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.
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139 riders raced across Azerbaijan in the relaunched Tour of 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan, rebranded as the Baku Khankendi Cycling Race for 2026. Jeremy Ford looks back on a week of racing that showed plenty of future potential.
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The African Continental MTB Championships (XCO & XCC) start tomorrow in Ivory Coast - we take a dive into the (very!) provisional start-lists and see which nations are there, and who is not there…
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We are celebrating our 25th episode of the Africa Rising Podcast with an interview with Abdesslem Dahmane, the boss of Africa’s #1 UCI Men’s Continental Team: Madar Pro Cycling 👏🇩🇿
He talks through the philosophy of the team, the strategy and the riders!
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Want to hear what motivated the African pro cyclist with the most Grand Tour race starts in history? ❤️🇿🇦🌍
We sat down with Louis Meintjes who raced 20 Grand Tours over a 13 year pro career - including 7 x TdF
Link below, and on all other podcast channels 🎙️🌍
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Exciting stage 5 finish yesterday as Tour d’Algérie hits the halfway point!
Some big names on three African UCI Continental teams of Tshenolo, Mouloudia & Madar battling it out in the sprint with Hamza, Basson, Redae, Bengayou and Janse van Rensburg going hard at it! 🇪🇹🇿🇦🇩🇿
***HUGE BREAKING NEWS***
The awesome 20yo Milkias Maekele 🇪🇷 has been selected for the FULL @ineosgrenadiers.bsky.social team for the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali tomorrow!
What an opportunity for this young sprinter to show what he can do.
GO GO AKISH!! 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷
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Our 20th podcast episode and it’s a really special one: We sat down with the 21yo enigma @SalamiAvocetie1 of the Bénin Cycling Federation 🎙️🇧🇯
Check it out on all major podcast channels - Spotify link below:
open.spotify.com/episode/1aYW...
We are super happy to share our latest podcast as this one is a true history lesson on one of the key folk who have been quietly working on African men’s and women’s cycling development for decades.
Meet JP van Zyl, Director of the UCI World Cycling Centre Africa
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Everyone talks about “developing Africa.”
Very few stick around long enough to see it work.
This is what it actually looks like 👇
A father. A son. A system that holds.
🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/3Bgs...
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Ok, it is almost the end of March, we are going to call it…
There are officially 121 African men and women racing on UCI pro teams around the world in 2026!
There are 13 nations represented in these numbers, the highest ever number of African nations!
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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 th...
