Fourteen cyclists will symbolize Rwanda on the 2026 UCI Street World Championships in Montreal, Canada, from September 20 to 27.
The Rwandan contingent will compete throughout the elite, Underneath-23 and junior classes because the nation returns to the worldwide biking stage 12 months after internet hosting the 2025 World Championships in Kigali, the primary version to be held on African soil.
The nationwide workforce has been making ready on the UCI Regional Satellite tv for pc Centre in Musanze, the place 19 cyclists spent practically a month in camp forward of the championships. Fourteen riders have been chosen for the journey to Canada and are scheduled to depart Kigali on the evening of September 16.
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The lads’s elite workforce includes Samuel Niyonkuru, Aimé Ruhumuriza, Jules Mugabo and Shemu Nsengiyumva.
Kevin Nshutiraguma and Shadrack Ufitimana will compete within the males’s Underneath-23 class, whereas Jonathan Muhawenimana, Pacifique Byusa, Bryan Ishimwe and Jackson Nkurikiyinka will symbolize Rwanda within the junior males’s class.
The ladies’s elite workforce options Diane Ingabire, Xaverine Nirere and Claudette Nyirarukundo, whereas Mariate Byukusenge and Jazilla Mwamikazi will compete within the ladies’s Underneath-23 class.
Rwanda’s junior ladies’s workforce will probably be represented by 17-year-old Donata Akimana and 18-year-old Yvonne Masengesho.
Rwanda fielded 23 cyclists eventually 12 months’s World Championships in Kigali, with 11 of these riders returning to the nationwide workforce for this 12 months’s version in Montreal.
