@africacycling.bsky.social
We are the voice of the rise of African cycling; alongside delivering key projects on the ground to bring male & female African athletes to the pro peloton.
***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...
#AfricaRising #AfricaCycling #Eritrea
We are proud to announce the largest expansion of virtual training and racing in the history of African cycling, with @gozwift.bsky.social
The “Virtual Performance Centers” (VPC) programme will group and grow online training and racing across the continent 🌍
teamafricarising.org/virtual-perf...
We have updated our exclusive Newswire on all things African women’s cycling;
🇧🇮 Women’s Tour of Burundi kicke off: see stages 1 and 2 results 👍
🇲🇺 Kim Le Court on fire in Italy!
🇪🇹🇧🇯🇷🇼 2026 transfer rumours…
teamafricarising.org/african-wome...
(Thanks @procyclingstats.com for top data)
***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.
#AfricaRising #AfricaCycling
***BREAKING NEWS***
The African Road Championships 2025 will be held on 19-23 Nov in Kenya 🇰🇪 - replicating 2024.
Sadly this last minute decision on the event will clash with the Tour of Ghana (13-24 Nov)
The Champs offer UCI points, so sadly they might have to postpone Tour of Ghana…
More soon…
Me and Katy review the Worlds and get Red Walters on why he went off from the gun in Rwanda and Jeremy from Africa Rising on a new star.
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#kigali2025 #procycling
Our man on the ground reflects on the 2025 World Championships as everyone flies out of Kigali.
We do recommend listening to the whole #OnYerBike podcast as @sannyr.com and @writebikerepeat.bsky.social really know their stuff 👍🎙️
#Kigali2025 #AfricaRising
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Latest On Yer Bike with me and Katy and we go LIVE to Kigali, Rwanda to catch @jeremyford.bsky.social @africacycling.bsky.social! #kigali2025
On all pod platforms!
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What a day! The first two races of the 2025 UCI World Champs here in Rwanda are all complete, safely and with some incredible performances.
Check out our review of Day 1 on our #RoadToTheWorlds newswire here:
teamafricarising.org/roadtothewor...
Happy to share our new(ish!) TikTok account just hit 5000 followers!
Give us a follow on there for lots of video action around African cycling! 🌍🌍
#AfricaRising
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So much happening ahead of the start tomorrow of the World Champs! Our news wire updated with:
🇧🇯🚴🏾🚴🏿♀️ Team Bénin out training with the locals in Kigali 🇷🇼
📰 Our CEO speaks to BBC Sport about the Worlds
📍The UCI will debut their new GPS rider tracking system 👍👍
teamafricarising.org/roadtotheworlds
“Africans have been making their presence known in cycling's top races for more than a decade, but a new milestone will be reached when the 2025 UCI Road World Championships start in Rwanda on Sunday.”
Featuring interviews with Kim Le Court, Biniam Girmay and others!
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cyclin...
Check out our in-depth interview with Bicycling Australia magazine about the 2025 Cycling World Champs!
The event is in Africa for the first time, and we talk about the effect it will have on the African cycling scene on the continent 🌍
Three days to go!
bicyclingaustralia.com.au/news/rainbow...
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BREAKING NEWS!
The Ethiopia squad for @Kigali2025 has been announced and they mean business! 👏🇪🇹
We can also exclusively share the Tunisia squad too! Tunisia is one of Africa’s smaller cycling nations 👍🇹🇳
Full info on our “Road To the Worlds” news-wire:
teamafricarising.org/roadtothewor...
The startlist for the 25th edition of the Grand Prix Chantal Biya, which starts tomorrow, has been published.
50 riders from 9 teams:
🇨🇲 x 17
🇫🇷 x 12
🇸🇰 x 6
🇲🇺 & 🇳🇱 x 5
🇨🇮 x 4
🇨🇼 x 1
All info on @procyclingstats.com #WhereElse
www.procyclingstats.com/race/grand-p...
We have updated our “Road To The Worlds” newsfeed with latest we have:
🇧🇯🇺🇬 Benin and Uganda announce their full squads for the World Champs!
🇪🇷 No news yet on the #Eritrea full squad but our thoughts on whether. Biniam Girmay will go…
teamafricarising.org/roadtothewor...
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
#AfricaRising #AfricaCycling
Our good friends at CANYON / SRAM zondacrypto Generation have just announced their squad for the Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l’Ardèche next week, including Maddie Le Roux 🇿🇦 and Diane Ingabire 🇷🇼
Full story on our newsfeed here:
teamafricarising.org/african-wome...
We have updated our Africa Women’s Cycling Newsfeed with an interview with Tsige Kahsay - the 18yo rising star of Ethiopian cycling - following her incredible debut at Tour de l’Avenir Femmes 👏🇪🇹
Data from @procyclingstats.com as always!
Check it out here:
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Our African Women’s newsfeed updated, and it’s packed!
🇧🇯 Bénin Women’s National Team race the Maryland Classic on Saturday! So much going on - our CEO Kimberly Coats on point 👍
🇪🇹Tsige Kahsay stars at the Tour de l’Avenir Femmes
🇿🇦 Ashleigh M-P back on form!
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We have updated our “Road To the World Champs” newsfeed with the latest developments:
✅ Team Mauritius & Team South Africa announce their squads 🇲🇺🇿🇦
🇪🇷 Will Biniam Girmay race…
+ see our comprehensive chart of all African qualification 💻
teamafricarising.org/roadtothewor...
ANNOUNCING TSIGE KAHSAY! 🇪🇹🎺
The 18yo is 2x winner of Tour of Tigray, started the Tour de l’Avenir Femmes this week as youngest rider, won a ‘Most Combative’, 6x top 30 finisher, ending #21 in the GC!
Read the story of her race on our Africa Women’s Newsfeed 🥰
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So good to see Milkias Maekele and Yoel Habteab on Team BIKE AID spending time with the Eritrean fans at Deutschland Tour! ❤️🇪🇷🇪🇷
Cycling is a sport played in public and it is vital the riders (and teams!) remember this, and keep engaging with the loyal fans by the roadside, the paddock etc ❤️
Check out this in-depth interview in Inzozi - the inflight magazine of @flyrwandair.bsky.social - talking about his rise from local racing in Rwanda, to racing the UCI World Tour & the Olympics & now prepping his Bénin team for the World Champs being hosted in Kigali 🇷🇼🇧🇯
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And also starting tomorrow is the six stage Tour de l’Avenir Femmes and two of Africa’s female rising stars are racing on the UCI’s World Cycling Centrr team:
🇪🇹 Tsige Kahsay
🇷🇼 Jazilla Mwamikazi
Full info on @procyclingstats.com as always - go check them out
www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de...
Tomorrow is the start of the men’s Tour de L’Avenir - a window into the #nextgen of cycling around the world.
The UCI’s World Cycling Centre team has a squad racing, featuring four riders from across Africa 🇪🇷🇩🇿🇿🇦
Check them out on @procyclingstats.com here:
www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de...
***BREAKING NEWS***
Want to understand the African nations qualified (and quotas where not) just released for the UCI Cycling World Championships in ONE MONTH’S TIME! 🌍🇷🇼
All information on our live World Championships live news feed here:
teamafricarising.org/roadtothewor...
Lots of African riders in action today, yesterday’s results dominated around the world by 🇪🇷 Eritrea and 🇿🇦 South Africa men and women!
To keep up with all Africans racing road around the world, keep an eye on our @procyclingstats.com powered results tool:
teamafricarising.org/race-results...
Everyone loves a bit of data:
📊 GDP
🇺🇸 USA: $27tr
🌍 Africa (top 10 cycling nations): $1.1tr
📑 Male riders on WT/PCT/CT Teams
🇺🇸 USA: 53
🌍 Africa: 106
The rise of African cycling in last 10+ yrs is quite remarkable. More to come!
See more info here:
teamafricarising.org/transfer-new...
The UCI #AfricaTour rankings were updated today. See our tracker of all African male and female pro riders 💻
Big jumps include Alan Hatherly 🇿🇦 into the men’s Top 20; and Lucie de Marigny-Lagesse 🇲🇺 (looking for a pro team) into Women’s Top10:
teamafricarising.org/transfer-new...
