This year’s Asian Road Cycling Championships was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan. There are a total of 9 events in the competition. Many domestic riders joined the competition. Among them, the Yunnan athletes and teams have gained a lot in this competition. Among them, Yunnan team Lv Xianjing, Li Zhen, Chang Yue, Tang Xin, Wen Yuandan and Zhou Qiuying represented China and won the second place in the men’s elite group, the third place in the women’s elite group, the fourth place in the mixed team relay and the fifth place in the women’s U23 group. Because the Paris Olympics are coming soon, this Asian Championships is of great significance to the selection of players for Asian teams, and the competition has become extremely fierce.
However, in the men’s road elite group competition, Su Haoyu, Shen Yutao, Ma Binyan, Teng Geng and Lv Xianjing won 1 silver medal with outstanding performance. In the subsequent women’s elite and U23 group competitions, Zhou Qiuying, Chang Yue, Tang Xin and Wen Yuandan (U23) successfully won the bronze medal. Among them, Tang Xin went to France to train with the WINSPACE TEAM professional team at the beginning of this year. He returned to China with his overseas experience to join the competition. It can be said that the pressure was great, but the results were also quite outstanding. In the end, Li Zhen cooperated well with other teammates and won the fourth place in the mixed team relay.
In this competition, the host Kazakhstan team, which has monopolized the three Asian Championships, has always shown strength. After all, fighting on the home ground, it has the advantage of time, place and people. The Chinese team needs to fight them head-on to get certain results. Of course, the Chinese team’s drivers are first-class familiarity with each other, and before the game, the team’s sports director Lionel carefully analyzed the road conditions and the situation of the game for the team members, and arranged tactical arrangements that are more matched with the Chinese team players. Therefore, it is imperative to achieve success with both approaches!