RI cyclists earn medals at Asian C'ships

RI cyclists earn medals at Asian C'ships

JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia's Kuala Lumpur 2001 Southeast Asian
(SEA) Games cyclists grabbed two silver medals and three bronze
medals at the Asian Championships from July 7 to July 17 in
Chinese Taipei.

"Our cyclists have performance well in track events, though,
those in road race events have yet to improve their results,"
secretary general of the Indonesian Cycling Association (ISSI),
Sofyan Ruzian told Antara on Tuesday.

"In general, they have performed better than our competitors
in the SEA Games but we have to be careful with the Vietnamese
and Thai cyclists," he added.

Silver medals were won by the women's 3,000-meter team pursuit
and point race events. Three bronze medals came from the women's
3,000-meter individual pursuit, elimination and Olympic sprint
events.

Although the men's cyclists failed to grab a medal, the 4,000-
meter team pursuit of Teguh, Iwan Rahmat, Wawan Setyobudi, and
Kohar clocked 4:31 minutes, which is better than the SEA Games
record of 4:40 minutes recorded by Malaysian cyclists. (nvn)