Kim Le Court-Pienaar claimed a magnificent victory on stage 6 of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, giving AG Insurance – Soudal Team its first stage win of this year’s race. Stage 6 delivered everything the Tour de France…
Welcome to our Live Blog / News Service on all things African women’s cycling! We will try and capture all breaking news, key developments, race results, and anything else we think you will enjoy reading… August 2026 6 August: Today,…
Please find below the 2026 ‘Africa Tour‘, the UCI classified multi-stage and one day races across the continent, alongside all individual National Championships – a key source of UCI points. As you can see, there are eight UCI classified men’s…
Alongside our grass-roots development work, it is vital we at Africa Rising Cycling always talk about and promote the many African riders riding in the professional peloton. These men and women are the inspirations for the next generation of talent from Africa,…
Somewhat surprisingly in the Ivory Coast, the African Continental MTB Championships are taking place over three days, in the XCC (short track), XCO (Olympic cross‑country) categories for Elite, U23 and Junior Men & Women. It is good to move events…
Although it is just the end of March and we have only had one of the eight Africa Tour UCI races, African men and women have been racing for a good 4-6 weeks so we thought we would take a…
In January 2026, we launched our first ever podcast series, to bring to life the many incredible projects, people, athletes and initiatives truly helping young African cycling talent get their shot at pro cycling. We publish a new episode each…
This article was written by a Rwandan journalist. The following is an update on the horrific crash involving the sponsor caravan at the start of this year’s Tour du Rwanda. There have been no updates from the race organizers, so…
In our last newsletter, we introduced you to the new Africa Rising Cycling Podcast, launched with a vision to celebrate the remarkable spirit and resilience of Africa’s cycling community Since January 14th, our Head of Communications and new Pod-Guy, Jeremy,…
We are pleased to share that our good friend Charlotte Ward, the Executive Director of the Re-Cycle Bikes to Africa Charity has been named as one of Cycling UK’s “100 Women in Cycling 2025”!