Women’s Cycling

Blog: Trhas Teklehaimanot Tesfay

May 27, 2025

Welcome to our 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 industry:…

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Team Africa Rising Newsletter: Is Benin Cycling the Next African Powerhouse?

May 24, 2025

The 2025 Tour du Benin was a resounding success. News continues to spread about the race and the work being led by the President of the Benin Cycling Federation. The Tour du Benin grows in notoriety and level each year.…

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Live Blog: Road To The Cycling World Championships #Africa2025

May 13, 2025

With Africa hosting the UCI Cycling Road World Championships in 2025 for the first time in September in Kigali (22-28th, Rwanda), we are launching this new Africa Rising Live Blog to report on key moments and developments in the build-up…

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2025 Contracts & Transfers Tracker – African Riders (Men & Women)

May 12, 2025

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…

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From Cyclists to Commissaires – The St John’s College and Academy Cycling Group

March 25, 2025

Initiated by the then 13-year old William Mills as an outreach programme for disadvantaged boys from inner city Johannesburg, the St Johns College and Academy Cycling Group is, six years later, developing a new skillset, this time learning to how…

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2025 Is A Go For The African Female Riders on the CANYON SRAM Generation Team!

March 21, 2025

After watching their senior colleagues on the World Tour team from the sidelines, it’s finally time for the CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto Generation Team to embark on their 2025 racing season!

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Africa Rising CEO Kimberly Coats Recognised in Two Major International Women’s Day 2025 Publications

March 10, 2025

It has been quite a week for Team Africa Rising’s CEO Kimberly Coats around International Women’s Day 2025. She has been named as one of the key women in world cycling in TWO major media reports by Cycling News and…

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

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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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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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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