{"id":4783,"date":"2026-10-21T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2026-10-21T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T15:58:20","slug":"rwandan-women-claim-three-gold-medals-at-african-cycling-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/rwandan-women-claim-three-gold-medals-at-african-cycling-championships\/sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan women claim three gold medals at African cycling championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rw2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rw2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rw2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rw2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rw2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rw2-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rwandan women cyclists won three gold medals at the 2026 African Road Cycling Championships in Kisumu, Kenya, on Wednesday, October 21, as Diane Ingabire, Jazilla Mwamikazi and Yvonne Masengesho topped their respective individual time trial categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ingabire secured gold in the women\u2019s elite race, completing the 20.4-kilometre course in 31 minutes and two seconds to beat Mauritius\u2019 Aurelie Halbwachs by just one second. South Africa\u2019s Lucy Young finished third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Masengesho, 18, had earlier won the junior women\u2019s title, giving Rwanda its first gold medal of the championships. She covered the 10.2km course in 15 minutes and 37.19 seconds, finishing about three seconds ahead of Egypt\u2019s Joudy El Sayed. Ethiopia\u2019s Rahel Gimbato took bronze, 31 seconds behind the Rwandan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mwamikazi claimed Rwanda\u2019s third gold in the women\u2019s under-23 category, clocking 31 minutes and 17 seconds over 20.4km. South Africa\u2019s Mellett Marzaan finished 27 seconds behind to take silver, while Ethiopia\u2019s Tsige Kiros claimed bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rwanda also won silver in the men\u2019s elite individual time trial through Shemu Nsengiyumva, who finished 31 seconds behind Uganda\u2019s Charles Kagimu. Kagimu won the 30.6km race in 41 minutes and six seconds, while Kenya\u2019s Evan Kimani took bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the men\u2019s junior category, Brian Ishimwe finished 10th, about three minutes behind winner Tristan Hardy of Mauritius, who clocked 26 minutes and 49 seconds over 20.4km. Rwanda\u2019s Yasin Niyonkuru finished 14th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rwanda\u2019s Xaverine Nirere and Eric Muhoza did not finish their respective women\u2019s and men\u2019s elite races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The championships run until October 25, bringing together cyclists from across Africa to compete in junior, under-23 and elite categories. Rwanda has entered 29 cyclists across the different events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The competition continues with the mixed team relay over 40.8km, alongside youth road races covering 119.8km for men and 68.8km for women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three gold medals and one silver give Rwanda a strong start as the team pursues further success in the remaining events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan women cyclists won three gold medals at the 2026 African Road Cycling Championships in Kisumu, Kenya, on Wednesday, October 21, as Diane Ingabire, Jazilla [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,43,41,35,27,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa-news","category-current_affairs","category-hot_topics","category-regional","category-sports","category-top_stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}