17 Oct 2017

Zanri Roussow and Nalan Hoffman have won the elite women and men’s 106.6 Yarona FM Cycle Challenge respectively and in the process pocketed P10 000 each for their troubles.

With the cycle challenge categorised into two distances of 106km and 60km, the elite women and men’s categories were tasked with the 106km.

Roussow got position one in the elite women’s category in a time of 2:42:58:40 followed by Rozalia Kubyana who clocked 2:56:33:35 and position three went to Bakang Ebudilwe in 3:01:24:24.

Nalan registered 2:29:07:43 to scoop first position seconded by Jayde Julius with 2:29:07:91 and Pieter Seyffert made the top three with a time of 2:29:14:05.

In the youth male category, the boys did the 60km which saw Kopano Kgosibodiba snatching first position with a time of 2:06:15:39.

Bakang Mookodi clocked 2:06:16:82 and Lebopo Mompe did 2:06:16:87 to get position two and three respectively.

B4H BW Cycling Academy hosted the cycling challenge together with Yarona FM.

Speaking during a press conference earlier, Yarona FM station manager, Kelly Ramputswa said the radio station was embarking on the challenge in order to promote health and fitness among Batswana.

B4H BW Cycling Academy representative, David Lebalelo said their duty as a cycling academy was to help Yarona FM in making sure the race was done well.

He said they had decided to take cycling to the people by making the new route pass through the city.

“This time around the route was different as it passed through the middle of the city.

We did not close the roads, but rather we shared them with other users,” he said.

He said they had roped in 150 marshals in order to ensure the safety of cyclists and other road users and that everything went accordingly.

The race started from the Fairgrounds Mall and headed towards Block 9 cycle before going north towards Sebele and onwards to Malotwane.

From Malotwane the cyclists turned left at the Airport junction traffic lights and went towards Gaborone Private Hospital and the UB road back to Fairgrounds Mall. Ends