There had been loads of acquainted – and well-known – faces noticed alongside the route of Sunday’s Cape Town Cycle Tour.
One of these was Cape Town-born Reg Bamford.
Bamford, now 56, took on the problem of the 109km route, crossing the end line in a time of 5:56:28 in line with the official SportSplits monitoring app.
When he’s not placing his foot to the pedal, Bamford is an internationally famend identify within the sport of croquet.
Bamford has dominated world croquet in current many years, having first competed on the highest degree within the mid-Eighties.
He is the one participant to have received each variations of the World Championships (Golf Croquet and Association Croquet) and held each titles concurrently in 2013.
Bamford has received the Association Croquet World Croquet Championship 5 instances (2001, 2005, 2009, 2012 and 2020), and the WCF World Golf Croquet Championship twice (2013 and 2017).
He has received the British AC Open Championship 12 instances and the British GC Open Championship 12 instances, the premier occasions within the UK of every code.
He was ranked twenty ninth within the 100 Best Sportspeople within the World for the yr 2020 by Sports Media.
Off the sporting subject, Bamford is a certified Chartered Accountant having accomplished his articles at Deloitte South Africa in 1992.
He went on to determine Sable International, an organization that gives companies to expats and high-net-worth people.
Meanwhile, as reported by The South African web site, Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis was additionally among the many tens of hundreds of cyclists to sort out Sunday’s forty sixth version of the Cape Town Cycle Tour.
Premier of the Western Cape, Alan Winde, additionally took to the beginning line to finish a tour of the peninsula, as did two-time Rugby World Cup-winning Springbok star, Damian Willemse.
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