{"id":44457,"date":"2021-09-23T10:52:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T10:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-to-host-2025-road-world-championships\/"},"modified":"2021-09-25T07:31:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T07:31:03","slug":"rwanda-to-host-2025-road-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-to-host-2025-road-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda to host 2025 Road World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The development has been announced by Rwanda Cycling Federation (FERWACY) via Twitter handle. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rwanda (Kigali) will host the UCI Road World Cycling Championships 2025. It will be the first time for Africa to host this world event,&#8221; reads the tweet. <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda has been competing with Morocco to host the 2025 UCI Road World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The UCI Road World Championship attracts about 5,000 cyclists, and over 20,000 delegates.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 Road World Championships will be held in Wollongong, Australia, with Glasgow and Zurich hosting the event in 2023 and 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda wins the bid following the visit of the President of the International Cycling Union (UCI), David Lappartient to the country in May 2021 as he attended Tour du Rwanda.  <\/p>\n<p>Lappartient presided over the launch of the tournament on Sunday 2nd May 2021 where Colombian, Brayan Sanchez won the first stage.<\/p>\n<p>He was accompanied by UCI technical team that would assess Rwanda\u2019s capacity to host 2025 UCI Road World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>As the race kicked off, Lappartient commended preparations of this year\u2019s edition that ran from 2nd to 9th May 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda submitted a bid for the races in September 2019 after the UCI invited bids from African nations, with Morocco also bidding.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39594 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/tour-2.jpg\" alt=\"Racers during the recently concluded Tour du Rwanda 2021.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda has won the bid to host the 2025 Road World Championships, becoming the first African nation to host the event.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured-news-home","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\/44457","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44457"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44457"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}