Team Eritrea Dominates Tour Du Faso

Eritrea Cycling Team with Daniel Teklehaymanot in a race

Ghana’s team in the ongoin Tour Du Faso have expressed optimism about their performance in the Cycling Tour which is in its second day.

Ghana’s Isaac Anim and Henry Tetteh Djamgba placed 13^th  from the 44 cyclists who were engaged in the individual time trial on Friday. 

The promising team made up of Sanuel Anin, Henry Tetteh Djamgba, Isaac Sackey and captain Mohammed Amin finished 8^th , out of 22 countries which particpated in the team trial which was won by African Champions Eritrea. 

Eritrean champ Daniel Teklehaymanot made thirty nine minutes and eleven seconds; two minutes fifty-seven seconds ahead of Ghana’s Samuel Anin. 

Daniel Teklehaymanot, who is now a professional rider with the new Australian Pro Continental cycling team Green Edge, was the 2010 African Cycling Champion by winning the individual time trial and team time trial at both senior and under-23 levels.

Communications Director of the Ghana Cycling Federation Denis Moore who is with the team in Burkina Faso told Accra Based Choice FM,

“Ghana would do better in the road race which would climax the cycling tour on Sunday.

"It was quite an impressive outing for Ghana today and that does means Ghana Cycling is really making headways in the sport. I mean the improvement is that Anin is trailing the Eritrean champion by just two minutes. 

"Ghana’s Chances are very bright, the lights are already lit, everything is clear so I think all is said and done is wonderful news for Ghana and is progress for Cycling”. 

If team Eritrea wins this edition of the African championship, it would be its third consecutive continental cycling championship. 

By Seth Acquaye