The national track team led by Jhon Jaime González will travel next Saturday to Germany to play the World Track Championship, which will take place from February 26 to March 1 at the Berlin velodrome.
The international contest will be the last scale of the members of the selected course for Tokyo 2020, with the novelty of Andina as the main sponsor of the national representative.
In the German capital, Kevin Santiago Quintero, winner and medalist of the Keirin in the last stops of the World Cup, will look for the classification to his first Olympic Games.
Meanwhile, Martha Bayona, world runner-up of Keirin in 2017, will go for her second participation in an Olympiad after her debut in Rio de Janeiro 2016, where she was semifinalist in the same specialty.
Santiago Ramírez and Juliana Gaviria, who have also been national representatives in the most important event of world sport, complete the payroll with the illusion of obtaining a good performance, and therefore, valuable points to obtain one of the boxes in the speed tests .
Athletes will travel from Medellín, at 4 pm, with connections to Panama and Frankfurt.
The team will be accompanied by the president of the Colombian Cycling Federation, Jorge Mauricio Vargas.
Delegation:
Kevin Santiago Quintero
Santiago Ramírez Morales
Martha Bayona Pineda
Juliana Gaviria Rendón
Technician: Jhon Jaime González
Delegate: Jorge Mauricio Vargas
Massage: Danilo Suárez
Physiotherapist: Oriana González
Mechanic: Aliter Tejada