A pilot or captain is the front rider in a tandem bycicle. A pilot controls the steering, the brakes and the gears during the race. Ogada and Dennis were expected to cover a total of 128km.
In the end, they were ranked 10th in the competition. Tristan Bangma from the Netherlands dethroned his fellow countryman, Vincent Schure after clearing the tough course in two hours, 55 minutes and 10 seconds.
Kenya’s Kennedy Ogada, piloted by former Kenya Sevens player Oscar Dennis, Friday bowed out of men’s B1 road racing competition due to exhaustion at the Paris Paralympic Games after just six laps.
Ogada, who had finished 11th at the Time Trial on Wednesday, had to stop many times to fix his bicycle. An exhausted Ogada and his guide Dennis retired after covering 85.2km in two hours, 33 minutes and 02 seconds.
