Team Rwanda rider Janvier Hadi endured a poor start at this year’s Tour of Alberta on Wednesday as he finished in 106th position out of 113 competitors of stage one in Lethbridge, Canada.
Janvier Hadi
The 23-year-old Hadi, who rides for Canada’s Garneau-Quebecor cycling team, clocked three hours, 34 minutes and 13 seconds, ten minutes and four seconds behind stage one Dutch winner Tom Dumoulin, who features for Team Giant-Shimanogia of the Netherlands.
Yesterday was stage two (Innisfail to Red Deer).
On Tuesday, Hadi finished 112th out of 118 contenders for the 4-km individual time trial race after using seven minutes and 23 seconds. Dumoulin won the race in exactly six minutes.
The six-day 700-kilometre Tour of Alberta, which is in its second year, started on Tuesday and will run until September 7 with the final stage in Calgary, Canada.
Top three after stage 1
1. Tom Dumoulin (Team Giant-Shimanogia) 3.24’09″
2. Ruben Zepuntke (Bissell Development BDT) 3.24’22″
3. Serghei Tvetcov (Jelly Belly pb Maxxis JBC) 3.24’23″
Garneau-Quebecor, Hadi’s team
43. Adam Matthew Farabaugh 3.25’30″
54. Pierrick Naud 3.25’57″
66. Jacob Kauffmann 3.28’45″
67. Benjamin Chaddock 3.28’48″
72. Simon-Pierre Gauthier 3.29’07″
106. Janvier Hadi 3.34’13″
Tuesday, Time trial (4km)
Top three
1. Tom Dumoulin 0:06’:00’’
2. Serghei Tvetcov 0:06’:14’’
3. Danielson Tom 0:06’:17’’
112. Janvier Hadi 0:07’:23’’
By Richard Bishumba, The New Times