Adrien Niyonshuti

Adrien Niyonshuti

Adrien Niyonshuti (2014)
To person
Date of birth	2nd February 1987
nation	Rwanda
discipline	Road / mountain bike
To the team
Current team	NTT Pro Cycling
function	driver
Last updated: June 24, 2017

Adrien Niyonshuti (born February 2, 1987 in Rwamagana ) is a Rwandan road cyclist and mountain biker .

Athletic career

Adrien Niyonshuti started cycling in 2003. At the Tour of Rwanda he made it into the top ten five times in a row, in 2006 and 2008 he won the overall standings. In 2008 he won three stages, among other things.

He has been riding for the South African Continental Team MTN Cycling since 2009 . In the 2009 season he took part in the Tour of Ireland . It was his first race outside the African continent. In autumn 2009 he was tenth in the individual time trial and in the road race at the African Championships in Namibia , so that he won the bronze medal in the U23 class in both races.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Niyonshuti was his team's flag bearer during the opening ceremony .

Rising from Ashes

In the same year, the multi-award-winning documentary Rising from Ashes was shot about the story of Adrien Niyonshuti, his family and his cycling career . In the genocide in Rwanda , he lost 60 relatives, including six of his brothers; his mother's entire family was wiped out. To cope with his pain, he started cycling in 2003. In 2006 he competed in his first mountain bike race , where he was noticed by the cycling coach Jock Boyer . As a result of the film, the Rising from Ashes Foundation was established.

Successes - road

2009

• African Championship - Individual Time Trial (U23)
• African Championship - Road Race (U23)

2010

• Rwandan champion - road race

2011

• Rwandan champion - road race
• Mountain classification Tour of Rwanda

2012

• Rwandan champion - road race

2016

• Rwandan champion - individual time trial

2017

• Rwandan champion - individual time trial

2018

• African Championship - Team Time Trial

Successes - mountain bike

2012

• African Championship - Cross Country

Teams

• 2009 MTN Cycling
• 2010 MTN Energade
• 2011 MTN Qhubeka
• 2012 MTN Qhubeka
• 2013 MTN Qhubeka
• 2014 MTN Qhubeka
• 2015 MTN-Qhubeka
• 2016 Team Dimension Data
• 2017 Team Dimension Data

literature

• Tim Lewis: The Land of Second Chance: the amazing story of the Rwandan cycling team . Translated from the English by Olaf Bentkämper. Bielefeld: Covadonga, 2013 ISBN 978-3-936973-87-7

Web links

Commons : Adrien Niyonshuti  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Adrien Niyonshuti in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Adrien Niyonshuti in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Adrien Niyonshuti in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ^ About the Film - Rising From Ashes. In: risingfromashesthemovie.com. Archived from the original on February 27, 2016 ; accessed on February 29, 2016 .