Second NC-race for mixed nations from Africa, facing a 170km hilly parcours.
Three nationas - Tunesia, Morocco and Algeria - will be at the startlist with 6 riders from Algeria as the biggest group.
As for the participating MG-teams, Jaguar will feature 6 riders in total, making it the strongest team in terms of numbers.
Morocco
Algeria
Tarik Chaoufi (Kenya Airways)
Hichem Chaabane (PFG-Armavia)
Essaid Abelouache (Jaguar)
Youcef Reguigui (Jaguar)
Mouhssine Lahsaini (Jaguar)
Abdelmalek Madani (Jaguar)
Adil Jelloul (Simply Red Bull)
Faycal Hamza (Jaguar)
Soufiane Haddi (FC Barcelona)
Abdalla Ben Youcef (MTN)
Adel Barbari (FC Barcelona)
Tunesia
Rafaâ Chtioui (UBS-BMC)
Riadh Ghdamsi (Kenya Airways)
Souheil Khederi (Jaguar)
Maher Hasnaoui (AMEX)
No need to say that the breakaway will be dangerous as hell (yet again) - so the following three riders (covering all participating nations) may hope for some glory today:
Ghdamsi (Tunesia/Kenya Airways)
Haddi (Morocco/Barcelona)
Ben Youcef (Algeria/MTN)
The pressure is on Jaguar (well, and on favorite Chaoufi) to do something, as the team couldn't place a rider in that break.
And there's something like a chase, yes... but there's nothing like a success.. Abelouache would later attack the bunch and try to bridge the gap solo..
But he would finish 5 minutes behind the leading three, who grab their respective road titles each!
Up for the 50km flat ITT.. time for the big guns (ProTour-participant Chtioui in particular) to show what they got!
Morocco/ Adil Jelloul (Simply RB) takes the Moroccan TT-title ahead of Lahsaini (Jaguar)!
Algeria/ It ain't a total disaster for Jaguar after yesterday's fail in the road race, as Abdelmalek Madani takes the Algerian title ahead of teammate Hamza!
Tunesia/ The Tunesian TT-competition has a somehow clear favorite (Chtioui), but promises the most interesting race with a quite strong competitor (Ghdamsi)..
..and Ghdamsi - winner of the road race - seems top motivated and puts a hell lot of pressure on Chtioui! At the split, he leads the race by 3" - will Chtioui manage to fight back?
Surprisinly, not! Chtioui actually had the better second half on the road, but he could only "narrow" the already small gap to 2" - so Ghdamsi takes the double!
Morocco
Algeria
Tunesia
