Esow Alban

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Esow Alban Road cycling
Esow Alban with his bronze medal in the Keirin at the Junior World Championships 2019
Esow Alban with his bronze medal
in the Keirin at the Junior World Championships 2019
To person
Date of birth March 10, 2001
nation IndiaIndia India
discipline Train (short term)
To the team
Current team National Cycling Academy, Delhi
Most important successes
UCI Track World Championships for Juniors
2019 World Champion - team sprint
2019 silver - Sprint
2019 bronze - Keirin
2018 silver - Keirin
Last updated: August 23, 2019

Esow Alban (also albums or Esow Esow ) (born March 10, 2001 in Port Blair ) is an Indian track cyclist . In 2018 he became the first cyclist in his country to win a medal at the UCI World Championships .

Athletic career

Esow Alban comes from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands , a group of islands around 1400 kilometers from the Indian mainland in the Indian Ocean . His father Alban Didus works for the fire brigade and was active as a cyclist himself. Esow Alban attended a school in Port Blair . His mother, Lelly Kalban, was a cabaddin player and competed in national championships in 1984. She enrolled her son at the State Sports Council Netaji Stadium after reading the newspaper that young athletes should register. Alban first started rowing; however, he was allowed to switch to cycling because he was too thin. After finishing second in the U14 national track championships in the 1000-meter time trial , he was selected for the National Cycling Academy in Delhi in 2014 . It was then that he set foot on the Indian mainland for the first time.

In February 2018 Alban won three gold medals at the Asian Junior Track Championships in Nilai ( Malaysia ), in the sprint , keirin and team sprint (with Mayur Pawar and James Singh ). At the Sprint Cup in Cottbus , he won the junior sprint competition and at the Brno GP the sprint and Keirin races. Because of these successes, he took the lead in the junior sprint ranking of the UCI World Cycling Association .

In August of that year Alban started at the Junior World Championships in Aigle, Switzerland, and won the silver medal in Keirin , 0.017 seconds behind the winner Jakub Stastny from the Czech Republic . It was an Indian cyclist's first medal at the UCI World Championships . In the sprint competition he reached the quarterfinals, where he was finally defeated by the Australian Leigh Hoffman in two races. At the Asian Championships in 2019, Alban was able to repeat his three-time title win. At the end of the 2018/19 season, he was number one in Keirin and Sprint in the UCI ranking for juniors.

On August 15, 2019, Indian Independence Day , Esow Alban won the title of Junior World Champion together with Jemsh Singh Keithellakpam , Rojit Singh Yanglem and Ronaldo Laitonjam . This was the first gold medal for India at world cycling championships. The "refreshing" Esow himself won two other medals: silver in the sprint and bronze in the keirin.

successes

2018
2019

Web links

Commons : Esow Alban  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Esow Alban in the database of Radsportseiten.net

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 17-year-old Esow Albums creates history by winning India's first cycling World Cup medal. In: indiatoday.in. August 19, 2018, accessed August 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Nitin Sharma: From Andamans, 17-year-old Esow albums cycles to world number two. In: indianexpress.com. August 18, 2018, accessed August 18, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Esow hogs the limelight. In: thehindu.com. December 24, 2016, accessed August 18, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Sandip Sikdar: Esow Alben-led India bag historic cycling gold. In: hindustantimes.com. August 15, 2019, accessed on August 23, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b Junior Track Cycling World Championships: Indian Esow Alban wins sliver. In: menafn.com. August 17, 2018. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  6. ^ I am made for India, says World No. 1 junior cyclist Esow albums. In: - Times of India. March 7, 2019, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Indian cyclists create history winning first-ever gold at World Junior Championships. In: thebridge.in. August 15, 2019, accessed on August 15, 2019 .
  8. ^ Jürgen Leibner: Grand final of the German team. In: moz.de. August 19, 2019. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Alban, Esow
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albums, Esow (alternative spelling); Esow, Esow (alternative name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 2001
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Blair