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The new “Africa’s Team” – Meet CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto Generation (2025)

By TAR Editorial Team | December 8, 2024

In the last week or so, the CANYON//SRAM Racing team have announced their development squad riders, and the team incredibly features five, yes, FIVE African women again! They can now claim to be the true owners of the term “Africa’s…

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2025 Pro Cycling Transfer News!

By Jeremy Ford | December 8, 2024

We thought it useful to share where things stand for the top 20 men and top 10 women from the African continent, based on their Africa Tour and UCI points. We have added a few extra names to both lists…

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Live Blog: Trhas Teklehaimanot Tesfay

By TAR Editorial Team | December 6, 2024

Welcome to our live blog to chart the progress of the #TeamTrhas project in the United Kingdom, on which we are working with Trhas, the West London Welcome community center and many of our friends and contacts across the cycling…

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Tour du Burundi: Africa Rising Women’s Cycling

By Kimberly Coats | November 20, 2024

What a week last week! This entire issue is dedicated to the amazing women of African cycling. These women are quickly exhibiting their prowess on the bicycle and their fierceness as competitors. This year’s Tour du Burundi hosted women from…

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2024 African Continental Championships: Review

By Jeremy Ford | October 13, 2024

As Henok Mulubrhan was crowned Elite Men’s Africa Champion for the third year in a row today – unprecedented we think – we thought it good to write up an overview of all the results in one place. Big congratulations…

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Porto Novo, Benin to the UCI World Championships

By Kimberly Coats | October 3, 2024

In 2017, Team Africa Rising launched its 18-month phase-out plan from Rwanda. It was an intentional decision to continue giving the Rwandan Cycling Federation financial support on a diminishing scale over time. TAR continued to offer access to sponsors, coaches,…

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2024 UCI Cycling World Championships (Zurich) – Wrap-up

By Jeremy Ford | September 30, 2024

So, all 64 events at the combined 2024 UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships, hosted here in Zurich, are at an end, and we wanted to share our highlights, and some thoughts, about the African contingent’s performance: Women Elite…

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Exclusive: Merhawi Kudus signs for Burgos-BH

By Jeremy Ford | September 20, 2024

As reported by the Burgos-BH team on 17 September, they have signed the highly experienced Eritrean professional cyclist Merhawi Kudus on a two year deal, running to the end of 2026. This is a fantastic moment for the 30 year…

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2024 UCI World Championships – Full African Rider Start-lists

By TAR Editorial Team | September 18, 2024

With only a few days to go, we are happy to share the only list of all African riders taking part in the 2024 UCI Cycling World Championships, being hosted in Zurich (Switzerland). There are 79 African cyclists taking part,…

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Biniam Girmay Sprints into the History Books

By Kimberly Coats | July 2, 2024

Biniam Girmay, a world class cyclist from Eritrea, became the first Black African to win a stage at the Tour de France. Today was the day. History was written. After 15 years of dogged determination, a commitment to African cycling…

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