Welcome to the African Continental Cycling Centre
The African Continental Cycling Centre is the hub for cycling in Africa, based in the city of Potchefstroom, South Africa, on 1400 meters of altitude, in a Malaria free area, about 120km from Johannesburg.
Established in 2005, more than 200 athletes have attended the Centre so far. Some of our athletes won medals at African Continental Championships, others took part in UCI World Cups and some even qualified and participated in the 2008 Olympic Games.
Our mission is
• to establish training camps for athletes, coaches and national teams
• to recognise talent and to give the athletes the opportunity to attend the World Cycling Centre
in Switzerland
• to further develop and educate the countries of the African continent in the sport of cycling
• to further develop all disciplines of cycling in collaboration with the
African National Federations
• to act as a representative of the UCI within the African continent
Our aim is
• to give exposure of high level training and racing to African cyclists
• to increase the racing level of cycling on the entire continent
Our long term goal is:
• to see African Athletes competing in the International calendar (worldwide),
in UCI World Cups, UCI World Championships and Olympic Games.
Latest News
- UCI Africa Tour: show of strength from Morocco
Date: 01.04.2010 Moroccan riders raked in the UCI points during the Tour of Mali (March 7th – 13th) by taking the top three places in all five stages. Mouhcine Lahsaini was the overall winner, followed by his compatriots Adil Jelloul and Mohamed Er-...
- UCI Africa Tour: Tour of Cameroon
Date: 05.03.2010 The Tour of Cameroon (February 15 – 26) was the highlight of the month in Africa. The class 2.2 event attracted European teams from France and Slovakia as well as African Teams from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Rwanda ...
- UCI Africa Tour: South African Ian McLeod takes back the leader's jersey
03.02.2010 The Tropicale Amissa Bongo in Gabon took place from 19th to 24th January over six stages and a total of 719km. Overall winner is French professional rider Anthony Charteau (Bbox Bouygues Télécom) South Africa’s Ian McLeod finish...
- UCI President On Supersport
During a visit to South Africa, the UCI President was interviewed on the leading South African private sports television channel SuperSport which is broadcast in South Africa and other African countries. Mr McQuaid talked about the globalisation of cyc...
- International Bike Expos
The 19th EUROBIKE will take place from Wednesday through Saturday, 1-4 September 2010 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. For more information see: http://www.eurobike-show.de/eb-en/ The Interbike International Trade Expo will take place from Wednesday to...
- Saadoune leads UCI individual rankings
In the UCI Africa Tour individual ranking, Abdelatif Saadoune has taken over the leader’s jersey, 40 points ahead of South African Ian McLeod. Eritrean Daniel Teklehaymanot, who was a trainee at the World Cycling Centre (WCC) in Aigle, Swi...
- Tropicale Amissa Bongo
[caption id="attachment_109" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stage 1"][/caption] The first major event of the year 2010 will be the class 2.1 Tropicale Amissa Bongo in Gabon, from 19th to 24th January. Teams attending will be: Cofidis, AG2R-L...
- UCI Africa Tour: Tour of Rwanda in the spotlight
The Tour of Rwanda, registered for the first time on the UCI International Calendar as a class 2.2 event, took place from 16th to 24th November. The riders covered a total of 1’069 km with 13’066 m difference of altitude over eight stages. T...
