Natnael Berhane
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| Full name | Natnael Berhane | |||||||||||||||
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5 January 1991 Asmara, Eritrea | |||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Dimension Data | |||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||
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| 2010–2012 | Eritrea National Team | |||||||||||||||
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| 2013–2014 | Team Europcar[1] | |||||||||||||||
| 2015 | MTN–Qhubeka | |||||||||||||||
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Infobox last updated on 17 February 2015 | ||||||||||||||||
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Natnael Berhane (born 5 January 1991 in Asmara) is an Eritrean professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team Team Dimension Data. He is a two time African cycling champion in 2012 and 2013.
Career
In 2013, Berhane joined Team Europcar. Berhane won the queen stage of the 2013 Tour of Turkey by powering away from the small lead group in the last 200 meters of a long, steep climb.[2] With the provisional suspension of Mustafa Sayar for an earlier EPO positive in the Tour of Algeria, the first place on the General Classification was awarded to Berhane.[3] In early 2014 Turkish Cycling Federation stripped off Mustafa and announced Berhane's victory.[4] At the beginning of the season, Berhane won La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, thanks to the bonus seconds awarded during the intermediate sprints on the last stage. He was the first African winner of this race.[5]
After two years with Europcar for his professional debut, Berhane joined African Pro-Continental cycling team MTN–Qhubeka for the 2015 cycling season.[6]
Palmares
- 2010
- 1st Overall Tour of Eritrea
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd Overall Tour of Rwanda
- 1st Stage 7
- 2011
- 1st African Road Race Championships
- 1st Stage 6 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
- 3rd Overall Tour d'Algérie
- 1st Stage 1
- 2012
- 1st Overall Tour d'Algérie
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st African Road Race Championships
- 2013
- 1st African Team Time Trial Championships
- 1st
Overall Tour of Turkey
- 1st Stage 3
- 2014
- 1st
National Time Trial Championships - 1st
Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
- 1st
Sprints classification
- 1st
- 5th Tour du Finistère
- 2015
- 1st African Team Time Trial Championships
- 1st National Road Race Championships
- 5th Overall Tour of Austria
References
- ↑ "Team Europcar (EUC) – FRA". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- ↑ "Berhane wins queen stage at Tour of Turkey". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). 23 April 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ↑ "Doping Tour of Turkey win could pass to Natnael Berhane". CapitalEritrea.com. 15 July 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
- ↑ "Tour of Turkey Victory Passed to Eritrean Natnael Berhane".
- ↑ "Berhane first African winner of Tropicale Amissa Bongo". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). 20 January 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ↑ O'Shea, Sadhbh (8 October 2014). "MTN-Qhubeka willing to join WorldTour in 2015". Cyclingnews.com (Immediate Media Company). Retrieved 17 February 2015.
Interim team manager Brian Smith has been very busy this winter, adding a number of big names to their roster including Edvald Boasson Hagen, Tyler Farrar, Matt Goss and Natnael Berhane.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Natnael Berhane. |
- Natnael Berhane profile at Cycling Archives
- Team Europcar Profile
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