Jeanne D'arc Girubuntu

Jeanne D'arc Girubuntu

Girubuntu at the 2015 World Cup
To person
Full name	Jeanne D'arc Girubuntu
Date of birth	May 6, 1995
nation	Rwanda
discipline	Road cycling
Most important successes
African cycling championships 2016 - individual time trial
Last updated: October 12, 2018

Jeanne D'arc Girubuntu (born May 6, 1995 in Rwamagana ) is a Rwandan cyclist .

In 2013, Jeanne D'arc Girubuntu, who had only learned to ride a bike two years earlier, finished eighth in the junior road race at the African Road Cycling Championships in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt . The following year she was Rwandan double champion in road racing and in the individual time trial . In January 2015 she spent a month at the World Cycling Center Africa in Potchefstroom, South Africa . Then she finished fifth in the women's road race and sixth in the individual time trial at the African Cycling Championships in Wartburg , also South Africa.

Because of this achievement, Girubuntu was the first woman from Rwanda to be invited by the World Cycling Association UCI to the World Cycling Center in Aigle in Switzerland for a three-month training course. In September 2015, she was the first black woman from Africa to compete in the road world championships . In the individual time trial, she finished 7: 11.84 minutes behind the winner, Linda Villumsen from New Zealand, in the last of 44 places.

In 2016, Jeanne D'arc Girubuntu was nominated to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , but did not start. The reason for this is unknown. At the 2017 African Championships she finished eighth in the individual time trial. In 2018, she and the Rwandan team won the bronze medal in the team time trial at the African Championships . In 2019 she finished sixth in the individual time trial and eighth in the road race at the African Championships .

successes

2014

• Rwandan champion - road race, individual time trial

2016

• African Championship - Individual Time Trial
• Rwandan champion - road race, individual time trial

2018

• African Championship - Team Time Trial (with Beatha Ingabire , Mangifique Manizabayo and Jacqueline Tuyishimire )

Web links

Commons : Jeanne D'arc Girubuntu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jeanne D'arc Girubuntu in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Jeanne D'arc Girubuntu in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Emily Conrad-Pickles: Team Rwanda's Only Female Rider: I find freedom on the bike and prejudice off it. In: total Women's Cycling. February 10, 2016, accessed February 17, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Usher Komugisha: Girubuntu to train at the World Cycling Center. In: The New Times. March 11, 2015, accessed September 24, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Usher Komugisha: Girubuntu writes history at World Cycling Championships. In: The New Times. September 24, 2015, accessed September 24, 2015 .