KUALA LUMPUR: National track cyclist Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom missed his chance for bronze in men’s individual sprint at the UCI Nations Cup Championships in Milton, Canada yesterday.
Muhammad Shah Firdaus could not match the speed of 2022 Commonwealth Games champion Matthew Richardson of Australia, who defeated him 2-0 in the bronze medal race at the Mattamy National Cycling Centre.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Nicholas Paul won the event with a 2-0 victory over Poland’s Mateusz Rudyk.
Meanwhile, national rider Nurul Izzah Izzati Mohd Asri broke the national record with a time of 11.057s in the qualifying round of women’s individual sprint.
Her time smashed the record of 11.094s set by teammate Anis Amira Rosdi in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan last year.
Nurul Izzah cleared the qualifying round but failed to advance further when she lost in the round of 1/16 to Mexico’s Yuli Verdugo Osuna.
Anis Amira was also shown the exit in the 1/16 round by Lowri Thomas of Great Britain.
Last Friday, Nurul Izzah, Anis Amira and Nurul Aliana Syafika Azizan clocked 50.172s in the women’s team sprint to erase their own national record of 50.388s, which was set in Jakarta last February. – BERNAMA
