{"id":40757,"date":"2020-01-25T17:58:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/areruya-joseph-finishes-second-in-la-tropicale\/"},"modified":"2020-01-25T17:57:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T17:57:04","slug":"areruya-joseph-finishes-second-in-la-tropicale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/areruya-joseph-finishes-second-in-la-tropicale\/","title":{"rendered":"Areruya Joseph finishes second in La Tropicale Amissa Bongo 4th stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 23rd, 2020, Cameroonian Clovis Kamzong Abessolo won the 4th stage in a 190 kilometers race which started from Lambar\u00e9n\u00e9 in Western Gabon to Mouila. He used 4 hours 34 minutes and 42 seconds to the finish and was followed by Areruya Joseph who came second.<\/p>\n<p>28-year-old Kamzong usually races for the SNH Velo Club team but was selected to represent Cameroon during La Tropicale Amissa Bongo. He is the first Cameroonian to win the highly competitive cycling race.<\/p>\n<p>La Tropicale Amissa Bongo is happening for the 15th time since it was upgraded to the 2.1 status by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). This year\u2019s edition was remarkable as three Africans won 3 of the stages of the race including Clovis Kamzong from Cameroon, as well as Natnael Tesfazion and Biniam Girmay from Eritrea.<\/p>\n<p>The 4th stage was a very tight race as four cyclists including Joseph Areruya (Rwanda), Clovis Kamzong (Cameroun), Abdul Aziz Nikiema (Burkina Faso) and El Houcaine Sabbahi (Maroc) competed fiercely to reach the finish line overtaking the other racers by 7 minutes and 40 seconds, 160 kilometers to the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>Kamzong won the race by a hair\u2019s breadth overtaking Areruya Joseph by milliseconds. The best place he had ever won was 11th since the competition started. <\/p>\n<p>Nzafashwanayo Jean Claude who also represent Team Rwanda cycling team came 22nd following Kamzong by an interval of 4 minutes and 22 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Eritrean Natnael Tesfazion leads the race followed by Jordan Levasseur from France who usually races for Natura4Ever-Roubaix team. <\/p>\n<p>The Rwandan team is led by Munyaneza Didier who is 14th followed by Nzafashwanayo Jean Claude.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Rwanda won the La Tropicale Amissa Bongo. It is the 9th time Rwanda is taking part in the highly competitive race of the UCI-tour.<\/p>\n<p>On January, 24th, 2020, La Tropicale Amissa Bongo will proceed with the 5th stage where racers will compete in an 82 kilometers race from Lambar\u00e9n\u00e9 to Bifoun.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34586 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/eo-6bizwkacgme5-e9268.jpg\" alt=\"For the first time in history, a Cameroon national won \u2018La Tropicale Amissa Bongo\u2019\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34587 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/eo-7crhxkai4fyd-18c41.jpg\" alt=\"Areruya Joseph finishes second in La Tropicale Amissa Bongo 4th stage\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34588 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/eo-710bx4aoh_x7-bbefb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34589 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/etape_amakipe-72395.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in history, a Cameroon national won \u2018La Tropicale Amissa Bongo\u2019, a road cycling race named in honor of Albertine Amissa Bongo that is held annually in Gabon.<\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","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\/40757","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=40757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40757"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40757"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}