Team Pragma Volcan Ladies Hanlie Booyens

Team Pragma Volcan Ladies
Hanlie Booyens and Sharon Laws will be competing in the Ladies
Category at the 2013 ABSA Cape Epic.
“It will be a reunion, an anniversary of the start of a great friendship and a
thank you for 10 years of solid bike racing! A podium spot will be a
fantastic bonus but in all honesty we’re here to celebrate the 10th
anniversary being the ladies winners of that very first Absa Cape Epic!”
Hanlie Booyens
If exceptional is an option good is not enough!
Born a little over competitive Hanlie Booyens’ life is a continues balancing act
between her professional career as an architect, the challenges she sets for herself
on the sport front and having enough down time with friends, family and her little Jack
Russell - Danielle. Her love for the outdoors remains the driving force behind endless
hours spent on bikes, on trails and in the mountains. Even when she stops racing she
hopes that she will always be healthy enough to get out there - a lot!
Sport CV:
Hanlie has been competing at the highest level in South Africa for nearly 10 years.
Winning her 1st SA XC MTB title in 2003 and representing South Africa as a road
cyclist and mountain biker overseas on a number of occasions.
She has completed the ABSA Cape Epic 5 times.
2004 - 1st Ladies
2005 - 2nd Ladies
2008 - 4th Ladies
2009 - 1st Ladies
2011 - 3rd Ladies
“Winning the Epic twice have definitely been some of my sport career highlights.”
Other notable performances:
G4 International Finalist 2009
Winner Total Sport Challenge 2007 and 2010
Winner of the Big 5 Challenge in Knysna 2010 & 2011
3rd Transalps Mountain bike Stage Race. 2004
Hanlie at Ride the Rock in
the Cederberg
SA & African Continental XCountry mountain bike champ. 2003 & 2004
Mazda Drifter Series winner. 2004
Winner Sani2C 2008, 2nd 2010, 3rd 2011
Winner Wines2Whales mixed 2009, 2nd ladies 2010, 2nd mixed 2011
Winner of Sabie Experience ladies 2011
2nd twice at the Southern Storm. 2009 & 2010
Winner of Grape Escape ladies 2012
2nd Ride the Rock ladies 2012
Hanlie has also completed the Comrades, Two Oceans, Ironman and Dusi.
Sharon Laws
Sharon Laws is a global citizen who currently rides as a British professional cyclist
for AA Drink– leontien.nl. She is an environmental advisor for the mining company,
Rio Tinto, in Australia. She was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and has lived in Uganda,
South Africa, Zimbabwe and the UK.
Sharon previously competed in adventure racing and endurance mountain biking. She
won the eight-day Cape Epic mountain-bike race in South Africa in 2004 and 2009.
She began riding on the road to train for mountain biking and her form on the road
was confirmed when she moved to Australia. She was approached to ride for
Australia after coming second in the national championship in Ballarat, but the British
official, Dave Brailsford, signed her for Team Halfords Bikehut.
Laws at the 2012 Women's
Tour of Thuringia
Sport CV
2012
1st British National Road Race Championships
2010
1st Stage 1, Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin Team Time Trial
1st Stage 1, Tour Cycliste Féminin International
2009
1st Cape Epic mountain-bike race (SA) (8 day MTB International stage race, female pair)
2008
2nd Australian National Road Race Championships, Ballarat (AUS)
1st Cheshire Classic (GBR)
2nd Stage 1, Cheshire Classic (GBR)
1st Stage 2, Cheshire Classic (GBR)
1st Olveston Women's Road Race (GBR)
2nd Stage 6, Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin, Axat (FRA)
2nd Stage 6, Tour Cycliste Féminin International Ardèche
1st British National Time Trial Championships
2007
1st Tour of Bright (road, elite women)
5th (fastest 22 km MTB leg) Anaconda Adventure Race (solo women)
1st Gravity 12 hour (MTB enduro, mixed pair)
2nd Chase the Sun 5 hour (MTB enduro, female solo)
3rd Tour of Coleraine (road, elite women)
1st Big Hill event (MTB enduro, elite women)
2nd Mars Challenge (21km run, 80 km ride, 30 km paddle, female solo)
2006
5th TransAlps (8 day MTB International stage race, female pair)
6th Grand Raid Crist Alp, Switzerland (MTB 130 km, elite women)
2004
1st Cape Epic mountain-bike race (SA) (8 day MTB International stage race, female pair)
8th Cape Argus, (SA)