Jaïr Tjon En Fa

Jaïr Tjon En Fa

Jaïr Tjon En Fa (2016)
To person
Date of birth	October 19, 1993
nation	Suriname
discipline	Road, rail (sprint)
Most important successes
Pan American Cycling Championships 2016, 2019 - Sprint Central America and Caribbean Games 2014 - Sprint
Last updated: September 8, 2019

Jaïr Tjon En Fa (born October 19, 1993 in Paramaribo ) is a Surinamese cyclist who is active on track and road .

Athletic career

Jaïr Tjon En Fa started cycling in 2007. The following year he was two-time Surinamese junior champion, in road racing and in the individual time trial . In 2009 he won the title of Surinamese road champion in the elite class; in the individual time trial, he finished fourth. At the Inter-Guiana Games he won the team time trial and the junior road race together with Moses Rickets , Murvin Arumjo and Nigel Sloot .

2011 was Tjon En Fa Florida -Master in the Keirin . In 2012 he started in a sprint tournament in Omnisport in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, and came in second behind the German Sebastian Döhrer with a top-class international team . In the same month he won the Grand Prix Jan Derksen in Amsterdam , ahead of the Dutch Hylke van Grieken and Rigard van Klooster , after setting the fastest time in the qualification over 200 meters. In 2014 he won the bronze medal in the sprint at the Central American and Caribbean Games and in 2016 the silver medal at the Pan-American championships.

Tjon En Far lived and trained first in Apeldoorn and later in the United States . He turned down an offer to take Dutch citizenship.

successes

2008

• Surinamese junior champion - road race, individual time trial

2009

• Inter-Guiana Games - Road Race (Juniors)
• Inter-Guiana Games - Team Time Trial (Youth) (with Moses Rickets , Murvin Arumjo and Nigel Sloot )
• Surinamese champion - road race

2014

• Central America and Caribbean Games - Sprint

2016

• Pan American Championship - Sprint

2017

• Pan American Championship - Sprint

2019

• Pan American Championship - Sprint

Web links

Commons : Jaïr Tjon En Fa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jaïr Tjon En Fa in the Radsportseiten.net database
• cyclingdatabase.com. In: Cyclingdatabase. Retrieved June 6, 2015 . 
• Website of Jair Tjo En Fa
• We talk to Jair Tjon En Fa on nkbaanwielrennen.nl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Inter-Guiana Games include annual sporting competitions in which athletes from Suriname , Guyana and French Guiana take part.
2. ↑ GP Jan Derksen on wtcdeamstel.net (Dutch)
3. ↑ Jaïr Tjon en Fa is het sprint niet verleerd! - Baanwacht. (No longer available online.) In: Baanwacht. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 6, 2015 (Dutch).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ↑ Road to Tokyo 2020-campagne moet Jair Tjon En Fa naar Olympic Spelen suffer. (No longer available online.) In: worldnieuws.com. May 14, 2017, archived from the original on December 13, 2017 ; accessed on December 13, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.