Annemiek van Vleuten heads to Kenya with the Masai tribe

Dutch World Champion takes her gravel bike to Kenya for an off season adventure with the Masai tribe

Annemiek van Vleuten with a Masai woman
(Image credit: Instagram Annemiek van Vleuten)

Annemiek van Vleuten, reigning world champion and Tour de France Femmes winner, is spending her off-season on a cycling holiday in Kenya, visiting the lands of the Masai tribe whom she recently helped to raise money for. 

The Dutch rider and multi-Grand Tour winner is in the African country to help support the charitable initiative started by her male teammate Carlos Verona, Bikes4Masai.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.