Warren James Carne born 14 October 1975 in Bulawayo

Bulawayo

Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...

, Matabeleland

Matabeleland

Modern day Matabeleland is a region in Zimbabwe divided into three provinces: Matabeleland North, Bulawayo and Matabeleland South. These provinces are in the west and south-west of Zimbabwe, between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers. The region is named after its inhabitants, the Ndebele people...

, Rhodesia

Rhodesia

Rhodesia , officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state located in southern Africa that existed between 1965 and 1979 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965...

 (now Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

) is a former Zimbabwean Mountain biker.

Early years

Carne relocated with his parents to Potchefstroom, South Africa, in the late 1980s.He graduated from Potchefstroom Boys High the same year as the South African Olympic 800 metre runner Hezekiél Sepeng

Hezekiél Sepeng

Hezekiél Sello Sepeng , is a South African middle distance runner who came second in the Olympic 800 metres final in Atlanta 1996 , the 1998 Commonwealth Games and the World Championships' final in Seville 1999...

 and the Springbok Boxer Sean Santana

Sean Santana

Sean Santana is a South African boxer. He was educated at Potchefstroom Boys High and graduated in 1994, he was in the same high school class as Zimbabwean cyclist Warren Carne and the South African 800m Atlanta Olympic Silver medalist Hezekiél Sepeng....

.

Cycling career

As a junior he dabbled in time trialing on the road before turning his attention to mountain biking. He placed 12th at the 2005 Zimbabwean National XC MTB Championships held in Harare

Harare

Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

. He was a member of a Zimbabwe squad that competed at the 2007 UCI African Cross-country cycling

Cross-country cycling

Cross-country cycling is the most common discipline of mountain biking. While less publicized than downhill cycling as it is more difficult to televise, it garners the highest levels of participation both recreationally and competitively....

 Championships held in Windhoek

Windhoek

Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level. The 2001 census determined Windhoek's population was 233,529...

, Namibia

Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

 (which also served as a 2008 Beijing Olympics qualification event), Carne placed 5th in the Men's 30-39 Cross Country race behind eventual winner, Namibian Tokkie Bombosch.

External links

Links as a Cyclist

• http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/mtb.php?id=news/2008/mar08/mar22mtbnews
• http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/mtb/?id=2007/jul07/africacc07
• http://www.mtbblog.co.za/African%20MTB%20Champs%202007%20Results%201.xls
• http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/mtb.php?id=news/2007/jun07/jun14mtbnews
• http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/mtb.php?id=mtb/2005/oct05/zimbabwe05
• http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/mtb.php?id=news/2006/nov06/nov21mtbnews
• http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=68874

  2007 Zimbabwe National Mountain Bike Squad

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