{"id":36306,"date":"2017-11-19T22:19:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T22:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-areruya-wins-tour-du-rwanda-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-11-22T08:23:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T08:23:48","slug":"rwandan-areruya-wins-tour-du-rwanda-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-areruya-wins-tour-du-rwanda-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan Areruya wins Tour du Rwanda 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Areruya, also known as ‘Kimasa’ demonstrated high competencies during the competition by retaining the yellow jersey from first days of the competition.<\/p>\n

“I am very happy, this is a very tough competition where everyone wishes to win, but my pleasure is to see the competition won by a Rwandan” Areruya told the media <\/p>\n

Born in Rwamagana District, Eastern Province, the 21-year-old played for Les Amis Sportifs, a Rwandan based team before heading to South Africa<\/p>\n

Commenting on Areruya’s win, his colleague Valens Ndayisenga said “Areruya tried his chance in ast sessions but he made it today, he has a good future in cycling”<\/p>\n

The Minister of Sports and Culture, Julienne Uwacu said that it is much pleasure to see the competition retained by Rwandan adding that all players demonstrated competition spirit.<\/p>\n

“We are very happy to see how all things were organised and went smoothly. There was high turn up” she said<\/p>\n

“Congratulations to Joseph Areruya for winning Tour du Rwanda 2017, we are proud of Team Rwanda for the job well done” Uwacu expressed through her twitter wall <\/p>\n

{{Top three on the list}}<\/p>\n

1. Joseph Areruya (Dimension Data for Qubeka) used 20:21\u2019:29\u201d in a total of 821 kilometers <\/p>\n

2. Eyob Metkel (Dimension Data for Qubeka)<\/p>\n

3. Suleiman Kangagi (Bike Aid)
\nIn a total, 73 cyclists started the competition, but 59 played the last session <\/p>\n

It is the fourth time the competition won by a Rwandan. In 2014 and 2016 it was won by Valens Ndayisenga and 2015 by Jean Bosco Nsengimana<\/p>\n

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A Rwandan Cyclist, Joseph Areruya playing for Dimension Data Qhubeka, a South African based team has won an international cycling competition, Tour du Rwanda 2017 which was wound up on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36306"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36306"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}