On the final day, India won 2 Gold and 3 Bronze
medals.
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
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.
Nayana said after the event that her coach Mr. R.K.
Sharma told us to be calm and soft during the event and he also gave some
technical tips which we followed well and due to this I won the gold and Anu
won the Bronze.
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.
The main attraction of today was the point race of 30Km
where 16 riders took part together and they have to complete the 120 rounds of
the track. However, Indian couldn’t win the medal in this race and Arvind
Panwar could secure 11th place but the stamina and pace maintained by Panwar
was amazing and we can hope the medals in future with this event. Nikita
Panassenko of Track Team Astana won the Gold with 105 points while Timur
Gumerov collected 73 points and secured 2nd place. The third place went to Wan
Yau Vincent of Hongkong with a total of 52 points.
CFI Press release
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