Rwanda to host 2025 Road World Championships
Cycling-mad nation awarded the first African Worl♔d Championships

Rwanda will host the 2025 Road World Championships, becoming the first African nation 🔯to host t🧸he event.
The Rwandan President Paul Kagame was in Flanders to meet UCI president David Lappartient and the UCI Director General Amina Lanaya 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:at this year's Worlds on Thursday morning, and the Rwanda Cycling Federation was quick to announc🔯e the news.
The UCI has still to confirm that Rwanda will host the 2025 worlds but the East Afಌrican nation has always been the favourite despite Morocco also making a bid. Cycling is hugely popular in Rwanda, with a number of riders merging to compe🔜te professionally in Europe in recent years. &nbsꦓp;
UCI president David Lappartient has always supported Rwanda’s bid after u🌊sing the idea to bolster his election campaign in 2018. He also visited the Tour 💜of Rwanda in May.
The Rwanda World Championships are expected to be held in the capital Kigali, which sits at an ꦍaltitude of 1567m.
The 2022 Road World Championships will be held in Woll๊ongong, Australia, with Glasgow and Zurich hosting the event in 2023 and 2024.
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