Arfy ends drought

Arfy ends drought
By SHAMSHUL FITRI




KUALA LUMPUR: Reigning Asian junior champion Mohd Arfy Qhairant Amran delivered Malaysia’s first gold medal in the Track Asia Cup cycling championships at the Cheras Velodrome yesterday.

Arfy was in dominant form, defeating Hong Kong’s Lok Chun Wu 2-0 in the sprint final.

“It was tough as the Hong Kong rider has a lot of power and I’m not really at my peak yet,” said Arfy.


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“But I felt better compared to when I won the 1km time trial bronze on Friday. I’m glad I nailed the gold medal.”

Aboulfazi Zarezadehmehrizi of Iran beat Thailand’s Worayut Kapunya for the bronze.

Malaysia’s Sofian Nabil Omar Bakri grabbed the silver medal in the men’s junior point race despite having a fever. The race was won by Hong Kong’s Chun Wing Leung while Ruslan Feddrovof Uzbekistan settled for the bronze.

Hamdan Hamidun delivered Malaysia’s third bronze medal clocking 3:48.194 in the junior 3km individual pursuit. Chun Wing Leung of Hong Kong won the gold medal in 3:40.182 while Ruslan Feddrov of Uzbekistan took the silver in 3:42.490.

Malaysian senior sprinters were outclassed yesterday with Mohd Fattah Amri Zaid the best finisher in fifth place and Ju Pha Somnet seventh. Junior sprinter Lauretta Eva Adrian finished fourth in her race.

The men’s sprint team still have a chance to nick the gold medal today in their match against hot favourites Iran.

Fattah, his brother Mohd Farhan and Mohd Fakhruddin Daud were second fastest in 1:06.012. The Iranian trio of Mahmoud Parash, Mahmoud Rasouli and Ali Askari stopped the clock in 1:03.929 while Hong Kong were third fastest in 1:06.193.