{"id":100246,"date":"2025-04-29T18:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/ikundabayo-admits-he-still-has-a-long-way-to-go"},"modified":"2025-04-29T18:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:08:33","slug":"ikundabayo-admits-he-still-has-a-long-way-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/ikundabayo-admits-he-still-has-a-long-way-to-go","title":{"rendered":"Ikundabayo admits he still has a \u2018long way\u2019 to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>He may have won his first medal at the 2025 Race to Remember on Sunday, but cyclist Roben Ikundabayo insists the best is yet to come from him.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Muhazi Cycling Generation rider won the race in Kigali on Sunday, April 27, covering the distance of 113 km from and to Canal Olympia Rebero through Nemba, Bugesera, in 2 hours 44 minutes and 46 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>He beat the likes Shemu Sengiyumva of Java Inovotec Pro Team and Benediction Club star Vainqueur Masengesho who both crossed the finish line three seconds later.<\/p>\n<p>The young cyclist has been showing improvements in his recent performance but admits that he still has a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still have long way to go, regarding my career. It is now time to work hard so that I can win more races,\u201d Ikundabayo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is big challenge for me and it is something I am delighted for after winning this race, I am going to work hard so that I can win more races which can improve my confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy with the way my team helped me, from my coach to my teammates and they made sure that I won the race. I am going to give everything for my career and I am confident I can keep doing better by improving my game,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Race to Remember&#8221; is specifically designed to commemorate the lives of cyclists slain during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n<p>Ikundabayo won the race, taking it away from 2024 winner Eric Manizabayo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. He may have won his first medal at the 2025 Race to Remember on Sunday, but cyclist Roben Ikundabayo insists the best is yet to come from him. The 19-year-old Muhazi Cycling Generation rider won the race in Kigali on Sunday, April 27, covering the distance of 113 km from and to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":100245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[924,7299,758],"class_list":["post-100246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-cycling","tag-roben-ikundabayo","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ikundabayo admits he still has a \u2018long way\u2019 to go - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/ikundabayo-admits-he-still-has-a-long-way-to-go\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ikundabayo admits he still has a \u2018long way\u2019 to go\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. 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