African Cycling

Tour du Burundi: Africa Rising Women’s Cycling

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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2025 Pro Cycling Transfer News!

November 10, 2024

With the World Championships done and only a handful of UCI races here and there (we won’t talk about the ‘racing’ taking place in Singapore…), thoughts turn to 2025 contracts and we thought it useful to share where things stand…

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Live Blog: Trhas Teklehaimanot Tesfay

November 1, 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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2024 African Continental Championships: Review

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

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

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

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

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

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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TDF 2024

Tour de France 2024: Live Blog

June 28, 2024

Hello everyone, we are at the Tour de France again this year, to bring you breaking news and live content* on the progress of the three African riders, and exclusive content with many other figures in pro cycling around African…

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