Cyclist D. Gruzdev won silver medal at Asian Championship

18:05, 18 February 2011

ASTANA. February 18. KAZINFORM Cyclist from Astana Dmitry Gruzdev won a silver medal at the Asian Road Racing Championship in Thailand. He became second in the individual race with separate start at 40 km. The press service of the department of tourism and sport of the capital informs.

The gold was won by silver medal winner of the Asian Games in Guangzhou Kyrgyz athlete Evgeny Wacker. It has become his third victory at the Asian Championship. His time is 56 minutes and 51 seconds. The Kazakh sportsman trailed by 1 minute and 13 seconds. Iranian cyclist Hussein Askari won bronze medal as well as at the Asian Games in Guangzhou.

According to participants, the race was very tough taking into account the temperature of 40 degrees Celsius.

Tomorrow our sportsmen will have to participate in a 160 km group race. Dmitry Gruzdev, Ivan Sivash, Mikhail Kochetkov and Ablai Shugaipov will participate in the event tomorrow.

Coach of the team Alexander Kochetkov believes that our team has good chances for winning the race. Moreover, the two Olympic licenses will be awarded following the results of this race.

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