Monday, November 10, 2008

Japanesa Bikers dominated Down Hill

Japanese stood the best in both the Elite Men's and Women's Down Hill races in the 14th Asian Mountainbike Championship.
On the 3rd day of the championship organised by Nepal Mountainbike Association in Chovar,Naoki Idegawa won the men's championship in 2 minutes and 03.35 seconds followed by Junya Nagata. Nagata completed in 2 minutes and 04.10 seconds. The 1.2 km course was completed by King Man Tsui of Hongkong in 2 minutes and 09.04 seconds.
The Japanese bikers Idegawa and Nagata bettered their timings than their seeding race.Idegawa had completed the seeding race in 2 minutes and 0.672 seconds while Nagata had finished in 2 minutes and 08.61 seconds. Man Tsui had improved his timings about 9 seconds.
Likewisely,Sajjan Rajbhandari, the widely expected Nepali biker completed the race in 2 minutes and 13.49 seconds. He became seventh in the championship.Another Nepali biker Kesh Bahadur Khatri, out of 21 bikers ended in 18th position in 2 minutes and 25.75 seconds.
In the women's section, Japenese Mio Suemasa won the champainship in 2 minutes and 24.60 seconds. She was followed by her own national Tomoko Ilzuka with 2 minutes and 43.79 seconds.
Shih Hsuan Cheng of Chinese Taipei got the 3rd position out of three competitors.
On the races of second day, Saturday Chinese bikers had domineted the Cross Country Races. Xue Li Jiang won the Elite Men's Championship while Chengyuan Ren led the Chinese Clean Sweep in the Elite Women's sections.

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