National Para-Cycling Camp Endures Barren Third Day At Aichi-Nagoya 2026

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 (Bernama) -- The national para-cycling camp endured a barren third day at the Asian Para Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026 after failing to add to their medal tally at the Cycle Sports Center 5km Circuit Course today.

In the men's C1-5 (physical impairment) time trial, Mohamad Yusof Hafizi Shaharuddin finished in sixth place after clocking 27 minutes 06.38 seconds (s).

The event was won by Japan's Shota Kawamoto (25:15.01s) while Bunyod Khayitmakhammadov of Uzbekistan (25:39.46s) and Liang Weicong of China (26:03.58s) took silver and bronze, respectively.

In the men's B (visual impairment) time trial, Mohd Khairul Hazwan Wahab and pilot Muhammad Nabil Wafiq Zamri finished seventh with a time of 44:28.05s.

Kazakhstan bagged both gold and silver through Nail Yermukhanbet/Ruslan Aliyev (34:09.17s) and Kirill Ilyukevich/Gleb Brussenskiy (35:26.64s) while Indonesia's Nur Fendi/Mufti Fadilah Salma took bronze (40:00.00s).

Malaysia also finished seventh in the women's B time trial through Nur Azlia Syafinaz Mohd Zais and pilot Nurul Suhada Zainal who clocked 47:44.92s.

Kazakhstan's Anastassiya Kalaus/Polina Bratchikova claimed the gold medal with a time of 32:21.54s followed by Uzbekistan's Robiyakhon Toshpulatova/Olga Zabelinskaya (32:45.82s) for silver and Singapore's Cheng Jui Tan/Sarah Hui Zhen Tan (34:31.92s) for bronze.

Despite failing to win any medals today, the national cycling squad had earlier bagged five medals, one gold, two silvers and two bronzes over the first two days of competition.

Zuhairie Ahmad Tarmizi delivered Malaysia's first gold medal of the Games in the men's 1,000m time trial C4-C5 event which was also the country's first medal at the Games.

The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games which officially opened on Sunday will run until Oct 24. 

— BERNAMA