MTN Qhubeka / 2012 season

This article lists the achievements and riders of the MTN Qhubeka cycling team in the 2012 season .

The UCI announced on January 26, 2012 that the team, as one of three African Continental teams, had the right to start all races in the first and second UCI categories of the UCI Africa Tour 2012 due to its placement in a fictional ranking at the start of the season .

Success in the UCI Africa Tour

date	run	Cat.	driver
1st March	South African Championship - Individual Time Trial	NC	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
4th of March	South African Championship - Road Race (U23)	NC	Calvin Beneke
March 23	1st stage Tour du Maroc	2.2	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
25th March	3rd stage Tour du Maroc	2.2	Arran Brown
26th of March	4th stage Tour du Maroc	2.2	Arran Brown
27th of March	5th stage Tour du Maroc	2.2	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
28th March	6th stage Tour du Maroc	2.2	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
March 30	8th stage Tour du Maroc	2.2	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
March 31	9th stage Tour du Maroc	2.2	Arran Brown
March 31	Namibian Championship - Road Race	NC	Lotto Peter
April 1st	10th stage Tour du Maroc	2.2	Arran Brown
April 1st	Namibian Championship - Individual Time Trial	NC	Lotto Peter
March 23rd - April 1st	Overall ranking Tour du Maroc	2.2	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
30th May	1st stage Tour of Eritrea	2.2	Jani Tewelde
31. May	2nd stage Tour of Eritrea	2.2	Jacques Janse van Rensburg
2th of June	4th stage Tour of Eritrea	2.2	Jani Tewelde
May 30th - June 3rd	Overall ranking Tour of Eritrea	2.2	Jacques Janse van Rensburg
23rd June	Eritrean Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)	CN	Jani Tewelde
October 21	Rwandan Championship - Road Race	NC	Adrien Niyonshuti

Success in the UCI Europe Tour

date	run	Cat.	driver
April 28	4th stage Tour de Bretagne	2.2	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
April 25th - May 1st	Overall ranking Tour de Bretagne	2.2	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
May 4th	Prologue Ronde van Overijssel	2.2	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
4th to 5th May	Overall ranking Ronde van Overijssel	2.2	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
May 6th	Circuit de Wallonie	1.2	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
June 9th	Ronde van Zeeland Seaports	1.1	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
15th of August	Prologue Volta a Portugal (EZF)	2.1	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
26th of August	10th stage Volta a Portugal	2.1	Reinardt Janse van Rensburg

Disposals - additions

Accesses	Team 2011	Departures	Team 2012
Jacques Janse van Rensburg	Burgos 2016-Castilla y León	James Tennent	Nu water
Jim Songezo	Team Bonitas	Dylan Girdlestone	Unknown
Tesfay Abraha	Neoprofi	Charles Keey	Unknown
Calvin Beneke	Neoprofi	Stanley Namanyana	Unknown
Tsgabu Grmay	Neoprofi
Meron Russom	Neoprofi
Jani Tewelde	Neoprofi
Jacobus Venter (from June 27th)	Differdange-Magic-SportFood.de
Ferekalsi Debessay (from June 27th)	Neoprofi

team

Surname	birthday	nationality
Tesfay Abraha	3rd October 1990	Eritrea
Calvin Beneke	December 24, 1991	South Africa
Arran Brown	March 24, 1985	South Africa
Ferekalsi Debessay	January 10, 1983	Eritrea
Tsgabu Grmay	August 25, 1991	Ethiopia
Jacques Janse van Rensburg	September 6, 1987	South Africa
Reinardt Janse van Rensburg	3rd February 1989	South Africa
Lotto Peter	3rd December 1987	Namibia
Johannes Nel	November 28, 1991	South Africa
Dennis van Niekerk	October 19, 1984	South Africa
Adrien Niyonshuti	2nd February 1987	Rwanda
Bradley Potgieter	May 11, 1989	South Africa
Meron Russom	March 12, 1987	Eritrea
Jim Songezo	17th September 1990	South Africa
Jani Tewelde	October 1, 1990	Eritrea
Jacobus Venter	February 13, 1987	South Africa
Martin Wesemann	March 19, 1984	South Africa

Web links

• MTN Qhubeka / season 2012 in the database of Radsportseiten.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UCI Press release from January 26th, 2012: UCI Continental Circuits: publication of the list of UCI Continental teams automatically invited  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.