TEAM DIMENSION DATA: Lineup & Preview Tour de Romandie pubblicato il 25/04/2017

Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka lines up with an all-African team for the Swiss World Tour stage race, Tour de Romandie, which starts tomorrow on Tuesday, April 25 and ends on Sunday, April 30.

The opening stage of Tour de Romandie is a short 4.8 km prologue, taking place in Aigle. Afterwards, no less than three of the remaining five stages finish uphill. Especially stage 1 and 4 are very tough with several hard climbs to overcome before a mountaintop finish.

On the final day of racing, the riders will once again fight against the clock. This time, a difficult 18.3 km time trial awaits them. On a very hard and undulating course, nothing is settled until the last rider crosses the finishing line in Lausanne.

Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka brings a strong team with multiple good climbers, all rising from the African continent. Merhawi Kudus will lead the team after a good start to the season with several strong performances on the climbs. To support Kudus, and to try their own luck during the race, the following riders have been called up for this prestigious race: Natnael Berhane, Mekseb Debesay, Adrien Niyonshuti, Youcef Reguigui, Daniel Teklehaimanot, Jay Thomson and Jaco Venter.

Merhawi Kudus:
"I’m really looking forward to this year’s Tour de Romandie. I came to look at some of the stages with my coach a few weeks ago and I think it will be a tough race, like all the World Tour races are. I also know these roads from my time here at the UCI Center so for sure I will target some of the stages that suit me. As a team, we want to show off the team colors and be on the attack. I think stage wins and a classification jersey is possible for us”.


Team Dimension Data For Qhubeka

Founded in 2007, Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka became the first ever African cycling team to gain a WorldTour license, in 2016. In the team’s palmares you can find a Milan-Sanremo victory, numerous stage wins at the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana, two Tour of Britain GC victories, and 36 National Championships. The team has bases in South Africa, the Netherlands and Italy. It’s also known as Africa’s Team due to its focus on helping African talents to the world stage of cycling. The team races to raise funds for the Qhubeka Charity to change lives with bicycles in Africa. #DoYourPart and gift a bicycle or part of a bicycle, by clicking here.

Qhubeka is an Nguni word that means “to progress”“to move forward”. Qhubeka (qhubeka.org) partners with communities, public sector, private sector, and non-profit organisations to provide people with bicycles in return for working to improve their community, environment or school attendance. 

Dimension Data (dimensiondata.com) uses the power of technology to help organisations achieve great things in the digital era. As a member of the NTT Group, we accelerate our clients’ ambitions through digital infrastructure, hybrid cloud, workspaces for tomorrow, and cybersecurity. With a turnover of USD 7.5 billion, offices in 58 countries, and 31,000 employees, we deliver wherever our clients are, at every stage of their technology journey. We’re proud to be the Official Technology Partner of Amaury Sport Organisation, organiser of the Tour de France, and the title partner of the cycling team, Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka.

Learn more about the team at www.africasteam.com

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