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| Venue |  Manama, Bahrain |
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| Date(s) | 25 February – 2 March 2017 |
The 2017 Asian Road Cycling Championships were held in Manama, Bahrain from 25 February to 2 March 2017. [1] [2]
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| Venue | Manama, Bahrain |
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| Date(s) | 25 February – 2 March 2017 |
The 2017 Asian Road Cycling Championships were held in Manama, Bahrain from 25 February to 2 March 2017. [1] [2]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual road race | Park Sang-hong  South Korea | Yousif Mirza  United Arab Emirates | Zhandos Bizhigitov  Kazakhstan |
| Individual time trial | Dmitriy Gruzdev Kazakhstan | Choe Hyeong-min South Korea | Cheung King Lok  Hong Kong |
| Team time trial | Kazakhstan Alexey Lutsenko Dmitriy Gruzdev Andrey Zeits Daniil Fominykh Zhandos Bizhigitov Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev |  Japan Takeaki Amezawa Yukiya Arashiro Nariyuki Masuda Rei Onodera Ryota Nishizono Hayato Okamoto | Hong Kong Leung Chun Wing Ko Siu Wai Cheung King Lok Ho Burr Leung Ka Yu Mow Ching Yin |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual road race | Yang Qianyu Hong Kong | Na Ah-reum South Korea | Miho Yoshikawa Japan |
| Individual time trial | Liang Hongyu  China | Lee Ju-mi South Korea | Yumi Kajihara Japan |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kazakhstan | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | South Korea | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Japan | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | United Arab Emirates | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | |
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