Na­tion­al cy­clist Te­niel Camp­bell fin­ished 23rd from a field of 44 cy­clists in the women's Elite in­di­vid­ual time tri­al when the UCI World Road Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships ped­alled off at the Ki­gali BK Are­na, and end­ed at Ki­gali Con­ven­tion Cen­tre, Rwan­da, on Sun­day.

The 27-year-old com­plet­ed the 31.2 kilo­me­tres course in 48 min­utes, 25.09 sec­onds to fin­ish five min­utes, 15.75 sec­onds be­hind the gold medal win­ner, Marlen Reuss­er of Switzer­land, who took gold in 43:09.34 with Hol­land's An­na Van Der Breggen tak­ing the sil­ver medal in 44:01.23 and her coun­try­woman De­mi Vol­ler­ing, the sil­ver in 44:14.07.

So far this sea­son, Camp­bell has two bronze medals at the Pan Amer­i­can Con­ti­nen­tal Cy­cling Cham­pi­ons, in the Time Tri­al and Road Race, while she was sec­ond in the Grote Pri­js Yvonne Reyn­ders in Bel­gium last month.

To­day, in the men's Un­der-23 in­di­vid­ual time tri­al to be con­test­ed over 31.2 km, T&T's Ja­di­an Neaves, 19, will be one of 61 com­peti­tors go­ing af­ter a podi­um fin­ish.

The African is host­ing the UCI Road World Cham­pi­onships for the first time, with the cap­i­tal of Rwan­da, Ki­gali, pro­vid­ing the stage for this his­toric week of rac­ing (Sep­tem­ber 21-28).

Al­ready known for its an­nu­al Tour du Rwan­da, the African na­tion in the Great Rift Val­ley of East Africa now wel­comes Ju­nior, U-23 and Elite ath­letes rac­ing for the pres­ti­gious rain­bow jer­sey.

It isn’t for noth­ing that Rwan­da is nick­named the “land of a thou­sand hills”, and for many rid­ers it will be their first ex­pe­ri­ence rid­ing on this chal­leng­ing ter­rain.

These UCI Road World Cham­pi­onships are an­oth­er step in the glob­al­i­sa­tion of cy­cling and come at a time when African rid­ers are in­creas­ing­ly mak­ing in­ter­na­tion­al head­lines.

They are al­so an op­por­tu­ni­ty and added mo­ti­va­tion for the younger gen­er­a­tion of African rid­ers to com­pete and shine on the glob­al stage.

To this end, the UCI, its World Cy­cling Cen­tre (WCC) and the UCI WCC Con­ti­nen­tal De­vel­op­ment Satel­lite in Paarl, South Africa, have been prepar­ing the most tal­ent­ed for this sig­nif­i­cant event with a ded­i­cat­ed Africa 2025 strat­e­gy.

An­oth­er new fea­ture at the 2025 UCI Road World Cham­pi­onships will be the first sep­a­rate races for Women U-23 rid­ers. Al­though UCI world ti­tles (in­di­vid­ual time tri­al and road race) have been award­ed for this cat­e­go­ry since 2022 in Wol­lon­gong, Aus­tralia, un­til now, they have raced along­side the Women Elite.