Champion! Cristian Ortega won gold medal in the Track Cycling Nations Cup

At the age of 21, Barranquilla rider Cristian David Ortega Fontalvo was crowned world champion in the 2022 Track Cycling Nations Cup, commercially known as the Tissot Nations Cup, held in Glasgow, Scotland.

After recording a time of one minute and 325 thousandths of a second, Ortega won the gold medal of the competition on wheels held in British territory, while his compatriot and teammate, Santiago Ramírez, ranked fourth with one minute and 918 thousandths of a second in the so-called Test of the Kilometer in the men's mode.

The Barranquilla cyclist confirmed his excellent form at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow, recording an unprecedented time in his track record.

The Colombian had been second in the qualifying phase, but in the grand final he beat Frenchman Melvin Landerneau, who made the same route in one minute and 700 thousandths of a second, while the bronze went to the runner Alejandro Martínez Chorro with one minute and 832 thousandths of a second.

In the test this Friday, April 22, Cristian came from back to front. In the standings he was seventeenth at the start; in the 500 meters, he was tenth; in the 759 meters he was fourth; and in the finish line he was 2. Already in the final, the barranquillero did like this:

Exit: sixth

500 meters: quarter

750 meters: second

1 kilometer: first and gold medal.

In general, the runners of this race go from front to back, taking into account that they lose legs with the passage of the laps.

Relive, then, the moment when Cristian achieves the time of 1:00 .325 and becomes unattainable for his followers in Glasgow:

Cristian David is part of the generational relay of the track in the PAD program of the Ministry of Sport and according to the Colombian cycling expert on Twitter, Diego Sandoval, the medalist today started playing football in the Atlantic capital, but began to approach the bicycle as part of the night cycle lanes of district.

On the advice of one of her aunts to venture into cycling, she made the move from amateur to professional, a process in which her first coach was Ricardo Moreno in the Atlantic Cycling League. Subsequently, he competed for Colombia at the Pan American Youth Games in Cali and won 3 Keirin golds there: Speed; Individual; and Team Speed.

At his young age, Diego Sandoval considers him a phenomenon of sport on wheels after having made his first call with the Colombia senior cycling team at the age of 21 and participating in his first international competition in the Scottish Nations Cup.

The santanderean runner Martha Bayona Pineda also confirmed the great sporting moment she is going through this Friday, April 22 at the Tissot Nations Cup.

In the women's individual speed mode of the competition, Bayona took third place and won the bronze medal after competing against Canadian winner Kelsey Mitchell, who was the fastest in the final ahead of the Dutch Laurine van Riessen (silver medal). The Colombian, for her part, completed the podium after beating Ukraine's Olena Starikova.

Meanwhile, the other coffee runner in competition is Marianis Salazar, who was left out in the qualifying round. The forty participating teams will continue this Saturday, April 23, the event at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow, with the qualifying rounds in the day and afternoon day in the medal dispute.

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