point Stadium precinct, heads into the City Bowl before climbing up the Table Mountain incline on Kloof Road, up and down into Camps Bay with its white sandy beaches fringed by palm trees, followed by a two-loop run along the Atlantic Seaboard finishing back at the Green Point precinct next to the

Cape Town Stadium.

 

The route is novel and testing and based in the heart of Cape Town. It incorporates the cooler waters of Table Bay, the CBD, the wind of the Cape Flats, the entire Peninsula and the steep slopes of Table Mountain. It offers international television crews a visual tabloid of Cape Town like no other.

 

The event becomes the 13th member of the Challenge Family, which has events throughout Europe, Australia the UK and New Zealand.

 

Cape Town was selected as a possible location after its successful hosting of the FIFA 2010 World Cup. The city is regarded as one of the most beautiful in the world with an experience of staging annual mass participation sporting events, like the Cycle Tour, the Two Oceans and the Cape Epic.

 

The hub of the action takes place at the Green Point fields, alongside the Cape Town Stadium where the sophisticated transition areas and finish will be placed.

 

“We expect a field of about 1 000 participants first time round, a third of them being international athletes. A media contingent of +-forty sport and triathlon specific journalists and photographers accompany the group as do many of the Challenge Family members who assist in putting on the event”, says Grant Kunneke.

 

The City of Cape Town has welcomed the project and has been hard at work to ensure road closures, athlete safety and spectator participation. The traffic plan has been submitted and accepted and participants are assured of rolling road closures throughout the cycle route.

 

The Cape Town City Council and its Events Office has been accommodating in planning the logistics of the event. Their assistance has been invaluable and their learning’s from the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour place them in a very advantageous position regarding attracting mass participation events.

 

Challenge Cape Town is also opened to relay participants of three members per team. Challenge Cape Town entries cost R2 990 for individual athletes and R4 500 for relay teams.

 

For entries and further information, please visit

www.challengecapetown.com.

 

Challenge Cape Town is part of the Challenge Family series that features 13 races across three continents, including the world’s largest iron distance triathlon, Challenge Roth in Germany. Other races are Challenge Wanaka (New Zealand), Challenge Fuerteventura and Challenge Barcelona (Spain), Challenge Kraichgau (Germany), Challenge Cairns (Australia), Challenge Copenhagen and Challenge Aarhus (Denmark), Challenge Vichy (France), Challenge Walchsee(Austria) and Challenge Henley-on-Thames (UK). For further information, visit www.challenge-family.com.

 

One thousand solo athletes are expected, a third of whom will be international participants.

 

The event is also open to relay teams of three members.

 

The race starts at 06h00 and closes seventeen hours later with a cut

off at 23h00.

 

The swim follows a 3.8km course in Granger Bay starting from the

Oceana Power Boat Club.

 

The 180km cycle follows the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour

course with an extra leg along the Muizenberg, Strandfontein and

Khayelitsha coastline.

 

The 42km run takes athletes up Kloof Nek Road, into Camps Bay and

follows a looped course along the Atlantic Coastline finishing at

Green Point.

 

For more details and entry forms visit www.challengecapetown.com

Edited February 21, 2012 by SteveCT

[Garfield2010]

Reading it again now I cannot believe that I actually thought this race was going to happen.............. How gullable can one be?

[bradwentzel]

Is this happening in 2012/13?

[davem]

No. Challenge International have withdrawn all support for the event.

 

This event is dead and buried.

[disappointed]

The Challenge Henley Brochure (event last weekend) had a 2 pager on Capetown 2013.

 

So is either lazy printing or its back.

[Garfield2010]

The Challenge Henley Brochure (event last weekend) had a 2 pager on Capetown 2013.

 

So is either lazy printing or its back.

What are the chances you could scan and post that pic here?

[Metzet]

It would be good to have another Ironman distance tri in SA. How about in JHB ?!? tired of travelling to these 1 horse coastal towns..

 

Iron-Cradle of Mankind !

3 laps of the cradle will give you about 180kms,

couple of swim laps with the Hippo

marathon in the cradle

 

done !

Edited October 4, 2012 by Metzet

[JGR]

It would be good to have another Ironman distance tri in SA. How about in JHB ?!? tired of travelling to these 1 horse coastal towns..

 

Iron-Cradle of Mankind !

3 laps of the cradle will give you about 180kms,

couple of swim laps with the Hippo

marathon in the cradle

 

done !

Cape Town itself doesnt have many race and none of any distance anyways. JHB and GP get a ton of races and Durbs is just a 6 hr drive. Full distance IM will alsways be tough - they shuold have started with a 70.3 distance race.

[Seeker911]

It would be good to have another Ironman distance tri in SA. How about in JHB ?!? tired of travelling to these 1 horse coastal towns..

 

Iron-Cradle of Mankind !

3 laps of the cradle will give you about 180kms,

couple of swim laps with the Hippo

marathon in the cradle

 

done !

 

Got to agree here it would be brilliant. The cradles the perfect spot. BUT at 40k's the inner loop is gonna mean 4.5 laps. The run can be a 20 out and back. Tough country though wont be that easy. BUT at least it will be on our back door and easy to get road closure for the day. The farmers not gonna be too happy though. They wont be able to visit tannie sannie after church.

[SwissVan]

Joburg needs its own IM race again (and no the vaal aint in joburg), in fact every SA major city should have one imo....

 

Durban used to have the Southern sun ulltra on the beech front

Joburg / Pretoria the Leppin IM

[davem]

Joburg, even the Cradle would be difficult to get road closure. EL and PE do it because it has such massive tourism revenue relative to city size. The residents welcome us, because it makes them all a little better off. Plus it gives a taster for longer family holidays and more spend. A dynamic that Joburg can't really offer.

 

Because 50% of IM and 70.3 athletes are already from Joburg, you would unlikely get the reverse travel with coastal guys travelling to Joburg.

 

Besides you got Midlands Ultra in KZN twice a year.

[Garfield2010]

DaveM, Imagine 2,000 athletes. So 1,000 are from out of town... Imagine most of them staying in the Cradle. Guys like Valverde are already on board. It could also be a tourism attraction....

 

Screw the distances. Make it unique. Challenge Cradle. 2km swim, 140km bike and 25km run. We cant be full IM racing fit all year.

[Garfield2010]

Even Buffelspoort could be considered for a 3/4 IM or something