Cycling News and Race Results

Rwandan pro-rider Adrien Niyonshuti (25) will be participating in this year’s Absa Cape Epic with South African Jacques Janse van Rensburg (24) as team MTN Qhubeka.

Any rider who has hopes of winning the MTN Tulbagh ultra-marathon on 18 February 2012, will have to be wide awake.  One little mistake could effectively mean ‘race over’ for him.

Adrien Niyonshuti (MTN-Qhubeka) made mountain-biking history earlier this year when he won the African Jersey Competition of the Absa Cape Epic with Mannie Heymans as partner.

‘Down but not out’.  This is probably the best way to describe Adrien Niyonshuti (Team MTN Qhubeka)’s experience last weekend (30-31 August) when he raced against some of the world’s best cross-country riders on the course that had been designed for next year’s London Olympic Games.

Max Knox and Adrien Niyonshuti’s luck changed course when an error by the overnight leaders handed them overall victory in the Subaru sani2c in Scottburgh on Saturday.

Kevin Evans and David George look set for their second title as a unit after winning the tough second stage of the three-day Subaru sani2c mountain bike race between Ixopo and Highflats on Friday.

Beat us and win the Absa Cape Epic’s category for the best African team. Adrien Niyonshuti and Mannie Heymans could set this challenge to Africa’s best riders when they set off in the first stage of the Epic on Sunday, 27 March.

Pro-rider Adrien Niyonshuti (24), born in the Eastern Province, Rwanda in 1987, will be participating in this year’s Absa Cape Epic presented by adidas as a member of team MTN Garmin Qhubeka.

Mannie Heymans (Garmin-adidas) and Adrien Niyonshuti (MTN/Qhubeka) will team up to contest next month’s Absa Cape Epic.

It took a long time, twenty years to be exact, but at long last Rwanda has a cyclist again who is good enough to represent the country at the Olympic Games.