Sable International CEO completes Cape Town Cycle Tour
Reg Bamford, Sable International’s CEO completed the Cape Town Cycle Tour yesterday. Read more here.
There were plenty of familiar – and famous – faces spotted along the route of Sunday’s Cape Town Cycle Tour.
One of those was Cape Town-born Reg Bamford.
Bamford, now 56, took on the challenge of the 109km route, crossing the finish line in a time of 5:56:28 according to the official SportSplits tracking app.
When he’s not putting his foot to the pedal, Bamford is an internationally renowned name in the sport of croquet.
Bamford has dominated world croquet in recent decades, having first competed at the highest level in the mid-1980s.
He is the only player to have won both versions of the World Championships (Golf Croquet and Association Croquet) and held both titles simultaneously in 2013.
Bamford has won the Association Croquet World Croquet Championship five times (2001, 2005, 2009, 2012 and 2020), and the WCF World Golf Croquet Championship twice (2013 and 2017).
He has won the British AC Open Championship 12 times and the British GC Open Championship 12 times, the premier events in the UK of each code.
He was ranked 29th in the 100 Best Sportspeople in the World for the year 2020 by Sports Media.
Off the sporting field, Bamford is a qualified Chartered Accountant having completed his articles at Deloitte South Africa in 1992.
He went on to establish Sable International, a company that offers services to expats and high-net-worth individuals.
Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis was also among the tens of thousands of cyclists to tackle Sunday’s 46th edition of the Cape Town Cycle Tour.
Premier of the Western Cape, Alan Winde, also took to the start line to complete a tour of the peninsula, as did two-time Rugby World Cup-winning Springbok star, Damian Willemse.
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