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Berhane Joins MTN-Qhubeka
02 October 2014, 17:37
Team MTN-Qhubeka has signed Natnael Berhane for the 2015 season. Berhane is a former African and Eritrean road race champion as well as the current national time trial champion of Eritrea.
During last year’s Tour of Turkey, Berhane made history by becoming the first black African to win a professional cycling stage race in Europe when he won the races overall classification.
Berhane also went on to win Africa's most prestigious UCI race this year, The Tour of Amissa Bongo in Gabon, after out-sprinting Spain's Luis Leon Sanchez for the all-important bonus seconds on the final stage.
Having spent the past 2 years with the French Europcar outfit, Berhane has gained some invaluable race experience by competing in a number of world tour events, including the Vuelta a Espana this year.
Natnael Berhane
"To join Team MTN-Qhubeka is the opportunity to represent my country and my continent in an African professional team that races in all of the world’s biggest cycling events," Berhane said.
"My main objective is to help the team to achieve good results in these important races that we will take part in. I would love to be part of the first African team taking the start in Le Tour de France as well.
"Personally, I want to achieve results that will bring much prestige to the team and at the same time, I want to give everybody in Eritrea a reason to be proud."
Received on Thu Oct 02 2014 - 12:09:36 EDT