Our next podcast: meet Africa’s latest UCI Continental Team - Tshenolo Pro Cycling 🇿🇦
We talk to Reinardt and Thabiso about their break-through 2025, and plans for the future!
Spotify link below + available on all podcast channels 🎙️🎧🇿🇦
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Just resharing a piece we wrote for BBC Sport in April about the rising star that is Milkias Maekele 🇪🇷
We are so happy for him! Signing for @INEOSGrenadiers development team is a big moment for the young Eritrean 🙏
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www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/cly1jg92vweo
The results of the annual Best African Cyclist Awards are out this weekend. We are proud to be on the judging panel 🙏🏆
The big award winners are:
🏆 Men Elite: Biniam Girmay 🇪🇷
🏆 Women Elite: Kim Le Court 🇲🇺
🏆 Best Nation: Eritrea 🇪🇷
🏆 Best Amateur: Paul Daumont 🇧🇫
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***BREAKING NEWS***
Eritrea’s Henok Mulubrhan has signed a two year contract extension with his XDS Astana Team 👏🇪🇷
Keep up with all 2026 African rider contract announcements on our exclusive live tracker here:
teamafricarising.org/2026-contrac...
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***BREAKING NEWS*** v2
We recently confirmed the 2025 Africa Continental Cycling Championships would take place on 19-23 November, and can now confirm location:
🇰🇪 Kwale County, near Mombasa in Kenya. It’s a sea level event.
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There are over 140 African male and female riders racing at WT, Pro Conti & Conti level all over the world! 🌍
Great to see three South African 🇿🇦 riders finish the Tour of Shanghai, with all three just 24s back from winner 👏
Full results on @procyclingstats.com
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Race Around Rwanda 2025: Epic 1,000km Challenge Which Showcased Africa’s Cycling Spirit #RaceAroundRwanda #CyclingChallenge #CyclingCommunity #SportsEvent #AfricaCycling
We recently interviewed Abdeslam Dahmane (Sport Director) of the Madar Pro Cycling Team - Africa’s #1 ranked professional road race team in 2025.
Have a read about the team and their plans on our News Feed:
#AfricaRising #AfricaCycling
teamafricarising.org/madar-pro-cy...
Excellent racing by Natnael Tesfatsin on @movistarteam.com at Ethias-Tour de Wallonie - 6th in the final GC, and several top ten or thereabouts stage finishes 🇪🇷
Is it enough for a Vuelta squad call up for the 26yo #Eritrea star…. 🇪🇷🌍
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We have updated our ‘Road to the World Championships” live blog with our exclusive interview with Biniam Girmay about his thoughts on the forthcoming UCI Cycling Road Championships 🇷🇼🌍
#AfricaRising #AfricaCycling #Kigali2025 #BiniamGirmay
teamafricarising.org/roadtothewor...
Our exclusive “Road to the Worlds” Live Blog has been updated with all the new National Champions this weekend!
Kudos to all those new NCs from Eritrea, Algeria, Ethiopia, Morocco, Eswatini, Rwanda, Uganda and Cameroon!
teamafricarising.org/roadtothewor...
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African Nat Champs results - Tunisia 🇹🇳
Elite Women: Mariam Brini (3rd last year!)
Elite Men: Mohamed Aziz Dellai (a 21yo @WCC_cycling alumni 👏)
Full results @ProCyclingStats 💻🏆
Algeria and Ethiopia Champs kick off today, good luck all! 🇩🇿🇪🇹
#africarising #africacycling
Africa National Champs update:
Bénin has two 2025 Road Race champs:
Men Elite: Ricardo Sodjede
Women Elite: Hermionne Ahouissou
Both retain their titles from 2024 👍🇧🇯
#africarising #africacycling
Results from the various African National Champs this weekend starting to arrive:
Over in Mauritius, the nations two pro riders Kim Le Court &!Alexandre Mayer took the ITT wins 🇲🇺🏆🏆
💻 @procyclingstats.com
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Team Bénin coach Adrien Niyonshuti prepares his riders for their first ever competitive Team Time Trial 🇧🇯🚴🏿🚴🏿🚴🏿🚴🏿🚴🏿🚴🏿💨
Huge thanks to Wahoo for supplying all these KICKR trainers, we have worked with them for several years now, true friends of African cycling 👏👏
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#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 #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 💪🌍
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AMAZING! THIS is African cycling.
At this year's Tour of Mersin in Turkey, 17 African athletes from four African countries were at today's start 🇩🇿🇪🇷🇪🇹🇿🇦
This possibly is the largest contingency of #African cyclists at a European event outside of the UCI World Champs
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***BREAKING NEWS***
As predicted, 18yo wonder Tsige Kahsay took the final stage win, and all race jerseys - kindly sponsored by Rapha
Her team - Mesfin Industrial Engineering - won the Team GC as well. Total race dominance by these guys 👏🇪🇹
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Today we have the 100km Stage 4 of the Tour of Tigray - from Abiy Adi to the capital Mekelle.
At that race there are 2 intermediate sprint and 3 mountain points, and the hot and very hard 17km Menewe mountain climb 🫣🇪🇹
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Updated blog: Tour du Rwanda
Good evening from a humid Lake Kivu here in Gisenyi, NE Rwanda 🇷🇼
Topics include:
- Stage review, with Eritreans everywhere
- Launch of UCI / WCC / FERWACY Satellite in Rwanda
- Bikes bikes everywhere!
#TdRwanda #AfricaCycling
teamafricarising.org/tour-du-rwan...
We are getting more and more convinced that the #Eritrean 🇪🇷 team need some entrance music, they just look so cool…
Any suggestions and we might try and find a big speaker for the paddock for a stage! 🇪🇷👍
#Eritrea #AfricaRising #AfricaCycling
#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
Exciting moment here at Tour du Rwanda as David Lappartient (President of UCI) presents the inauguration of a World Cycling Centre Regional Development Satellite in Rwanda, as part of the preparation for - and legacy of - the first World Championships on African soil 🌍
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The 🇩🇿 Madar Pro Cycling team (Continental level) turned up today and dominated stage 9 of the Tour d’Algerie, taking five of the top six spots!
Youcef Reguigui 🇩🇿 won the stage and team mate Hamza Amari takes an 11s lead in the overall GC, with one 83.5km stage left…
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Team Africa Rising exclusive!
Hear from Daniyal Matthews - the first South African National Road Race Champion win by a rider of colour 🇿🇦🏆👏
He is looking for a Continental or higher team ride for 2025. We defo recommend checking him out on @procyclingstats.com
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Here we go! Tour of Oman stage one is a go!
@procyclingstats.com have their #LiveStats running and we have four African riders in the race:
🇪🇷 Henok Mulubrhan
🇪🇷 Metkel Eyob
🇪🇷 Nahom Zeray
🇪🇹 Welay Hagos
www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of...
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Congrats to Alan Hatherly and Lucy Young - the new South African Elite Men’s and Women’s ITT national champions 🇿🇦
💻 @procyclingstats.com #WhereElse
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It’s race day! Final day of the week: it’s the #TrofeoPalma 🏆
The Intermarché - Wanty team roll in by the beautiful cathedral of Palma de Mallorca, or ‘La Seu’ - is this Biniam Girmay day…
We hope 🙏 Go go Bini! 🇪🇷🚴🏾💨💨💨
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Very very wet day here at Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana and we took a visit to the Intermarché - Wanty team in the paddock ☔️☔️
The new Cube Bikes of Louis Meintjes and Biniam Girmay look great! 🇿🇦🇪🇷
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