Team Type 1 rid­ers dom­i­nated the pro­logue time trial at the Tour of Rwanda, with Kiel Reijnen win­ning the stage and Joey Rosskopf and Ty Magner fin­ish­ing sec­ond and third.

Reijnen cov­ered the four-kilometre pro­logue around Kigali in a time of 4:22. He beat team mate Rosskopf by eight sec­onds, with Magner third at ten sec­onds. All three raced on their Colnago road bikes.

Reijnen has strug­gled with ill­ness for most of the year and his vic­tory was a way of thank­ing Team Type 1 for their support.

“To win was impor­tant for me, to show my thanks to Team Type 1 - SANOFI for stand­ing by when I couldn’t even ride my bike for an hour,” Reijnen said.

Team Type 1 will now tar­get over­all suc­cess in the Tour of Rwanda but the US team is in Africa with more than just bike rac­ing on its agenda. The Atlanta-based orga­ni­za­tion also packed more than 100,000 donated dia­betes test strips, 200 blood glu­cose meters and 10,000 lanc­ing devices to help the 650 chil­dren with dia­betes in the African country.

“We’ve come back to try and win the race, but our big­ger goal is to train health care work­ers on dia­betes aware­ness and to put the right sup­plies into the right hands to give these kids a chance,” Team Type 1 - SANOFI CEO Phil Southerland explained.

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