HOA BINH, Vietnam. – Jermyn Prado leads the women’s team and Jan Paul Morales heads the men’s squad as the Philippines goes for its first gold medal in cycling in the criterium event of the 31st Southeast Asian Games Thursday here.
Joining Prado, the individual time trial gold and road silver medalist in 2019 in Tagaytay City, are 2019 SEA Games cross-country mountain bike bronze medalist Avegail Rombaon and 2021 national trials road winner Kate Yasmine Velasco.
With Morales in the race set over a 1.48-km circuit in the heart of this rustic city some 90 kilometers southeast of capital Hanoi are fellow sprinters Dominic Perez and Aidan James Mendoza.
“It will be a solid sprinting and endurance race all the way,” said cycling coach Ednalyn Hualda, who thanked the Philippine Olympic Committee and Philippine Sports Commission for fully supporting the team’s SEA Games campaign. “Because this is a race to the finish, there will be no relaxing for the cyclists.”
