India finish third with 11 medals in Track Asia Cup

Indian Cycling team finished third in the Track Asia Cup campaign by winning eleven medals overall, including 3 Gold, 3 Silver and 5 Bronze medals here at IGI Sports Complex on Friday.

Korea finished at the top position with 6 Gold, 3 Silver and 3 Bronze ahead of Uzbekistan, which secured second place with 3 Gold and 4 Silver medals.

On the final day of the tournament, India clinched 2 Gold and 3 Bronze medals.

India's young cycling sensation Deborah Herold made a fine start on the final day of the Track Asia Cup by winning the Gold medal in the Women Elite Sprint clocking 13.614 seconds to beat Korea's Cho Sun Young (13.704).

Reflecting on her performance, Deborah said, "I am bit upset that I missed medal in one of my favourite event Keirin-WE as I fell down, I could have won one more Gold for India and I was leading but unfortunately I fell down and couldn't win the medal for India. Anyways you improve with every tournament and I am following it. The overall performance of our teams is better. This event is a good preparation for us looking ahead two major events World Cup in Hongkong followed by Asian Championship in Japan early next year. Before this we will also have our training camp in Switzerland from first week of December".

In the Junior Women Sprint finals, India's Nayana Rajesh bagged gold medal in 13.510 seconds while Anu Chutia clinched bronze in 13.822 seconds. The silver went to Fatemeh Hadavand of Iran in 13.623 seconds. Nayana led from the start and won in a very fine manner. She was very calm during the event and pedaled the cycle like she is swimming in the pool.

Meanwhile, in the Men Junior section, Emerson bagged bronze medal in the Sprint finals with a timing of 12.347 seconds. The Gold of this event gone to Thanawat Uraikit of Thailand and Saiid Suwaidan of UAE won the Silver.

The men's junior team, consisting of Ranjith Singh, Sahil Kumar, Om Thalor Prakash and Sanju Udayan Abhjith won bronze in the Team pursuit 4 km event, waving off tough competition with a timing of 4:46.643s. Gold of this event won by Uzbekistan (4:39.630s) and Silver bagged by UAE with a timing of 4:42.679s.