All Africa Games - Team Time Trial event - 26.4km

Today was the second road event, the men's team time trail. 16 teams participated. Below some pictures as well as the results:

Rank	Country	Time	Gap	KM/Hr
1	RSA	0:35:14		44.96
2	MAURITIUS	0:37:06	0:01:52	42.70
3	ALGERIA	0:37:53	0:02:39	41.81
4	ETHIOPIA	0:38:14	0:03:00	41.43
5	RWANDA	0:38:33	0:03:19	41.09
6	CAMEROON	0:38:47	0:03:33	40.84
7	COTE D'IVOIRE	0:38:51	0:03:37	40.77
8	KENYA	0:39:44	0:04:30	39.87
9	ANGOLA	0:40:04	0:04:50	39.53
10	NIGERIA	0:40:19	0:05:05	39.29
11	ZIMBABWE	0:41:37	0:06:23	38.06
12	GHANA	0:42:51	0:07:37	36.97
13	MOZAMBIQUE	0:43:46	0:08:32	36.19
14	UGANDA	0:43:54	0:08:40	36.08
15	SENEGAL	0:44:03	0:08:49	35.96
16	DR CONGO	0:45:10	0:09:56	35.07

The Mozambique Team time trial was composed of Joao Cuambe, Vicente Mafumo, Mussa Carimo and Gustavo da Silva. The boys worked well and kept a steady rythmn swapping their front rider. On the second loop they caught a Ghanian cyclist who had fallen behind, but behind a strong Zimbabwean team took them on the Kaunda descent where we also lost Betinho, who had given his all. Considering the strong wind which didn't help matters, the average speed was quite good, although we'll have to keep on working on the time trialling skills for the future.

Medal presentation - RSA 1st, Mauritius 2nd and Algeria 3rd

Mozambique Team with trainer, D.S. and support staff



South African Team in action


Algeria coming through fast


Mauritius - lead man is pulling with all his strength


Mozambique team at the bottom of Kaunda, preparing for the sweeping curve


J.P. Van Zyl, UCI Technical Director and Moz Champion Miguel Duarte


Danilo Correia, FMC President, trying out the Team's CTK bikes


Carlos Sales checking out the competition - The SA boys after their 35 minutes of riding had some spare time so "cooled" down on the rollers.


Blog author with Darren Lill, SA Champion, with opposing views on hairstyles

Sunday is the Road race - 8am for ladies and 10am for men. It will be a tough course of 11 laps for a total of 146km. Come out and support the riders and enjoy a circuit road race in the centre of Maputo! We'll need volunteers stationed at strategic spots to offer water and spare wheels in case of flats. Thanks for reading the blog and I hope you enjoyed it.