Three elite runners off to world champs
Three Sa OCR athletes through to world champs.
THOMAS van Tonder from the South and Jay Jay Deysel are ready for the Obstacle Course Race World Championships this month in Canada after their Jeep Warrior Black Ops Elite win and third place at race six in Nelspruit.
OCR Team South Africa will be amongst the world’s finest athletes when the toughest and strongest athletes from across the globe fight it out at the third OCR World Championships from October 14 to 16 at the Blue Mountain Resort, Toronto in Ontario.
From the 116 South African qualifiers across all three elite categories namely Rookie Elite, Commando Elite and Black Ops Elite, South Africa has selected a “big six” South African Black Ops Elite Team including Thomas van Tonder (Jeep Team), Bradley Claase, and Jay Jay Deysel (Jeep Team) for men and Hanneke Dannhauser, Carina Marx (Jeep Team) and Sabrina Daolio for women.
To qualify for the OCR World Champs, athletes needed to achieve a Jeep Warrior Top 20 finish in an elite category in their gender, or an Impi Challenge Top 20 finish in the elite division in their gender.
While the OCR World Championship course will share some of the same terrain and obstacles our South African team will be used to, a significant portion of the course and obstacles will be new to most foreign athletes and unveiled only on race weekend.
