Daniel Teklehaimanot

Daniel Teklehaimanot Girmazion (Tigrinya: ዳንኤል ተክለሃይማኖት ግርማጽዮን, Tigrinya pronunciation: [tɐklɐhaymanot]; born 10 November 1988)[3] is a professional road racing cyclist from Eritrea,[4] who last rode for UCI Professional Continental team Cofidis.

[8] He participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics being the first Eritrean competing in a sport other than athletics; he finished the road race in the 73rd position.

[1] In 2015, at the Critérium du Dauphiné, he won the first World Tour jersey in MTN–Qhubeka's history by taking the mountains competition.

[10] In July of the year, Daniel also became the first rider from an African team to wear the polka dot jersey at the Tour de France.

[12] He was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia where he briefly held the Mountains Classification jersey.

Teklehaimanot at the 2015 Tour de France