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2025 African Road and Gravel Champion🌍
2026 SA MTB Champ🇿🇦
7x🇿🇦 Champ
🚴🏼‍♀️ Racing for ChemChamp Honeycomb
🚲 Factor Racing
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Alison Jackson, Axelle Dubau-Prévot and Hayley Preen headline Gravel Burn’s Karoo showdown

The 2026 Nedbank Gravel Burn starts in Robert Sobukwe Town / Graaff-Reinet on 25 October, with a pro field bringing Classics pedigree, gravel firepower and South African interest to the Great Karoo.

Click the link in our bio to read the story. Two cyclists riding gravel bikes on a dirt road bordered by scrubby vegetation.

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@hayleypreen wraps up the LifeTime Grand Prix Series in 2nd Overall! 🥈🔥

We’re incredibly proud of you and can’t wait to see you back racing on home soil next week @gravel_burn 🇿🇦🙌🏼

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RSA 🇿🇦

Defending the title on home soil, the best of the best on SA gravel racing will line up this week to challenge for the title.

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Matt Beers
- 2025 Nedbank Gravel Burn Winner
- 4x Cape Epic Winner
- 2x South African Gravel Champion

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Hayley Preen
- 3rd 2025 Nedbank Gravel Burn
- 2x African Gravel Champion
- 2025 South African Gravel Champion

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Marco Joubert
- 7th 2025 Nedbank Gravel Burn
- 2025 South African Gravel Champion
- 3rd 2025 Cape Epic

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Travis Stedman
- 6th 2025 Nedbank Gravel Burn
- 2026 Sani2c Race Winner
- 2025 African Continental Champion

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Tristan Nortje
- 2026 Cape Epic Winner
- 4th 2025 Nedbank Gravel Burn

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Maddie Le Roux
- 9th Overall 2026 Tour Cyclist International Féminin Du Burundi
- 2023 Zwift Academy Winner

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Luke Moir
- 2x African Continental Champion
- 3rd 2024 UCI World Cup Mont-Sainte-Anne U23
- 9th 2024 U23 XCO World Championship

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Marc Pritzen
- 2026 Cape Pioneer Winner
- 3x South African XCM Champion
- 2026 Cape Epic Stage Winner

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Ryan Gibbons
- Ex World Tour Rider
- 2x South African ITT Champion
- 2x South African Road Champion

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@stellalou2 timed her winning move to perfection @bigsugarclassic. Well done!

The day started cold by the elite racers turned on the heat. Lots of action at the end of the race season for all of the athletes in the @lifetimegrandprix series. Congratulations to all of the racers for a year filled with incredible racing. Time for the well deserved off season.

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Your 2026 Big Sugar Gravel Top 5! 👑

Stella Hobbs claims the victory for the women and Tobias Kongstad takes the men’s win after an all-out day of racing through 100 miles of Ozark gravel.

Congratulations to our champions and every athlete who made this year’s Big Sugar one to remember.

We’re already looking forward to next year 🤘🍬

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I won a really big bike race yesterday.

I did it by riding defensively and making the terrain work for me. I rode free, uncaged, without expectation and with trust in myself.

And I cannot believe that it worked.

A tremendous thank you to @willismcgee123 for the support all season long and throughout this weekend. Success would be impossible without your dedication and help.
Deep gratitude to @mattyb.mt for sharing so many miles with me and for seeing me as a bike racer and helping me lean into that identity.
A congratulations to @eric_sammuli for taking me on as an athlete this year and giving me structure while also letting me explore my terrain based riding potential.
Thank you to @tailwindnutrition for effective and tasty fuel all season long.
Thank you to @maap.cc for creating a family environment and for helping me find my place in this discipline.
Thank you to @envecomposites for beautiful and effective equipment.
And immense appreciation to @ensomentalperformance for being a consistent voice in my head of self trust.

Happy happy birthday to my mom @mamoholt and thank you for sharing this weekend with me.

There’s so much more to say. We’ll get there. Soaking up the feeling of freedom for now. 🪄

Photo 1, 3 @velophoto.tx
Photo 2, 4 @gpowersfilm

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And that’s a wrap on the 2026 Life Time Grand Prix.

After six stops and a constantly changing leaderboard, the racing was tighter than ever. It all came down to Big Sugar Gravel, where Keegan Swenson claimed the overall title by just ONE point.

Congratulations to all the athletes and the top-10 who earned an automatic invitation into the 2027 Series. Thank you to the athletes, fans, and community who made 2026 one to remember.

On to the next.

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Big Sugar Classic in B&W. Last one of the year.

Stella Hobbs took the win today, and I don’t think anyone at the finish wasn’t yelling for her. Hard to imagine a better way to close out the Lifetime Grand Prix.

Thanks to every rider who let me get a camera in their face this season. See you all at Sea Otter 2027

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South African Gravel Champion, Hayley Preen, finished third against a strong field at Big Sugar Gravel at Bentonville, Arkansas on Saturday.
American, Stella Hobbs, broke away alone to win the 100-mile race in a time of 5hr 10min 34sec. A bunch sprint decided the remaining podium places with Argentina’s Sofia Gomez Villafane leading the field home in 5:12:18 and Preen third in 5:12:19.
Big Sugar Gravel was the sixth and final round of the 2026 Life Time Grand Prix, the world’s most prestigious off-road cycling series.
Preen’s third place in the final race sees her finish second overall behind Gomez Villafane in the 2026 standings, a truly remarkable achievement.

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Gravel Burn 2026: previa, start list y etapas.

Gravel Burn 2026: Preview, Start List and Stages.

@gravel_burn

🇪🇸 El 25 de octubre comienza la segunda edición de Gravel Burn, impulsada por los creadores de la Cape Epic. Su estreno nos dejó uno de los desenlaces del año: Axelle Dubau-Prévôt remontó casi nueve minutos en la última etapa para proclamarse campeona. En 2026 se repartirán 155.000 dólares en premios, a partes iguales entre hombres y mujeres Pro.

🇬🇧 The second Gravel Burn starts on 25 October, organised by the team behind the Cape Epic. Its debut delivered one of the year’s most dramatic finishes: Axelle Dubau-Prévôt clawed back almost nine minutes on the final stage to take the overall win. In 2026, $155,000 in prize money will be split equally between Pro Men and Pro Women.

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Seven days. One seriously wild ride across the Great Karoo. 🔥
The Nedbank Gravel Burn 2026 brings the world’s gravel-loving pros and passionate amateurs together for a week of gravel racing at its best.
We’ve picked our “FAVOURITES” (and see if you can spot the Dark Horse).
Who should we keep our eyes on this year?
#NovaChocolate #GuiltFreePleasure #Favourites #GravelBurn #Nedbank @gravel_burn @mattbeers55 @hayleypreen @ryangibbons23 @simon_pellaud @axelledubauprevot @aliactionjackson @wessel_vd_merwe @gavhort2

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For us, Race to the Sea marked the start of a new chapter and we couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve created.

A lot of time, hard work, and passion went into bringing this one to life, and this is only the beginning.

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