By Lane Afable, News Editor
The 45th Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC) Track Cycling Championships and 14th Asian Para Track Cycling Championships will kick-off at the Tagaytay CT Velodrome on Wednesday (March 25).
Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC) president Dato’ Amarjit Singh Gill and Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman Patrick Gregorio lead in the list of distinguished sports officials to grace the opening ceremony of the tournament.
Philippine Olympic Committee president Abraham Tolentino will also join Gill and Gregorio in opening the championships that the country is hosting for the first time since the 1995 edition of the annual event at the brand-new Tagaytay CT Velodrome—a UCI-standard 250-meter indoor track facility.
“So far, this is the biggest international track cycling event that Tagaytay City, and the country for that matter, is hosting in three decades,” said Tolentino, also the president of the national sports association of cycling, PhilCycling.
Tagaytay City Mayor Brent Tolentino fully support the championships along with the PSC, MVP Sports Foundation, Sports Plus PH, Toyota and Peak.
The Asian championships offer 44 gold medals, while 30 golds are staked in the para track competitions that will be held simultaneously until March 31.
Competitions in the ACC championships will be in individual and team pursuit, sprint, keirin, elimination race, omnium, points race, scratch race, Madison and 1-kilometer for both men and women categories.
The events in the para track cycling competitions are the individual pursuit, 1,000 meters time trial, sprint, elimination, scratch race and mixed team and tandem sprints.
The participating countries are Chinese-Taipei, Hong Kong-China, Indonesia, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Macao-China, Malaysia, China, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and host Philippines.
