India finish with 11 medals in Track Asia Cup cycling

India finished their campaign on a creditable third position with an impressive 11 medals, including three gold, three silver and five bronze in the Track Asia Cup cycling topurnament at the IGI Sports Complex, here today.
Korea finished at the top with six gold, three silver and three bronze while Uzbekistan secured second spot with three gold and four silver medals.
On the final day, India won two gold and three bronze medals.
India's young cycling sensation Deborah Herold made a fine start on the final day of the competition by winning the gold medal in the women Elite Sprint event clocking 13.614 seconds to beat Korea's Cho Sun Young (13.704s).

Deborah also missed one medal opportunity as she fell down in her favourite Keiren event. On the final lap, she couldn't maintain her balance and fell down on the track and after coming in contact of Deborah, Thailand's Pannaray Rasee also lost her balance and collided. Deborah eventually settled for one gold and two silver medals (including one from team event).
"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," Deborah said.

"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 with a timing of 13.510s while Anu Chutia clinched bronze clocking 13.822s. The silver went to Fatemeh Hadavand of Iran (13.623s).
In the men's junior section Emerson bagged bronze medal in the Sprint finals with a timing of 12.347s. The gold went to Thanawat Uraikit of Thailand while 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 also won a bronze in the Team pursuit 4km event, waving off tough competition with a timing of 4:46.643s.
The gold in this event was won by Uzbekistan (4:39.630s) while UAE with a timing of 4:42.679s bagged the silver.
The main attraction of the day was the point race of 30km where 16 riders took part together and they have to complete the 120 rounds of the track. However, India couldn't win any medal in this event as Arvind Panwar could only secure the 11th place.