With only four weeks remaining for graveleurs to qualify for the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships, the Gravel World Series rolled into Namibia on Saturday for the Khomas 100, which also served as the African Continental Gravel Championships.

For the second year in a row 4X Namibian National Road Champion Alex Miller (SWATT CLUB), 24, won the 155 kilometer long gravel race, crossing the finish triumphantly with an arms-up double fisted salute in 4:39:15, followed closely by Marc Pritzan at 4:40:26 and Jacob Charles Van Dyk at 4:43:01.

2024 Herald Cycle Tour champion Hayley Preen, 27, won the women’s race in 5:36:32, with Anri Greeff and Sonica Klopper rolling in at 5:39:56 and 5:52:24 in that order to step onto the podium.

Both Miller and Preen not only secured starting spots for the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships, they also won African Continental Gravel Champion titles.

The shorter 84 kilometer race came down to a battle between to up-and-coming junior age riders, with Marco Thiel besting Roger Suren in a photo finish sprint after 2:41:43 of racing. Delsia Janse Van Vuuren, also a junior, won the women’s competition in 2:50:34.

Competitors finishing within the top 25% of their UCI age/gender category automatically qualified for the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships taking place in the Netherlands in October.

Complete Khomas 100 gravel results HERE

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