Fairbairn Private Bank cycling team's young star
The Fairbairn Private Bank Cycling Team (Team
FPB) is fast becoming a force to be reckoned with in the cycling
fraternity in South Africa, and a significant contributor to this
success is our young star Craig Boyes.
Team FPB was formed earlier this year with a
newly formed team participating in the gruelling eight-day Cape
Epic Mountainbike race, and has subsequently grown in stature and
team members, and with it garnered a string of successes in cycling
and multisport. During this period Team FPB with the help of
ATC Multisport, South Africa’s largest multisport club, have
actively sought to identify young athletes with potential, and
assist in some small way in developing this sporting
talent.
In line with this program, 19 year-old Craig
joined the Team some there months ago. He has been a keen
cyclist from an early age and over the past few years has become a
familiar face at the front of the field in Western Cape
Mountainbiking events. His dedication to cycling has helped
him overcome some life challenges and we are pleased that his
training and sheer drive is responsible for putting Team FPB on the
podium in the most recent races of the season.
When not working hard to complete his final
year of school, he is on his mountainbike or training with his
coach, Line Griffiths, who has also works with the World Champion
Bulls Mountainbike Team. Craig’s most recent podium
achievement was at the National Cross-Country Mountainbiking
Championships. He will be joined for the remainder of the
season by an additional development athlete as Team FPB take on the
Karoo to Coast Mountainbike Race and the Cape Pioneer Stage
Race. He will also be part of a Fairbairn Private Bank team
in the highly competitive Coronation Double Century Cycle Race next
month, where some of South Africa’s top multisport athletes have
joined the Team as guests for this 12-person team endurance
race.
Team FPB continues to raise the Bank’s profile
in the very popular local cycling and multisport arena, as well as
the associated charities which Team FPB supports in South
Africa.