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National Cyclists Going to Poland for UCI World Cup

Mohammad Daneshvar won gold at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea; 2016 Asian Cycling Championships in Izu, Japan; 2017 Asian Track Cycling Championships in New Delhi, India, and the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmeni
Iran’s cycling squad at 2017 Asian Track Cycling Championships, New Delhi, India.
Iran’s cycling squad at 2017 Asian Track Cycling Championships, New Delhi, India.

Four Iranian cyclists will attend Tissot UCI Track cycling World Cup in Pruszków, Poland, November 3-5.

Mohammad Daneshvar, Ali Aliasgari, Mahmood Rasouli and Ehsan Khademi from Iran will compete in the Sprint, Team Sprint and Keirin categories.

Aliasgari, Rasouli and Khademi are Team Sprint cyclers and Daneshvar will test his power in the Keirin and Sprint variants, Varzesh3.com reported.

As the most decorated person in the team, Daneshvar won gold at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea; 2016 Asian Cycling Championships in Izu, Japan; 2017 Asian Track Cycling Championships in New Delhi, India, and the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

The sprint or match sprint is a track cycling event involving two and four riders, though it is usually run as a one-on-one match race between opponents who, unlike in the individual pursuit, start next to each other.

The Keirin is a variant of the sprint in which a higher number usually 6-8 of riders  compete in a very different format. They are paced in the early laps by a Derny motorcycle and are required to stay behind. The motorcycle slowly increases the speed of the race from 25 km/h to about 50 km/h. It then leaves the track with about 600-700 meters remaining. The first rider across the finish line in the high-speed finish is the winner.

The team sprint, also known as the Olympic sprint, is a short distance three-man team pursuit held over three laps of a velodrome. Like the team pursuit event, two teams race against each other, starting on opposite sides of the track, but at the end of the first lap, the leading rider in each team drops out of the race by riding up the banking leaving the second rider to lead for the second lap; at the end of the second lap, the second rider does the same, leaving the third rider to complete the last lap on his own. In the women’s event, teams of two compete over a two-lap distance.

Tissot UCI Track cycling World Cup is held in five rounds each year. The event in Pruszków is the first round in the 2017 cycle, with the next events planned for November 10-12 in Manchester (UK), December 2-3 in Milton (Canada), December 9-10 in Santiago (Chile) and the last January 19-21 round in 2018 in Minsk (Belarus).

 

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