Tiffany powers forward

TIFFANY Keep claimed the top women title after she took the sixth position overall after racing in the B Batch race in the KZN Mountain Bike Lap Series Challenge at Cascades in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday.

Tiffany finished in a superb sixth position overall and the Thomas More matric learner was three minutes ahead of Frances Janse van Rensburg, who was seventh overall in the event and Nadine Nunes was third a lap down.

Keep’s win, her second of the series after she won the opening leg at Shongweni in February, ensured she ended up as the top women overall with 200 points, with Janse van Rensburg second on 186 and Bateson third, just two points further behind.

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In the A Batch, Stuart Marais powered away from Henry Liebenberg on the final lap of the race to claim the race win and snatch the series title overall.

The Howick resident was locked in a no-quarters-asked battle with Liebenberg and they matched each other surge for surge over the first five of six laps.

Series leader on the start line, Jedson Tooms, finished 10th to claim third on the log while second-placed Travis Stedman was unable to ride on Sunday due to injury.

Komborero Bere finished third on Sunday, three minutes behind Marais and just less than a minute ahead of fourth placed Brennan Anderson, with Mboneni Ngcobo claiming fifth just under a minute further back.

In the C Batch race, Chloe Bateson was fourth overall to claim top spot among the women in that race, which effectively meant she was fourth in the women’s event for the day.

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