Final stage of Tour du Rwanda cancelled due to adverse weather

The Frenchman Fabien Doubey won the Tour du Rwanda on Sunday, March 2nd in the polemic. The last stage was cancelled, and the rider of TotalEnergies is not a stranger.

On Sunday, March 2, 2025, Fabien Doubey (Total Energies) won the Tour of Rwanda. The cyclist, who lives in Besançon (Doubs), offered his first professional victory at the end of a last stage cancelled due to a capricious weather.

The Frenchman Fabien Doubey of the TotalEnergys team won the Tour of Rwanda on Sunday after the cancellation of the seventh and final stage due to the rain and slippery roads in Kigali. The 31-year-old rider, who had taken the lead in the general classification the day before, took his first victory in the professional class with six seconds ahead of Eritrean Henok Mulubrhan and eleven on German Oliver Mattheis. The race ended in line with the c…

Tour du Rwanda #FromThePaddock Live Blog - Team Africa Rising

Welcome to our live #FromThePaddock blog here at the 2025 Tour du Rwanda, in central Africa!We will be sharing content in real time across our social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter, BlueSky, LinkedIn) so please do give these a follow, as well as more in-depth articles and interviews with key riders, team management, UCI officials and many more present at this incredible race.3 March: So we woke up to the news that, accord…

Frenchman Fabien Doubey of Total Energies won the 17th edition of the Tour du Rwanda 2024. The race was divided into six stages, with the last stage being abandoned due to heavy rain in Kigali City. The Tour du RWANDA 2025 started with 69 riders and reached the final day with 64 remaining. The riders set off from the Kigali Convention Centre and travelled through different parts of Kigali City. The roads to be used in stage 7 were changed after…

Since the creation of the race in 1988, no French rider had written his name on the Tour du Rwanda. Fabien Doubey (TotalEnergies) put an end to this shortage by imposing himself this Sunday, March 2, 2025 in the stage race organized in Africa. While he had taken the lead in the general race this Saturday, the 31-year-old rider ahead of Henok Mulubrhan by six seconds and the German Oliver Mattheis by eleven seconds. At 31, Doubey won his first pr…