Three Peaks Challenge

THREE PEAKS EVENTS 2025

Date: Saturday, 1 November 2025

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Three Peaks events!

In 2024 the Three Peaks moved into a new era with the introduction of two new events in addition to the original Challenge, in which participants return to the starting point in the city after each peak.

In the “Classic” event, participants go directly from peak to peak, without returning to the start until after the final peak. The “Chill” relay event is a teams event where three participants make up a team with each person doing one peak.

History was made in the 2024 Three Peaks Challenge, with Lisa Geffen becoming the first woman to be the overall winner in the event, in a time of 6:12:08! The second finisher, and first male, was Ridhaa Fakier, in 6:15:16.

Challenge – Overall winner Lisa Geffen and first male Ridhaa Fakier
Classic – Matt Savage and Chantel Nienaber
Chill Relay – Men’s Legends (AJ Calitz, Matthew Clarke, Andrew Hagen)
Final Results 2024

The overall winner of the 2024 Three Peaks Challenge, Lisa Geffen (6:12:08)

Photos: Barry Washkansky

Ridhaa Fakier, 2nd place and 1st male (6:15:16), and Lisa Geffen, overall winner (6:12:08)

Photo: Barry Washkansky

Men’s and Women’s winners of the Three Peaks Classic, Matt Savage (5:35:44) and Chantel Nienaber (5:53:11)

Photos: Barry Washkansky and Markus Nienaber

Three Peaks instigator and co-organiser, Don Hartley (middle), with Matthew Clarke (left) and Andrew Hagen (right) of team “Men’s Legends”, winners (with AJ Calitz) of the Chill Relay event (4:58:52)

Photo: Barry Washkansky

Congratulations to the men’s and women’s winners of the 2023 Three Peaks Challenge – Matthew Bouch and Steph van Gelderen.
Final Results 2023

The men’s and women’s winners of the 2023 Three Peaks Challenge, each with their winner’s painting by artist and 3P event co-organiser Don Hartley:
Matthew Bouch (5:28:56) and Steph van Gelderen (6:53:34)

Photos: Don Hartley

Congratulations to the men’s and women’s winners of the 2022 Three Peaks Challenge – Pete Calitz and Liz Robertson.
Final Results 2022

The men’s and women’s winners of the 2022 Three Peaks Challenge, each receiving their winner’s painting from artist and 3P event co-organiser Don Hartley:
Pete Calitz (5:53:53) and Liz Robertson (8:18:11)

Congratulations to the men’s and women’s winners of the 2021 Three Peaks Challenge – Luke Roberts and Emily Djock.
Results 2021

The men’s and women’s winners of the 2021 Three Peaks Challenge:
Luke Roberts (5:30:23) and Emily Djock (6:37:01)

Photos: Marian Oliver

Congratulations to the men’s and women’s winners of the 2020 Three Peaks Challenge – Pete Calitz and Jana Trojan.
Results 2020

Jana Trojan, with Don Hartley

Winner, Pete Calitz

Saturday, 2 November 2019 will forever be remembered in South Africa, as the day that the rugby Springboks lifted the Webb Ellis Cup for the third time …

… and for Cape Town’s biggest party since 1995.

Meanwhile, the annals of the historic Three Peaks Challenge will record that, in near-perfect weather conditions, top trail runner Kane Reilly obliterated the existing race record with a display of running never before witnessed on the peaks that make up Table Mountain’s toughest endurance challenge. His time of 4:42,43 was more than seven minutes inside AJ Calitz’s ground-breaking 2012 time.

In a tightly-contested women’s battle, Julika Pahl prevailed over Naomi Brand to set a new women’s record. Both went quicker than Katya Soggot’s 2013 mark.

Record-breaker, Kane Reilly, with runner-up, Pete Calitz (113) and Brendan Lombard, who was third.

Julika Pahl arrives at Greenmarket Square – a new women’s record

Congratulations to all 161 finishers!  FULL RESULTS 2019

Pictures by Erin Wulfsohn