Day 2 of the Track Asia Cup came to an end, with four final rounds and other qualifiers. India bagged two bronze medals this evening.
In the Men Junior category, team consisting of Sachin Desai, Raju Bati, Sandesh Uppar and Ashwin Patil added second bronze medal of the day for India in the Team Pursuit 4 km Race. They left behind the team from Hong Kong to claim the third position. However, the country that took away the gold at this event was Kazakhastan, who put up a good show. The second place was taken by UAE.
Sanuraj P from India also took home the bronze medal in the 1km Time Trial Men Junior, clocking a time of 1:07.902. The gold medal was awarded to TSZ Chun Law from Hong Kong, with a time of 1:07.015, the silver position was taken up by Muhammad Danieal Haikkal from Malaysia, who clocked at 1:07.871.
However in the 1Km Time Trial Men Elite, India failed to take up any position. Chung Wing Leung of Hong Kong bagged the gold medal with a timing of 1:03.332. Shih Feng Kang from Taiwan and Maxim Nalyotov from Kazakhstan took the silver and bronze respectively, clocking 1:05.125 and 1:05.381
“This is event where World No. 6 cyclist Sahil had to participate and India was confident of Gold but due to injury in training session, however despite having suffered the loss of a strong payer our team bagged the bronze medal.” said RK Sharma, Coach Indian Team.
India’s Emerson and P Sanuraj will play for bronze medal after the qualifier round today. The interesting part would be to see which of the two Indian boys would take the medal home, since they will be pitted against each other at the finals of the Sprint event tomorrow. Chun Long Leung and TSZ Chun Law of Hong Kong will be competing with each other for the gold and silver position respectively tomorrow at the event.
In the qualifier of the Men Elite Sprint Sprint Event Taiwan’s Shih-Feng Kang and Shih Hsin Hsiao will compete against each other for the gold and silver position and Iran’s Ali Askari and Hassanali will be up against each other for the bronze position at the event tomorrow.
In the afternoon, an incident happened when Ranjit Singh hit badly when he couldn’t maintain her balance and fell down on track in Sprint of Men Elite Repechages immediate after completing the final lap.
He told afterwards that, “In the last lap, my complete focus was to beat the opponent and you can see the timings (11.622) where I tried my best to beat Iranian Hassanali Varposhti (11.602) and due to this I lost my focus and got injured. I was lucky that I didn’t get any serious injury”, he added.
However, Ranjit Singh couldn’t make the cut to finals.
