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Filipina teenager Maritanya Krog pace with riders from China, South Korea and Malaysia early in the women junior elimination race, March 27, 2026 at the Tagaytay CT Velodrome. Handout/PhilCycling 

Filipina teenager Maritanya Krog pace with riders from China, South Korea and Malaysia early in the women junior elimination race, March 27, 2026 at the Tagaytay CT Velodrome.

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MANILA -- A Filipina teenager gave a good account of herself in her maiden foray in the Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC) Track and Para Track Championships, where Chinese cyclists have been dominating.Maritanya Krog, 17, finished fourth in the women junior elimination race on Friday.&quot;It&#x27;s a great honor and achievement for me to be in the top four, not only because it&#x27;s my first time , but also because we had very little preparation for the championships,&quot; said Krog, a successful junior road rider with numerous gold medals at the PhilCycling Nationals and Batang Pinoy program.<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1774701084670viber_image_2026-03-28_19-39-53-837.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Filipina teenager Maritanya Krog pace with riders from China, South Korea and Malaysia early in the women junior elimination race, March 27, 2026 at the Tagaytay CT Velodrome. Handout/PhilCycling " width="960"/>Filipina teenager Maritanya Krog pace with riders from China, South Korea and Malaysia early in the women junior elimination race, March 27, 2026 at the Tagaytay CT Velodrome. Handout/PhilCycling </div>Krog was crowded out of the podium by Indonesia&#x27;s Alegya Keiko Hendranaya, where China&#x27;s Ding Aonan scored the gold while South Korea&#x27;s Lee Yun Ji got silver.&quot;I was very nervous during the race because I knew I could be eliminated anytime,&quot; Krog said. &quot;But I kept pushing myself to stay close to the front and gave it my best.&quot;That was the closest to the podium finish so far by any of the 30 national track and para track athletes entered by the PhilCycling, headed by Abraham &quot;Bambol&quot; Tolentino, in the championships.Wu Junjie and Ning Chen stamped their class in the elite omnium events for China, which widened its gap in the medals race with 10 golds and five silvers—seven more golds than South Korea (3-4-3 gold-silver-bronze) and eight more than Chinese-Taipei (2-2-3).Kazakhstan (2-0-0) and Japan (1-4-7) rounded out the top five in the medal tally with only track powerhouse Malaysia breaking into the gold medal column with one complimented with two silvers and one bronze.Junjie amassed 141 points to outclass Chinese Taipei&#x27;s Li Jing Feng (125 points)and Japan&#x27;s Tetsuo Yamamoto (125 points).Chen, meanwhile, tallied 144 points for the gold, followed by Hong Kong&#x27;s Sze Wing Lee (126) and South Korea&#x27;s Jieun Shin (124).Malaysia (4-3-1) and Uzbekistan (4-1-2) were 1-2 in the medals race in para cycling, followed by Japan (2-0-0), South Korea (1-1-0) and Indonesia (1-1-0).Kazakhstan shone in the women&#x27;s junior Madison behind Aruzhan Kabdulova and Anel Tashbay (105 points), while Uzbekistan&#x27;s Ekaterina Makarochkina and Nadejd Barteneva finished second with 64 points and Chinese Taipei&#x27;s Ting Wen Chen and Tse Ning Chen wound up third.

A Filipina teenager gave a good account of herself in her maiden foray in the Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC) Track and Para Track Championships, where Chinese cyclists have been dominating.

A Filipina teenager gave a good account of herself in her maiden foray in the Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC) Track and Para Track Championships, where Chinese cyclists have been dominating.

Pinay teenager just misses out on podium at Asian track championships

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Pinay teenager just misses out on podium at Asian track championships

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Published March 28, 2026 08:35 PM PHT

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