{"id":19765,"date":"2015-06-26T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/06\/26\/eritrean-time-trial-championships-daniel-teklehaimanot-wins-gold-r2848\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:27:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:27:17","slug":"eritrean-time-trial-championships-daniel-teklehaimanot-wins-gold-r2848","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/eritrean-time-trial-championships-daniel-teklehaimanot-wins-gold-r2848\/","title":{"rendered":"Eritrean Time Trial Championships: Daniel Teklehaimanot Wins Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Teklehaimanot has won the Eritrean national time trial championships after beating the MTN-Qhubeka Feeder Team rider, Meron Teshome by just 4 seconds over the 38km course. Natnael Berhane made it an even better day for MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung by finishing in 3rd place.<\/p>\n

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It would be an extremely long day of competition at the Eritrean national time trial champs today as the first rider would start as early as 06:00am. A total of 108 riders would set off in the race against the clock and after a few delays during the course of the day, the last 8 riders finally got underway around 17:00pm.<\/p>\n

Merhawi Kudus was one of the first starters and his early benchmark would stand the test of time right up until the last wave of 8 riders set off. Teshome would better the time set by Merhawi by just 33 seconds to briefly go into the lead. Daniel soon followed the MTN-Qhubeka Feeder Team rider home and would post a new best time by 4 seconds. Defending champion, Natnael was the last rider to finish and he would split Teshome and Merhawi to claim third place.<\/p>\n

Overall it was a great day of racing for MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung with the 3 riders in the top 4 and the other rider coming from the MTN-Qhubeka Feeder Team. Daniel’s victory also means that the national time trial jersey of Eritrea will debut at the Tour de France when stage 1 gets underway on the 4th of July.<\/p>\n

\nI am very happy to take this victory. It was a long day but to finally end with a win is a great feeling. To wear the flag of Eritrea at the Tour de France will be very special and I will try to do everyone proud. Thank you to everyone for all the support.
\nDaniel Teklehaimanot – Rider<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel Teklehaimanot has won the Eritrean national time trial championships after beating the MTN-Qhubeka Feeder Team rider, Meron Teshome by just 4 seconds over the 38km course. Natnael Berhane made it an even better day for MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung by finishing in 3rd place. It would be an extremely long day of competition at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[809,3875,3285],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-19765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-daniel-teklehaimanot","tag-eritrean-time-trial-champs","tag-team-mtn-qhubeka-p-b-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19765"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=19765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}