African Mountain Bike Championships

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The Union Cycliste Internationale African Mountain Bike Championships (French : Championnat d'Afrique de VTT) is the highest echelon of Mountain Bike racing on the African continent. First held in 2007 at Windhoek, Namibia the event has been contested every year since. It is ruled and managed by the African Cycling Confederation. Over the years top riders from South Africa, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, Mauritius, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe have attended this prestigious race. The championships are an Olympic qualifying event.

Editions[]

Editions Year Host Country Host City
I  Namibia Windhoek
II  South Africa
III  South Africa Cape Town
IV  Mauritius
V  South Africa Pietermaritzburg
VI  South Africa Cape Town
VII  Rwanda Musanze
VIII  Lesotho Afriski
IX  Mauritius Bel-Ombre

Men's summary[]

Elites[]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2007 South Africa Burry Stander South Africa Namibia Mannie Heymans
2009 Namibia Marc Bassingthwaighte South Africa South Africa
2011 South Africa Burry Stander Namibia Marc Bassingthwaighte South Africa Philip Buys
2012 South Africa Philip Buys Namibia Marc Bassingthwaighte Rwanda Adrien Niyonshuti
2013 South Africa Philip Buys Mauritius Yannick Lincoln Namibia
2014 South Africa Philip Buys South Africa South Africa
2015 South Africa James Reid South Africa South Africa
2016 South Africa Philip Buys South Africa James Reid South Africa
2017 South Africa Alan Hatherly South Africa Mauritius Yannick Lincoln
2018 South Africa Alan Hatherly South Africa Namibia Till Drobisch
2019 South Africa Alan Hatherly South Africa Philip Buys Namibia Alex Miller

Under 23[]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2009 South Africa Burry Stander South Africa South Africa
2011 South Africa James Reid South Africa South Africa
2012 South Africa South Africa South Africa James Reid
2013 South Africa Brendon Davids South Africa James Reid South Africa
2014 South Africa James Reid South Africa Brendon Davids South Africa
2016 South Africa Alan Hatherly South Africa South Africa
2017 Namibia Tristan De Lange Lesotho South Africa
2018 South Africa Namibia Tristan de Lange South Africa
2019 South Africa South Africa South Africa

Juniors[]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2007 South Africa Namibia Namibia
2009 South Africa James Reid South Africa South Africa
2011 South Africa Brendon Davids South Africa South Africa
2012 South Africa Patrick Belton South Africa South Africa
2013 South Africa Namibia Martin Freyer South Africa
2014 South Africa South Africa South Africa Alan Hatherly
2015 Namibia Tristan De Lange Namibia South Africa
2016 Namibia South Africa South Africa
2017 South Africa South Africa Namibia
2018 Namibia Alex Miller South Africa South Africa
2019 South Africa South Africa South Africa

Women's summary[]

Elites[]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2007 South Africa Yolande Speedy South Africa South Africa
2012 South Africa Mauritius Aurélie Halbwachs Namibia Heletje Van Staden
2013 South Africa Yolande Speedy Mauritius Aurélie Halbwachs South Africa Samantha Sanders
2014 South Africa Mariske Strauss South Africa Samantha Sanders South Africa
2015 South Africa South Africa Namibia Michelle Vorster
2016 South Africa Mariske Strauss South Africa Namibia Michelle Vorster
2017 Namibia Michelle Vorster Mauritius Aurelie Halbwachs Lesotho
2018 South Africa Kenya Tunisia
2019 South Africa Mariske Strauss South Africa South Africa Candice Lill

Under 23[]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2013 South Africa Mariske Strauss South Africa Candice Neethling Namibia Vera Adrian
2014 South Africa Candice Neethling South Africa South Africa
2016 South Africa South Africa South Africa
2017 Zimbabwe
2018 Zimbabwe Egypt Egypt
2019 Zambia

Juniors[]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2007 South Africa South Africa
2012 South Africa South Africa South Africa
2013 South Africa South Africa South Africa
2014 South Africa South Africa Mauritius Kimberly Le Court de Billot
2015 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
2016 South Africa South Africa South Africa
2017
2018 Algeria Morocco Algeria
2019 South Africa South Africa South Africa

Team Cross-country[]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2016  Namibia
Michelle Vorster
Costa Seibeb

Tristan De Lange 		 Lesotho



Phetetso Monese 		 Zimbabwe



2017

Cross-Country Marathon[]

Men[]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2016 Mauritius Yannick Lincoln Namibia Lesotho Phetetso Monese
2017 South Africa Mauritius Yannick Lincoln Morocco Adil Jelloul

Women[]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2016 South Africa South Africa
2017 Mauritius Aurelie Halbwachs Zimbabwe Mauritius

Climbing[]

Men[]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2012 Mauritius Mauritius Mauritius
2014 South Africa South Africa South Africa
2016 South Africa South Africa South Africa

Women[]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2014 South Africa
2016 South Africa

References[]

External links[]


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