EritreanCycling

The archive

Legends

Eritrean cycling did not begin when the world started watching. This archive recovers the riders and races of a heritage that stretches back to 1939 — translated, sourced, and told in full for the first time.

Italian colonial era, 1930s

Ghebremariam Ghebru and the 1939 Victory

Decades before Eritrea appeared on a cycling broadcast, an Asmara rider beat the colonizers at their own sport. The story the record books skipped.