HANGZHOU, Sept 27: India’s David Beckham Elkatohchoongo shone in the cycling track, making the quarterfinal in men’s sprint event at the Asian Games here on Wednesday.
On a difficult track of at the CSC Velodrome, David edged out his Kazakhstan rivals Sergey Ponomaryov and Andrey Kazchugay in final repechage to confirm his last-eight place.
Earlier in the final heat, David edged out Ponomaryov by 0.188 seconds to make the last-eight.
Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam however failed to progress losing to Andrey Chugay of Kazakhstan in the 1/16 final repechage round.
David and Ronaldo had come up with timings of 10.030s and 10.086s to take ninth and 13th positions respectively and make the 1/16 finals.
In women’s keirin, India’s Shushikala Agashe (+1.087) finished fifth in her heat to fail to qualify for the semifinals, while Triyasha Paul (+1.109) narrowly missed qualification after finishing at third spot in her heat. (PTI)
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