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Asian Track Championships draw 600 elite cylists

Published Mar 25, 2026 03:55 pm

At A Glance

  • The Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC) Track and Para Track Championships got off to a rousing start on Wednesday at the Tagaytay CT Velodrome with close to 600 cyclists from 16 countries in full harness to earn titles as continental champions.
The Asian track cycling championships are on with (from left) Tagaytay City Mayor Brent Tolentino, Philippine Paralympic Committee president Mike Barreto, Philippine Sports Commission chairman Patrick Gregorio, Philippine Olympic Committee and PhiCycling president Abraham Tolentino, Asian Cycling Confederation president Dato Amarjit Singh Gill, Uzbekistan Cycling Federation secretary-general Khurshid Atakulov Bakhodirjanovich (partly hidden) and Saudi Cycling Federation President Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani declaring the competitions open at the Tagaytay CT Velodrome on Wednesday. (PhilCycling Photo)
The Asian track cycling championships are on with (from left) Tagaytay City Mayor Brent Tolentino, Philippine Paralympic Committee president Mike Barreto, Philippine Sports Commission chairman Patrick Gregorio, Philippine Olympic Committee and PhiCycling president Abraham Tolentino, Asian Cycling Confederation president Dato Amarjit Singh Gill, Uzbekistan Cycling Federation secretary-general Khurshid Atakulov Bakhodirjanovich (partly hidden) and Saudi Cycling Federation President Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani declaring the competitions open at the Tagaytay CT Velodrome on Wednesday. (PhilCycling Photo)
The Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC) Track and Para Track Championships got off to a rousing start on Wednesday at the Tagaytay CT Velodrome with close to 600 cyclists from 16 countries in full harness to earn titles as continental champions.
For Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino, the country’s track program “is starting from scratch” amid the event’s magnitude that, admittedly, Filipino riders aren’t expected to medal.
“I don’t expect any medal or podium finish here for our track cycling team,” said Tolentino, president of both the Philippine Olympic Committee and PhilCycling. “We’re starting from scratch … we’re still calibrating and adjusting.”
“So we will learn, little by little, and we will soon learn it,” he added.
For Philippine Sports Commission chairman Patrick Gregorio, the championships are a dream come true—both for the country and Tolentino.
“It’s a dream come true for President Tolentino, and for the country,” Gregorio said in his speech during the well-attended, lively and colorful opening ceremony ahead of the actual races at the velodrome’s infield.
The Tagaytay CT Velodrome is a world-class cycling facility that replaced the then iconic but now demolished Amoranto Velodrome in Quezon City—a facility that served cycling since the 1960s until Tolentino built a UCI-standard track at the heart of Tagaytay City that’s now rising to become the country’s “Olympic Center.”
ACC president Datu Amarjit Singh Gill put authority and prestige to the occasion, alongside Mayor Brent Tolentino, Philippine Paralympic Committee president Mike Barreto, Uzbekistan Cycling Federation secretary-general Khurshid Atakulov Bakhodirjanovich) and Saudi Cycling Federation president Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani.
Joining them were PSC commissioners Walter Torres and Eduardo Hayco, Tagaytay City Vice Mayor Agnes Tolentino, former Cavite governor Athena Tolentino.
“We finally hosted this event after 31 long years. And it is really a dream come true for Philippines sports,” Tolentino said. “We are thankful to ACC and UCI for helping us.”

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