At the end of Day 2 of the ongoing Track Cycling Asia Cup, India is leading the medal table with a tally of 7 Gold 7 Silver & 3 Bronze medals. 8 Gold Medal were at stake today and Indian Cyclists added 2 Gold, 3 Silver & 3 Bronze on penultimate day of Track Asia Cup 2017 here at Cycling Velodrome, Indra Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi.
Sahil Kumar opened India’s scoring with a Bronze on Day 2 as he finished with 1:06.645s in 1 km Time Trial event of Men Senior. Gold Medal was won by Malaysia’s Muhammad Fadhil (1:04.028) and Silver went to Kazakhstan’s Abdul Aziz (1:05.858).
In Team Pursuit (Senior) event, Manjeet Singh, Dinesh Kumar, A. Bike Singh & Manohar Lal won the first Gold from the day for India when they snatched Gold from Kazakhstan. SAINCA won Bronze.
In 3Km Individual pursuit of Men Junior, Gold and Silver was awarded to India’s Raju Bati (3:35.172s) & Anil Manglaw (3:41.888s) respectively. Anil pedalled the cycle with a speed of 50.192km/hr to claim Gold. SAINCA’s Devkishan Sharan won Bronze with 3:42.373s. Kazakhstan & UAE were far behind at 5th & 6th respectively.
Ashton Lambe of USA won the Gold Medal of 4Km Individual Pursuit in the Senior category, he pedalled with good speed & crossed Uzbekistan rider (Silver Medal) and thus was declared winner. Same happened in the Bronze medal contest when Kazakhstan rider overlapped Indian cyclist Manjeet Singh and won Bronze.
Sonali Chanu and Amritha Reghunathan, who were recently upgraded to Seniors, earned Silver and Bronze respectively in 3Km Individual pursuit. Indonesian Ayustina Delia won Gold of the event.
In 2km Individual Pursuit event, Junior Cyclist Megha Gugad won Silver for India with a timing of 2:43.711 with an average speed of 43.980km/hr. Vaishanvi Gabne added one more Bronze medal for India’s another team SAINCA with 2:46.504s. Indonesian Evanglina Liontin claimed Gold with a timing of 2:39.252s.
Mayur Pawar in Junior category also added one bronze in 1:07.869s in 1 Km Time Trial event while Terry Yudha of Indonesia earned Gold Medal with 1:06.083s. Silver Medal was grabbed by Ahmed Alhassan of Kazakhstan in 1:07.200s.
Onkar Singh, Secretary General Cycling Federation of India said,”India is a growing nation in Cycling and in last 3-4 years, we upgraded well. 5 years ago, Indian cyclists were at 149th place in world Ranking but now Indian cyclists are winning the medals on International platform.” “Indian cyclists have the potential to win medals at Asian Championships & World Championships and I want to see the tricolour on these platforms”, he added.