On November 10, at Hoa Binh Square, Vietnam Cycling Federation (VCF) coordinated with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hoa Binh province and Minh Viet Communications and Trading Company to Vietnam Gran Fondo Championships in 2024 - IRCtire Cup. Mr. Nguyen Van Toan, the Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee attended the opening ceremony.


The athletes participating in the tournament.


There were over 320 male and female athletes from 20 cycling clubs nationwide participating in the tournament. The athletes competed on the companion track at SEA Games 31. The IRCtire Cup race was divided into 2 distances for 5 groups of athletes.

The young men (aged 30 and below) and the middlemen (aged 31 - 45) competed for 30.83km. The senior men (aged 46 and above), the young women (aged 40 and below), and the senior women (aged 41 and above) competed for 21.93km. In addition, the IRCtire Cup also has a 5-km competition class for the movement athletes participating in free competition, not included in the prize.

Organizing the tournament aims to effectively implement the campaign "All people do exercises according to the great example of Uncle Ho”. It also propagates and mobilizes the people to increase the use of bicycles as a means of transport, contributing to reducing traffic congestion, being environmentally friendly...

After a morning of fierce competition from the athletes and the serious and responsible work of the referee team, the Organizing Committee awarded prizes from first to tenth place to the athletes with the outstanding achievements.

Specifically (first prizes only), the senior women's content belongs to the athlete Do Thi Thanh Hien (No. 103) - the team content belongs to Cat Viet Thai Club; the young women's content belongs to Nguyen Thi Yen (number 004); The senior men's content: Ta Van Dac (No. 438) -the teammate of the Fourth War Zone Bicycle Club in Dong Trieu; the middle-aged men's content: Ho Phuoc Nghia (No. 324) – the teammate belongs to Cat Viet Thai Club; The young men's content: Tran Van Tot (No. 208) – the teammate belongs to Tuan Biker Hanoi Club 1.

The organizing committee also awarded the prizes to the athletes in the men's and women's movement categories for all ages.

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