Matthew Beers
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Nov 2, 2026
Simon RichardsonHOST
Onto what's happened in the past week's racing.
Simon RichardsonHOST
Matt Beers successfully defended his gravel burn title in South Africa's Great Karoo, while Nele Lang dominated the women's race.
Simon RichardsonHOST
The events provided another reminder of gravel racing's growing international profile.
Simon RichardsonHOST
Beers secured his second consecutive gravel burn title by finishing 32 seconds ahead of Filippo Colombo, with Tristan Noce third at 59 seconds on GC after seven days of racing.
speaker_0HOST
The Nedbank gravel burn wrapped up yesterday in South Africa.
speaker_0HOST
Matt Beers defended his title in the men's race, so that's back to back.
speaker_0HOST
In the women's race, Neela Lange led from start to finish, wire to wire.
speaker_0HOST
The final stage was meant to be longer.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
to overturn the time deficits on the gravel roads of the beautiful Shamwari Private Game Reserve.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
Hugo Dreschew and Alexa Skada took the stage wins, but it was the overall win for the big South African out of Cape Town, Matt Beers.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
He took his second consecutive title at the Nedbank Gravel Burn in the pro women's race, Nellie Lang.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
completed a full week in the leaders jersey and she took second on the final stage to take the title and then second place was hayley preen of south africa and entries will open if you're interested in doing that race there's a lot of capetonians that go out there and enjoy it in the age groupers the entries open on the 5th of november for the next year's netbank gravel burn and you can jump onto their website gravel-burn.com to go and get more details that is it from me for today have yourselves a great sunday and i'll be back again next week cheers for now
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
2026 Nedbank Gravel Burn into its final stage this morning.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
South African Matt Beers started the final stage today in the big five game reserve at Shamwari in the leaders' orange jersey.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
They started the week in the dry plains around Crawford Net.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
They're now well and truly in game country, but with just a 32-second gap on GC.
Dan LloydHOST
Anyway, stage one was won by Mattia Di Marchi on the Mensai, apparently attacked with five Ks to go, whilst Nila Lang of Canyon outspreaded Alexis Skada of Scott in the women's race on the opening day.
Conor DunneHOST
On stage two though, reigning champion Matt Beers went on the attack on the very first climb, taking Filippo Colombo with him.
Conor DunneHOST
They were never caught and it was Colombo who won the sprint to the line.
Conor DunneHOST
There's no new GC as we record this, but given that they were over a minute ahead of anyone else, it's likely one of them will be leading overall.
Matt BeersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was, yeah, I did the lion's share of the work, and then, yeah, at the end, just lost the sprint to Filippo, but probably in the jersey now, but... yeah
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
as it is felipo colombo with just around 70 meters to go has a five meter lead over matt pierce he looks over he cannot make that gap can matt beers it'll be felipo colombo who will take the stage win today
DaveHOST
Hayley Preen, most decorated South African cyclist, certainly at the moment, maybe ever.
DaveHOST
Hayley Preen, thank you.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
750 kilometers over seven days with a finish line at Shamwari Game Reserve.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
And defending champion from Cape Town, Matt Beers, is back.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
So is Axel de Bouw-Prevost, the ladies' defending champion.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
And as I said, some of the biggest names in cycling and And from the past, Enrico Mancini, Andreas Seewald, he's there as well.
DaveHOST
you know, paying, um, race series for gravel in the world.
DaveHOST
Um, Matt beers takes part in that quite successfully, um, among other South Africans and Haley was, it was just so flipping cool.
DaveHOST
Um, um to see hayley having so much screen time i mean she's literally in the thick of the race um you're listening to the commentators talk about hayley she's developed this personality in the race like they know her they know how she races you know they're familiar with the rest of the results they know what she's done in south africa um Haley, it was just flipping cool and a really proud moment as an African watching that, hearing them speak about you in the context of the best female gravel racers in the world.
DaveHOST
It was really, really, really cool.
12 MINS LATER
DaveHOST
But basically to dedicate a production team seven days a week to our local racing scene.
DaveHOST
You know, you need to thematically track specific series, road, gravel, mountain biking as an example, and go and cover every day of the week the different people that make this up.
DaveHOST
Not just the elites, you know, Pritsons, Hubert's, Tristons, and Matt Beers', although those would naturally be part of the narrative we want to form.
DaveHOST
But, you know, the top A-batch riders, male, female, B-batch, find the narrative that exists because I know that it's there.
Sarah SturmHOST
Like, do you go to this race that's the furthest away, potentially? Yeah.
Sarah SturmHOST
Anyway, so Keegan and Sophia and then Matt Beers dropped out.
Sarah SturmHOST
of the grand prix oh
Hannah SturmHOST
wow
JoshyGUEST
And I was just telling you guys how I was a rag doll on stage eight.
JoshyGUEST
Like, I don't know, I can navigate my way to a finish sometimes, but I was like, holy crap, I'm going to be up against like Florian Vermesh, Matt Beers, Keegan Swenson.
JoshyGUEST
And I was like, oh, these guys are pretty good.
JoshyGUEST
And we've got 3,600 meters of climbing over 142K.
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