The Famagusta Cycling Association qualified for an international race (IMAGES)

Qualification for the final of the 2019 World Championship that will take place in August in Poland was won by 2 athletes of the Famagusta Cycling Team.

Tassos Anastasiou and Biser Mihaylov managed in a difficult match in difficult weather conditions at the World Championship that took place in Cyprus to win the great qualification on the three days of March 29-31, 2019.

Miltiadis and Mylka won the Skoda Cyprus Gran Fondo

Andreas Miltiadis put his signature at this year's Skoda Cyprus Gran Fondo "wide" who solemnly made the three-peat in this event - he won it last year and the year before last - winning the first place in all three days of the race.

According to a press release of the organizers, the 22-year-old athlete of ELITE Cycling was significantly superior, winning the 54km route on Sunday from Paphos to Tsada via Statos - Agios Fotios.

The podium was completed by the Briton Ross Fawsett and his compatriot David Williams. Fourth was Richee Moores, son of the legendary APOEL footballer Ian Moores. Richee runs with the colors of APOEL.

The Skoda Cyprus Gran Fondo was part of the UCI Gran Fondo World Series for semi-professionals and amateur cyclists. 603 athletes from 30 countries participated. They were the most cyclists who ever participated in a race in Cyprus. The awards were made at the Castle of Paphos on Sunday afternoon (31/3), in the presence of Mr. Leontios Tselepos, member of the Board. of the COM.

In the women, the Polish Alina Mylka kept the yellow jersey she had taken on Saturday (30/3). Second was the Russian Anastasia Chulkova who runs with APOEL and third was the British Rebecca Johnson.

In the team, the winner in the Mixed category (Men - Women) was APOEL. ELITE Cycling won for the men and Malta for the women.

In Sportive, the most beginners who competed in all three days in Road Race (Experts had individual time in the first day), first in Men was the Belarusian Vroublevski Sergey, followed by the Russians Roman Paramonov and Maksim Eltsov, second and third, respectively. In the Sportive women, Yiulia Polevaya from Russia won, followed by Lillian Choy (Great Britain) and Polina Razbitskaya (Russia).

The Skoda Cyprus Gran Fondo has issued dozens of qualifying cards for the UCI Gran Fondo World Series finals to be held in Poznan, Poland in September. Among the athletes who qualified were several Cypriots.

With 200+ Russians in the race, the event was also part of a Russian cycling championship.

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