Burgos BH signed Eritrean Merhawi Kudus

He Burgos BH will have a more international squad next season, with riders from Europe in its ranks, America, Asia, Oceania and, now, Africa too. He Eritrean Merhawi Kudus (Asmara, 1994) He will ride for the purple team in the 2025 and 2026 seasons He is a veteran and talented climber, with extensive experience in the top categories of teams, such as Dimension Data, Astana or EF Education. He especially excelled in stage tours, participating in nine grand tours, including six editions of The Return. He has prestigious achievements on his record, such as 2019 Rwanda Tourand this year he completed a great season in the trials of asia, remains at the door of victory at Turkey tour and the Twe are from Japanin addition to the addition of thirty top 10s in stages and general classification.

Holy (30 years old) has been one of the leaders of African cycling in recent years. Almost his entire career as a professional was built on UCI World Tourwhich allowed him to compete in the most important races in the world, including a Tour de France, two Giros d’Italia and six Tours of Spain. In fact, in the 2017 edition of the Spanish grand round he finished second on the stage Alcossebre. Merhawi debuted at the highest level with MTN-Qhubeka in 2014at the age of only 20, and that same year he was close to winning the Langkawi Tourme, finishing second overall.

The Eritrean soon stood out as a stage lap racer, finishing in the top 10 in events such as the Tour of Oman, the Vuelta a la Valencian Community wave Return to Burgos and, in 2019, already in the range of Astana Pro Teamwon the general classification of the Tour of Rwanda, a test in which he would also take three stage wins. In 2018 he was proclaimed champion of Eritrea, a title he would repeat in 2021 and 2022. 2021 was another good year for him, finishing second in Race Adriatica Ionica, fifth in Turkey tour and eighth to Route of Occitania.

After two years in EF Education-Easy Postin 2024 he dropped to the continental category with Malaysia’s Terengganu Cycling Teamwith whom a great season ended. He started the year by being tenth in the AlUla Tour and ninth to Muscat Classic and won four medals at the African Games held in Ethiopia. In the spring he showed his best level to finish second in the general classification of Turkey Tour, Kumamo Tour and Japan Tour in a row To round out the season he took the stage and overall victory in Indonesia Banyuwangi Ijen Tour. Kudus will now follow in the footsteps of other African runners such as Temesgen Buru (2016) and Willie Smit (2020 and 2021), who have run for Burgos BH.

Merhawi Kudus: “After a great season with the Terengganu Cycling Team, I am very happy to return to the professional peloton next year with Burgos-BH. I am very grateful to have received this opportunity. I am very excited and looking forward to joining the team to show my potential.

”Damien Garcia (sports director): “Merhawi is a high level and very complete cyclist. Above all, he is a climber, but he is also good at time trials and has great speed. He has many years of WorldTour experience and has ridden in all three grand tours. We have been following him for several months and we believe that he will help us a lot in the stage races. He is excited to join the Burgos BH project. I hope he can adjust to the team as soon as possible. His arrival is a plus to raise the level of the team. “We are very happy with his signing and we are excited to start working with him for 2025.”