Algerian wins first leg of Libyan international cycling tour

Algerian cyclist, Al-Hanachi Saturday won the first leg of the third edition of the Libyan International cycling tour in 2 hours, 53 minutes and 54 seconds, PANA reported from here.

• For the first leg, participants ran a distance of 110 km, from Tripoli to Zouara, western part of Libya.

  Following are the individual rankings:

  1st Abdelkader Al-Hanachi (Algeria) 2nd Amine Al-Kilani (Libya) 3rd Ahmed Youssef (Libya).

  The rankings per team are as follows:

  1st Algeria 2nd Libya 3rd Eritrea

  The second leg, from Sabratha-Lajilat-Ras-Jedir-Sabratha is slated for Sunday and will cover a distance of 150km.

  The third edition of the Libyan international cycling tour will be held in five legs over a total distance of 650km.

  The contest features teams from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Eritrea, Turkey, Great Britain and host Libya.