Indian cyclist Deborah Herold bagged her third medal with a silver in women’s keirin event on the seventh day of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
Deborah finished second in the six lap keirin event in track cycling behind Lee Wai Sze of Hong Kong.
She had earlier won a silver in women’s 200m individual sprint race on September 20 before grabbing another medal of the same colour on Thursday in team sprint with Alena Reji, who finished fourth in today’s event.
Ranked among the Top-10 in the world in women’s elite time trial event, 22-year-old Herold hails from Andaman and Nicobar Islands and has won medals in Track Asia Cup held at New Delhi in 2015 and 2016. She holds the national records in 200, 250 and 500m time trial events. Reji, on her part, had won a silver medal in the junior section of Team Sprint event at the Asian championships, New Delhi 2017 and a bronze in 500m time trial in the same competitions.
India won another silver on day seven through Malaprabha Yallappa Jadhav in women’s 48kg kurash event (a type of folk wrestling event with origins in central Asia). Jadhav lost to Turkmenistan’s Zarina Saparowa in the final.
India continued to remain ninth on the medals table with 5 gold, 6 silver and 5 bronze medals.
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