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GOING PLACES . . . Young Zimbabwean female motocross rider Tanya Muzinda’s profile is expected to grow when she visits Germany for a month-long training stint in April next year

Collin Matiza Sports Editor
THE country’s premier motorcycling event — the Zimbabwe Summer Series — will be held over three days at Donnybrook in December.
Traditionally, the Zimbabwe Summer Series, which is a motocross competition, is held over four days during the second week of December and it comprises of two Supercross (night racing) and an equal number of motocross (day racing) events.
But Shaun Whyte, the chairman of the Bogwheelers Club, who run the motorcycling sport of motocross in this country, recently said they were going to break with tradition and the Zimbabwe Summer Series will this year be staged over three days on December 10, 12 and 14 at Donnybrook in Harare.

“This year’s Summer Series will be held over three days and we will be having two Supercross events and one motocross event. This will enable us to accommodate more foreign riders as most of them complained in the past that the four days of competition were too much for them,” Whyte said.

The Zimbabwe Summer Series is an annual event which attracts top international motocross riders from the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Botswana and Zambia.

Meanwhile, rising female motocross rider Tanya Muzinda (10) is set to get international exposure when she travels to Germany in April next year for a month-long training stint.

Muzinda’s proposed trip to the European country is being facilitated GeBe Foundation, who are based in Cape Town, South Africa, and run by Bernd Wulffen of Germany.

GeBe Foundation, through Wulffen, recently indicated that they would like to invite Muzinda to go to Germany for a training stint during next year’s first-term schools holiday where she will be attached to one of the top motocross clubs in that country.

Muzinda, a Grade Five pupil at Eaglesvale Primary School in Harare, is also the EU’s honorary Ambassador for Youth, Gender, Sports and Development in Zimbabwe.
And the young, talented female motocross rider’s profile is set to grow much bigger when she embarks on a one-month training stint in Germany in April next year, courtesy of the GeBe Foundation.

“Tanya will be going to Germany in April 2015 and she is likely to be attached to Kosak Racing Club and a motocross school in the southern part of Germany,” Wulffen of GeBe Foundation recently told The Herald from his base in Cape Town.

He said they were also working on having exchange programmes between top German handball and football clubs with their Zimbabwean counterparts.
And this will see junior handball and football players as well as their coaches being invited to Germany for some training programmes there, starting from next year.

“We, as GeBe Foundation, will also sponsor two football and two handball youngsters (boys and girls aged 16 or 17) every year to go to Germany for two to three weeks to train and play there.

“It is up to the Zimbabwean organisations to choose the right students or players to have that once-in-a-lifetime experience. We have to ask for a profile of the youngsters and we need to make sure that they are the right ones to deserve it,” Wulffen said.