Eritrea's Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier wins the African Continental Road Championship

Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier wins the African Continental Road Championship

By Inthebunch

Medal Count

Eritrea’s Amanuel Gebreigzabhier was crowned African champion after soloing to victory at the African Continental Road Championships 168km road race in Kigali, Rwanda, today.

Gebreigzabhier completed the 14 laps of 12km circuit in 3:56:29, beating teammate Metkel Eyob and Algerian Azzedine Lagab into second and third respectively.

Rwandan Joseph Areruya won the under-23 category and finished sixth overall.

View more results below.

Elite men

1. Amanuel Gebreigzabhier (Eritrea) 3:56:29
2. Metkel Eyob (Eritrea) +1:53
3. Azzedine Lagab (Algeria) ”
4. Mekseb Debesay (Eritrea) +1:55
5. Eddie van Heerden (South African) +1:58
6. Joseph Areruya (Rwanda) +2:06
7. Henok Mulubrhan (Eritrea) ”
8. Youcef Reguigui (Algeria) +2:08
9. Didier Munyaneza (Rwanda) +2:10
10. Gustav Basson (South Africa) “

Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier wins the African Continental Road Championship!#ERITREA 🇪🇷 🇪🇷 pic.twitter.com/ch38ElaEPN

— kibrom Eritrea (@kibrom19) February 19, 2018

Mr. @AmanuelGerezgh1 from #Eritrea is the winner of the African Continental road Championship 2018. He is the new African champion.

The organiser of this successful #afconroad18 is @Ferwacy, #Rwanda. pic.twitter.com/MwBBuaL4Ih

— Christophe Hitayezu (@ChristopheHit) February 18, 2018

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