Cuban Lisandra Guerra Wins Gold Medal in World Cycling Cup

Jan 13 2012, 11 :30 am GMT

Guantanamo's Venceremos Newspaper–- Cuban Lisandra Guerra won the gold medal in the women’s 500m Time Trial event of the third stage of the World Track Cycling Cup that is taking place in Beijing, China.

Guerra clocked 34.657 seconds and was followed by Russian Anastasiya Voynova (34.898) and Jijgjing Shi (35.012) of China’s Max Success ProCycling team.

The first stage of the World Track Cycling Cup took place in Astana, Kazakhstan, last November, while the second phase was held in Cali, Colombia, in early December. The fourth and final stage is scheduled for London (February 17-19).

The contest in China, which grants Olympic qualification points, features racing in each Olympic discipline: omnium, team sprint, team pursuit, sprint and keirin.

The track cycling Olympic qualification window closes on April 8, 2012.

Source: Cuban News Agency