So it’s the last day of the 2025 Tour du Bénin week, and our Live Blog! Today:
- First ever Para-athlete race 🇧🇯
- The UCI 1.2 GP de Cotonou
- Africa Rising live stream from a moto!
Enjoy and à la prochaine!
#FromThePaddock #TourduBénin
teamafricarising.org/ftp-tourbeni...
The last day of the 2025 Tour du Bénin today and lots to report:
- Full final stage review
- All the action / results of the 1st ever women’s GP Ville du Cotonou
- Bénin Coach Adrien’s views
- Results @procyclingstats.com
teamafricarising.org/ftp-tourbeni...
#FromThePaddock #AfricaRising
The Great Béninois Breakaway!
Live blog updated and stacked for your reading pleasure! 🙏
- Stage 5: Bénin’s Ricardo & Rémi go hard 🇧🇯
- Meet Team Mali 🇲🇱
- Chats with Adrien Niyonshuti 🇧🇯
- Rising From Ashes promo 🇷🇼
teamafricarising.org/ftp-tourbeni...
#FromThePaddock #TourduBénin
#FromThePaddock at #TourduBénin
Our latest live blog is online after stage four with:
- Stage highlights 🚴🏿🚴🏻
- Meeting Tiemoko of Team Mali 🇲🇱
- The ever-presence of our friends at the UCI’s World Cycling Centre in African cycling development 👍
teamafricarising.org/ftp-tourbeni...
#FromThePaddock at #TourduBénin
Here we go! Stage 5, 107.5km from Ouinhi to Porto-Novo
A fairly flat stage with two Intermediate Sprints at 32km & 63km.
Reinardt van Rensburg on Tshenolo starts in yellow with just +8s on Ibrahim Essabahy of Agadir Vélo Propulsion
#FromThePaddock at #TourduBénin
Our blog is updated with some exciting new content:
- Bénin head coach Adrien Niyonshuti and his use of Wahoo KICKR smart trainers & @gozwift.bsky.social with his male & female riders
- The work of Masaka Cycling (Uganda)
- Stage Three overview
#africarising
#FromThePaddock at #TourduBénin
The awesome young guys of Team Bénin warm up on their Wahoo KICKR turbos before the Team Time Trial today at Stage Three!
This is the FIRST TTT these guys have ever done and coach Adrien Niyonshuti has been training them hard 🇧🇯🚴🏿🚴🏿🚴🏿🚴🏿
#FromThePaddock at #TourduBénin
Race day arrives, and the riders were itching to get going this morning 👍
Congrats Reinardt van Rensburg on Tshenolo Pro Cycling 🇿🇦 for a classy solo win, demonstrating his pedigree: 9 x Grand Tours!
Our latest blog is live:
teamafricarising.org/ftp-tourbeni...
#FromThePaddock at Tour du Bénin
The BEAST Reinardt van Rensburg 🇿🇦 on Tshenolo Pro Cycling Team takes the stage one victory solo here!
He wins by 19s and took +13s on the stage so starts in yellow tomorrow with 26s lead 👍🇿🇦
#africarising #africacycling
#FromThePaddock at #TourofBénin
Excellent day, with 14 teams signing on confirming 136 riders for the 20th edition of the race 🇧🇯
Lots of race infrastructure & key logistics nailed today/yesterday, read our full write-up of it all on our live blog 👇
teamafricarising.org/ftp-tourbeni...
#Fromthepaddock at #TourduBénin
It’s always exciting when the official start-list of a UCI race appears on @procyclingstats.com so folks can think about stage winners and the GC contenders…
Who do you fancy for the GC?
www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-du...
#WhereElse #AfricaRising
#FromThePaddock at #TourduBénin
Chief Commissaire Sandro Coccioni of the UCI oversees the creation of the official start-list.
The list is created after the DS (Directeur Sportif) for each team has presented the valid UCI racing license for each rider, and the DS 👍
#FromThePaddock at Tour du Bénin: Today’s highlights:
- The magic Bénin Cycling bus
- Mechanics doing what mechanics do!
- Reunion of Adrien Niyonshuti and Reinardt van Rensburg - both raced for Doug Ryder’s pioneering African team!
Long transfer day tomorrow…
teamafricarising.org/ftp-tourbeni...
#FromThePaddock #TourduBénin
The A & B Squad riders for Team Bénin just arrived at the race hotel…
Their team mini-van just decanted:
🇧🇯 16 bikes
🇧🇯 22 wheels
🇧🇯 14 suitcases
🇧🇯 2 massage tables
🇧🇯 6 riders
Welcome to racing: Africa-style 💪🌍
#AfricaRising #AfricaCycling
Our #FromThePaddock series returns!
We are on the ground at the men’s six-stage UCI 2.2 Tour du Bénin, the GP du Cotonou & the GP International des Amazones ❤️🇧🇯
Live updates on all our socials & the FTP blog on our website:
teamafricarising.org/ftp-tourbeni...
#benin #africarising
#FromThePaddock at Tour du Rwanda
The sky is bright blue again today, there has been no rain, so not many crashes, all is good! 🙏🌞
Your #GC as of now with the 144km Stage 5 starting at 11:10 local time.
Today we go through the beautiful Nyungwe Forest National Park! ❤️🇷🇼
@visitrwanda.bsky.social
#FromThePaddock
157.1km stage today as the ‘real’ start of the @tour_du_Rwanda 🇷🇼
For the debutants, time for a descent, a lot of attacks, and most likely a sprint finish. But let us see… 🙏
Our partner @procyclingstats.com will have live coverage here:
www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of...
#FromThePaddock
We caught up with Rwanda’s #1 rider Moise Mugisha earlier here at the Tour du Rwanda.
He is calm and confident, and targeting a stage win on Stage One. Watch this space 👍🇷🇼
#TdRwanda2025 #AfricaCycling
