It's now all over bar the shouting for the Asian Para Road Cycling Championships.
There were 28 riders representing six nations - Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Iran and Chinese Taipei.
Of the 28, four were female - Jing and three Handcyclists.
Jing rode the time trial yesterday in similar conditions to the previous day's road race, although over a much shorter distance - 13.4km.
The time trial was a combined event with all the male C2-4 competitors and Jing competing together with a factoring system applied to even out the times for the different categories. In simple terms, a time factor is applied to the actual time ridden to compensate for the different levels of disability. Following application of the factoring, Jing finished 3rd, collecting the bronze medal in a field of eight and riding an average speed in excess of 32k/h. An excellent result and once again she achieved maximum UCI points. A very successful day indeed.
So now the next excitement on the horizon for the Canberra Paras is the World Para Track Cycling Championships commencing in Los Angeles on Thursday (LA time, don't forget - 19 hrs behind us). Hopefully I'll be able to get the results out hot off the press, as they happen, but only time will tell.....
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