Belarus Open Track Cycling Cup started at Minsk-Arena velodrome. Representatives of Minsk Cycling Club started the performance very successfully.
In the women's team pursuit, the national team of Belarus, made up of racers of Minsk Cycling Club (Hanna Tserakh, Nastassia Kiptsikava, Iryna Chuyankova, Taisa Naskovich), won the qualification with a score of 4:29.129. In the final race for the "gold" against Tula team, the Belarusians, who replaced Chuyankova to Karolina Biriuk, were again faster (4.30.263).
In the final for third place, the quartet of racers from Minsk, consisting of Alina Karotkina, Katsiaryna Rusak, Kseniya Shynkarenka, Palina Konrad, confidently won, catching up with rivals from Minsk.
In the men's team pursuit a serious struggle unfolded. The qualifying rounds were won by Tula team (Sergey Rostovtsev, Miroslav Suyatin, Savva Novikov, Nikolay Pochernyaev). The quartet of Minsk Cycling Club racers (Mark Grinkevich, Artur Kiryevich, Dzianis Marchuk, Viachaslau Shpakouski) was the second. However, in the final, the Belarusians outperformed their opponents and won gold medals (4:08.494).
The third place was taken by the Belarusian team, which was represented by Stsiapan Bezgerts, Vadzim Adzinets, Aliaksandr Astalouski, Pavel Turchanka.
In the women's team sprint, Minsk Cycling Club racers were noted in all the teams of the top three. For the first team of the city of Minsk, which confidently won both the qualification and the final, two representatives of the capital squad went at once - Anhelina Krasko and Varvara Basiakova, as well as Yuliya Lameika. Yuliya Usava, who perfprmed for the second team of the city of Minsk, won silver in the company with Viktoryia Niaborskaya and Alena Adamovich. And Katsiaryna Rusak helped the team of the city of Brest win the final for third place.
In the men's team sprint Minsk Cycling Club racer Aliaksandr Hlova won bronze as part of the Mix-2 team, which was also represented by Russians Pavel Rostov and Alexander Kazantsev. And the victory was won by another mixed trio: Belarusian Artsiom Zaitsau and Russians Aleksandr Dubchenko and Dmitry Nesterov.
BELARUS OPEN CUP 2023 (TRACK) – TEAM PURSUIT
BELARUS OPEN CUP 2023 (TRACK) – TEAM SPRINT
