Supa Piet set to defend his Para-cycling World Championships title
Pieter du Preez won the gold medal in the men’s H1 cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympic Games last year.
Pieter du Preez competing at the 2021 Para-Cycling Road World Championships in Cascais, Portugal. Picture: Olga Dyżakowska/ Facebook
JOHANNESBURG - Paralympic champion and defending World Champion Pieter du Preez, affectionately known as Supa Piet, is competing at the UCI Para-cycling World Championships in Baie-Comeau, Canada from 11 – 14 August.
The quadriplegic will compete in his time trial on Friday and his road race on Saturday.
Du Preez won the gold medal in the men’s H1 cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympic Games last year.
The actuarial analyst at Deloitte South Africa took part in the Para-cycling National Championships earlier this year where he retained his national champion title.
Supa Piet who was nominated for the Laureus World Sports Awards in 2016, has won the Berlin Marathon more than six times and is a multiple African and world record holder, a world champion, and he only has 15% of the muscle function of an able-bodied person due to a cycling accident in 2003.
He was also the first quadriplegic in the world to take part in and complete the Ironman triathlon in 2013.
With his eyesight deteriorating du Preez has aspirations of heading to Paris for the Paralympic Games in 2024.
The para-cycling action in Baie-Comeau will be live streamed here.