Spain closes the Paralympic Track Cycling World Championships with seven medals

The Spanish Paralympic cycling team closed this Sunday with seven medals at the Apeldoorn Track World Championships (Netherlands) after the silver from Valencian Ricardo Ten in individual speed, class C1, and the bronze of the speed team composed of Isabel Yinghua Hernández, Alfonso Cabello and Eduardo Santas.

Ricardo Ten, who broke his collarbone a month and a half ago at the Alabama road world championships, put the cherry on top of an outstanding world championship with four medals divided into gold in the scratch, silver in the elimination and speed and bronze in the kilometer.

The last medal was silver in speed. The gold went to the Chinese Weicong Liang and the bronze to the Malaysian Shaharuddin.

The last medal was the sprint team bronze composed of Alfonso Cabello, Eduardo Santas and Isabel Yinghua Hernández. The Spanish trio set the third time in the qualifying phase, a position that put them in the fight for third place with France and which they achieved thanks to a time of 50.758 to the 51.103 of the French.

Apart from the four medals from Ricardo Ten and bronze from the speed teamthe other two Spanish medals were the two golds of the Cordoban Alfonso Cabello in the kilometer time trial and speed.