Cycling Africa: Cairo to Cape Town
1 CONTINENT | 8 COUNTRIES | 10 800 KILOMETRES | 58 000 ELEVATION
SETTING A women’s world RECORD
THAT NEEDS TO EXIST
Tegan’s Guinness world record attempt
UPDATE: this record attempt began in October 2022, but was paused due to a serious health incident. The team is working on preparing for a second attempt, when the route reopens (currently it is not safe to cycle through Sudan, due to a civil war).
The countries on this epic journey will include Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana and South Africa. She will mostly follow established routes used by the inspiring record-chasers before her.
Route Tracking Map
Track Tegan’s Cycle across Africa
This interactive tracking map shows Tegan’s live location — stay updated throughout her adventure! The toggles allow you to zoom in and out of the map and switch to an immersive fullscreen view.
Tegan Phillips
Meet Tegan Phillips
Tegan is a professional cartoonist and endurance cyclist from South Africa. Her mission to complete a record-setting cycle across Africa is just one of her many amazing adventures.
Tegan truly enjoys thrilling adventures such as:
Cycling 11 000km across Africa while on holiday with her family
Exploring 22 00km of New Zealand by swimming, cycling and running in 25 days — securing over 80 bicycles for school girls in Southern Africa with World Bicycle Relief
Co-founding SHEveresting — a women’s Mount Everest event series raising funds for women in Khayelitsha to receive bikes
Cycling 1 400km from Cape Town to the Namibian border and back in 5 days (the first Cairo to Cape Town training trip)
Riding 400km around her parent's neighbourhood one day because it was lockdown and there were no races. Read about this on the official Strava blog
Riding 500km around her parent’s neighbourhood another day because 400km wasn’t enough
Tegan is super passionate about cycling, but more importantly, she is passionate about women’s cycling. She is not just cycling from Cairo to Cape Town to challenge herself — but also to set a women’s cycling record that needs to exist.
Storytelling
Follow Tegan’s Journey:
Social Media, Press & Documentaries
We can’t promise an outcome, but we can promise a story.
One of the most rewarding parts of an adventure is sharing the story. It motivates people to get out there, have their own incredible adventures and take on new challenges. Follow Tegan’s story as it unfolds through various online platforms. The team will share live photo and video updates every step of the way, with a few comics for extra fun.
Komoot
MEDIA
INSTAGRAM VIDEOS
The talented Sony ambassador, Paige Fiddes, will be in charge of creating content during the journey. Check out Paige’s website here.
Media & Press
Engaging with traditional media like magazines, radio, newspapers and TV has been a great way for us to reach broader audiences on previous expeditions. The crew will assist in organising interviews, press releases and other types of coverage before, during and after the trip.
Sponsors
The Heroes and Magic-Makers
InvesT in something exciting
Sponsorship helps to transform important adventures from daydreams into reality. As such, the Cairo2CT team treats our beloved sponsors as heroes and magic-makers.
Join Tegan on her epic cycle from Cairo to Cape Town.
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Empowered by Mickey Llew, a leading performance marketing agency, Tegan’s incredible journey will be documented right here on her website. The content on this page was curated by Mickey Llew.
Cairo2CT Sponsors
Fundraising
bikes for women in khayelitsha
One of the best ways to empower a girl or woman is to give them a bicycle. It’s mobility, confidence, health and freedom all rolled into two wheels and a metal frame. Through this expedition, we aim to raise funding for women in Khayelitsha to receive bicycles through Khaltsha Cycles, to ride the 2023 Cape Town Cycle Tour.