State Level Cycling Championships : SAIRC emerge overall team champions
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 02 2023:
SAIRC team which produced a dominating performance in the individual time trial event emerged overall team champions of the 2nd Governor's Cup State Level Cycling Championships organised by the Manipur Cycling Association at Khuman Lampak Cycling Velodrome.
SAIRC collected as many as 18 gold, 13 silver and 15 bronze medals to finish on top while YPA finished runners up with 2 silver and 1 bronze medals.
The day saw Th Chinglensana of SAIRC clinching three gold medals, one apiece in the senior men's 1 km individual time trial with a time of 1:09.105; sprint with a time of 11.329 seconds and 4 km individual pursuit with a time of 5:09.012 .
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S Bindyarani of SAIRC secured the senior women's 500 m individual time trial gold medal with a 41.329 seconds finish as K Robinson of the same unit clinched the U-18 boys 1 km individual time trial gold with a 1:11.639 finish.
SAIRC's K Lanchenba (35.752 seconds) and H Thajamanbi (41.745 seconds) were able to secure gold medals in the U-16 boys and girls' individual time trial events as N Max (36.598 seconds) and Th Tarunkumari (41.415 seconds) secured the U-14 boys and girls' titles.
S Revaldo of SAIRC was able to seal the U-18 boys' sprint gold with a time of 12.154 seconds as Yumnm Thaja clinched the senior women's sprint gold in 14.436 seconds.
K Robinson went on to win the 3 km individual pursuit taking 3 minutes 45.610 seconds while Y Gitu fetched the senior women's 3 km individual pursuit gold in 4 minutes 13 .504 seconds.
SAIRC's K Devjit (2:38.510) and Tarunkumari Thokchom (3:04.221) also claimed the U-14 boys and girls' 2 km individual pursuit gold medals as the unit's Th Gyananta (2:29.405) and H Thajamanbi (2:56.370) won the u-16 boys and girls' gold medals.
SAIRC also swept the 10 km scratch race for U-18 boys with Action Konthoujam, Huidrom Suraj and Kongthoujam Lanchenba securing the gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.