{"id":57722,"date":"2024-06-17T10:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/cycling\/natnael-tesfatsion-wins-eritrean-cycling-championship\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T10:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:40:24","slug":"natnael-tesfatsion-wins-eritrean-cycling-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/cycling\/natnael-tesfatsion-wins-eritrean-cycling-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Natnael Tesfatsion Wins Eritrean Cycling Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"press-body-in\">\n                            <span><br \/>\n                                                            ASMARA, Eritrea, June 17, 2024\/APO Group\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Natnael Tesfatsion, a member of the American Team Lidl Trek, emerged as the winner of the Eritrean Cycling Championship 2024. Natnael completed the 173.4 km race in 4 hours, 7 minutes, and 52 seconds, securing the Gold Medal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Aklilu Arefaine, a member of the Belgian Team Wanty-ReUz-Technord, and Metkel Eyob, a member of the Malaysian Terengganu Cycling Team, won second and third place respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Professional riders Merhawi Kudus, Biniam Girmay, and Henok Mulubrhan finished in fourth, fifth, and sixth place respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the Under 23 category, Aklilu Arefaine, his teammate Mewael Girmay, and Yafet Mulugeta from Team Eri-Tel secured first, second, and third place.<\/p>\n<p>In the females\u2019 elite category, Ksanet Woldemicael from Sorair-Sawa won first place, while Adiam Dawit from Denden Club and Romna Gu\u2019ush from Denden Club claimed second and third place respectively.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/natnael-tesfatsion-wins-eritrean-cycling-championship?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASMARA, Eritrea, June 17, 2024\/APO Group\/ &#8212; Natnael Tesfatsion, a member of the American Team Lidl Trek, emerged as the winner of the Eritrean Cycling Championship 2024. Natnael completed the 173.4 km race in 4 hours, 7 minutes, and 52 seconds, securing the Gold Medal. Aklilu Arefaine, a member of the Belgian Team Wanty-ReUz-Technord, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/0cca64479b3fda2","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/0cca64479b3fda2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}