NTT Pro Cycling's Victor Kampenaerts, the current Hour Record holder, won the Nedbank Road Challenge race in Windhoek, Namibia, on Sunday, donating his prize money to Physically Active Youth (PAY).

This is the 28-year-old Belgian's second trip to southwest Africa, having set an Hour Record last year in Aguascalientes, Mexico with 55.089 km, beating Bradley Wiggins' 2015 record of 54.526 km.

In addition to the first prize of 12,000 Namibian dollars (£615) for winning the 100 km race, which Kampenaerts won after 80 km solo, second-place finisher Dan Craven, a former professional rider from Namibia who hosted Kampenaerts on a recent visit to his home country, also contributed $9,000 (£462); third-place finisher Martin Fryer donated an additional $6,000 (£307) in prize money, and race sponsor Nedbank added another $25,000 for a total of $52,000 (£2,664) for PAY.

"Dan took me to see PAY last week. That's when the idea came to me of winning the race and donating the prize money.

"Victor came up with the idea of donating his winnings, his livelihood, to Physical Active Youth. 'I'm older than him, taller than him, but I respect him. [When he sent me the message, I literally cried and now I'm suffering a little.

Campenaerts will be one of the favorites to win the UAE Tour on Sunday, February 23 in the United Arab Emirates in the 15.1km individual time trial on stage 4 before the French stage race Paris-Nice. He will then take on the Giro d'Italia, which boasts three individual time trials this year.