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<\/a>Image credit: www.supersport.co.za<\/span>\n<\/div>\nThe organisers of the award, who also organise an annual event La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, released a press statement listing the 24 nominated athletes for the second consecutive edition of the award. The current titleholder is Eritrean professional cyclist, Natnael Berhane.<\/p>\n
As the name of the award suggests, the nominated cyclists are all of an African nationality, regardless of whether they race for a pro-continental team or a foreign professional team. It is also open to all African riders selected to represent their national team.<\/p>\n
The jury is chaired by the five times winner of the Tour de France, Bernard Hinault, with a prestigious member, Chris Froome, winner of the 2013 Tour de France. The diversity of the jury ranges from various backgrounds and various functions (trainers, riders, organisers, journalists, etc.).<\/p>\n
The winner will be officially announced at the end of December 2013, and the prize will be awarded at the ninth edition of the La Tropicale Amissa Bongo in January 2014.<\/p>\n
Nominated cyclists for 2013 Best African Cyclist of the Year Trophy<\/strong><\/p>\n ABELOUACHE Essaid\u2013 Morocco \u2013 33 \u2013 National Team of Morocco Four South African cyclists \u2013 Dylan Girdlestone, Daryl Impey, Reinhardt Janse van Rensburg and Louis Meintjes \u2013 have been shortlisted among 24 nominated candidates for the 2013 Best African Cyclist of the Year award. Image credit: www.supersport.co.za The organisers of the award, who also organise an annual event La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, released a press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5068,402,4372,397,1746],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-best-african-cyclist","tag-daryl-impey","tag-dylan-girdlestone","tag-louis-meintjes","tag-reinhardt-janse-van-rensburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21394","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21394"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
BARBARI Adil \u2013 Algeria \u2013 20 \u2013 V\u00e9lo-Club Sovac (ALG)
BERHANE Natnael \u2013 Eritrea \u2013 22 \u2013 Team Europcar (FRA)
CHABANE Hichem \u2013 Algeria\u2013 25 \u2013 V\u00e9lo-Club Sovac (ALG)
CHTIOUI Rafaa \u2013 Tunisia \u2013 27 \u2013 National Team of Tunisia
CISSE Issiaka \u2013 Ivory Coast \u2013 22 \u2013 Cycling World Center UCI (SUI)
DEBESAY Mekseb \u2013 Eritrea \u2013 22 \u2013 MTN-Qhubeka Cycling Center Africa Team (RSA)
EYOB Metkel \u2013 Eritrea \u2013 20 \u2013 National Team of Eritrea
GIRDLESTONE Dylan \u2013 South Africa \u2013 24 \u2013 Westvaal-BMC (RSA)
GRMAY Tsgabu \u2013 Ethiopia \u2013 22 \u2013 MTN-Qhubeka (RSA)
HADI Janvier \u2013 Rwanda \u2013 22 ans \u2013 National Team of Rwanda
HADDI Soufian \u2013 Morocco \u2013 22 \u2013 National Team of Morocco
HANNACHI Abdelbaset \u2013 Algeria \u2013 28 \u2013 GSP Alg\u00e9rie (ALG)
IMPEY Daryl \u2013 South Africa \u2013 28 \u2013 Orica-GreenEdge (AUS)
JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinhardt \u2013 South Africa \u2013 24 – Argos-Shimano (NED)
JELLOUL Adil \u2013 Morocco \u2013 31 – National Team of Morocco
KUDUS Merhawi \u2013 Eritrea \u2013 19 \u2013 Cycling World Center UCI (SUI)
LAGAB Azzedine \u2013 Algeria \u2013 25 \u2013 GSP Alg\u00e9rie (ALG)
MEINTJES Louis \u2013 South Africa \u2013 21 \u2013 MTN-Qhubeka (RSA)
NDAYISENGA Valens \u2013 Rwanda \u2013 19 \u2013 National Team of Rwanda
NIKIEMA Abdoul Aziz \u2013 Burkina Faso \u2013 24 \u2013 National Team of Burkina Faso
NGUE NGOCK Yves \u2013 Cameroon \u2013 24 \u2013 AVC Aurillac (Fra) \/ SNH V\u00e9lo-Club (CAM)
OKUBAMARIAM Tesfom \u2013 Eritrea \u2013 22 \u2013 MTN-Qhubeka Cycling Center Africa Team (RSA)
TEKLEHAIMANOT Daniel \u2013 Eritrea \u2013 25 \u2013 Orica-GreenEdge (AUS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"