Cyclists Scale new peak! First time in history, India ranks World No. 1 in International Cycling Union rankings
Total Views |
New Delhi, January 8: With the start of the new year, the Indian men’s junior cycling team scaled a new peak as India attained a ranking of World No. 1 in all four sprinting events in the latest World UCI 2020 rankings updated recently. Laitonjam Ronaldo Singh, part of the junior world championship winning team (sprint) last year, rose a spot to be ranked No.1 in individual sprint.
In addition, Ronaldo Singh jumped five and two places to be No.1 in both keirin and 1km time trial rankings respectively too. Simultaneously, India are perched atop the team sprint rankings.
Last year, Ronaldo had finished seventh in UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships Men Junior Sprint General Classification while he won the 2020 Asian Track Championship and Track Asia Cup 2019.
He had claimed the second rank in GP Brno track cycling – Men Junior – Sprint – General Classification after winning 29. Großer Preis von Deutschland im Sprint – 10. GP Keirin – Men Junior – Sprint – General Classification in June 2019.
Ronaldo currently has 1530 points in Sprint.
Indian Junior cyclist L. Ronaldo Singh is now World No 1 in UCI rankings in all sprinting events - Individual Sprint, Keirin & Time Trial. He is also part of the Indian team which ranked No 1 in the Team Sprint event. @KirenRijiju congratulates this wonder boy from Manipur pic.twitter.com/aYUfzF0PNi
— Office of Kiren Rijiju (@RijijuOffice) January 8, 2020
This comes after Esow, who has advanced to the senior level, created history by becoming the first Indian to top the UCI world rankings last year with Ronaldo replacing his one year senior at the pinnacle.
Meanwhile, Y Rojit Singh is ranked second and third in keirin and sprint respectively.
In junior women, India are ranked number two in team sprint while Triyasha Paul is number three in time trial and Nikita Nisha is number three in the event keirin.