Wayne Lumbasi
Cycling group INEOS Grenadiers have teamed up with marathon world-record holder Eliud Kipchoge to set up a cycling academy in Kenya. The teams are working together to create the new academy at the renowned Kaptagat camp -Eliud Kipchoge’s Running Team training center.
“This is a significant and exciting development in world cycling – it has the power to drive lasting change by developing new riders from Africa,” said Ineos Grenadiers manager Dave Brailsford.
Kipchoge, a double Olympic champion who became the first man ever to run a sub-two hour marathon as part of the Ineos 1.59 Challenge in 2019, hopes the expansion of his centre to include cycling will allow Kenya to identify and develop a generation of cyclists similar to the country’s world-class distance runners.
African cycling made a breakthrough last month when Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay became the first Black African rider to win a Grand Tour stage at the Giro d’Italia. The young Eritrean is one of a promising wave of riders from East Africa
