Modern Athlete Magazine Issue 76, November 2015 | 页面 58

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nyone who’s ever been awarded the coveted Charles Milner Award will
know the blood, sweat and tears, not to mention sheer guts, that are spent
in pursuit of this illustrious accolade.

For it’s the Milner Award that is given to teams where all 12 members cross the
finishing line within 15 minutes of each other in the fabled Coronation Double
Century cycling race.
The Coronation Double Century began life as a non-competitive day in the
saddle among long-time cycling chums. And it is a Stellenbosch wine farmer,
and fanatical cyclist – he’s a 32-race veteran of the Cape Town Cycle Tour – by
the name of Charles Milner who is traditionally considered the ‘founding father’
of what has grown to be one of the country’s most prestigious, challenging and
scenic cycling races.
Back in the early 1990s, the cycling fraternity in Milner’s southern Cape farming
circle believed there was a market for a “double century” on the cycling
calendar because at the time the longest race was the “One Tonner” of
around 150 kilometres.
For a challenging day out, Milner and his cycling fraternity would ride from his
Klapmuts wine farm, Nattevallej via Franschhoek, Vi Y\