Perlumbaan Kriterium Berbasikal Remaja Malaysia (JCM) tidak hanya akan menghasilkan atlet bagi acara lebuhraya semata mata tetapi mampu melahirkan pelumba yang mampu beraksi untuk acara trek.
Itu antara pandangan bekas pelumba kebangsaan, Musairi Musa, yang nyata berpuas hati dengan penganjuran JCM.
“JCM merupakan perlumbaan kriterium yang pantas dan pelumba beraksi dalam kelajuan yang tinggi kerana jaraknya yang pendek. Justeru ini juga merupakan salah satu platform buat barisan kejurulatihan untuk menilai pelumba yang berpotensi untuk digilap menjadi pelumba trek.”Kata Musairi.
Beliau juga turut meluangkan masa untuk melihat sendiri penganjuran JCM yang diadakan di Ipoh.
Jelas sekali Malaysia kini mempunyai perlumbaan yang efisien dalam membentuk bakal bakal pelapis negara bagi acara berbasikal.
“Inilah perlumbaan yang terbaik kerana bukan sahaja menumpukan program pembangunan akar umbi, tetapi ini juga menjadi medan kepada atlet elit untuk mengukur kemampuan diri dengan pelumba pelumba tempatan yang lain.”
“Perlumbaan di Ipoh sedikit berbeza berbanding di Serdang pada edisi pertama. Laluan di Ipoh bersifat mendatar dan ia pastinya memperlihatkan pelumba pelumba yang boleh dijadikan pakar pecut seperti Anuar Manan dan Mohd Harrif Salleh.”
“Berbeza di Serdang, laluan sedikit berbukit, perlumbaan sedikit berbeza dan penilaian jurulatih juga berbeza,” tambah Musairi lagi.
25 acara dipertandingkan di JCM Ipoh yang berlangsung pada Ahad 22 Mei lalu.
Antaranya kategori BMX dan Fixie dari umur 8 hingga 18 tahun, Kriterium remaja serta terbuka lelaki dan wanita.
Kriterium Berbasikal Remaja Malaysia (JCM) berikutnya akan berlangsung di Kelantan pada 4 Jun 2016.
Perlumbaan ini merupakan cetusan idea Menteri Belia dan Sukan Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar yang berhasrat untuk memberi pendedahan seawal usia 9 tahun dalam melahirkan pelumba berbasikal yang kompetitif diperingkat antarabangsa satu hari nanti.
JCM Ipoh, an opportunity to unearth track cyclists, says Musaira
The Ipoh Criterium, which is part of the Junior Cycling Malaysia (JCM) programme, this week was an important landmark in that it gave the coaching panel an opportunity to unearth new track cyclists.
The Ipoh Criterium is the second leg of the newly-introduced JCM programme under the Ministry of Youth and Sports. The first leg was held in Serdang earlier this month.
Former national cyclist Musairi Musa said that the Ipoh Criterium provided the coaching panel the best chance of selecting through more than 700 young participants.
“The Criterium races are very fast and racers will have to cope with a certain speed as the distance is very short,” said Musairi.
“This is the best platform for the coaches to have a look at the abilities of the cyclists and to see whether they have the potentials to go the distance.”
Musairi was on hand in Ipoh as part of the panel to assess the effectiveness of the programme and he was very impressed with the organization after just two legs of the JCM.
“The JCM programme is a very good programme as it allowed not only the young elites to contest their abilities but also give the youngsters the chance for exposure. It is a very important grassrot programme,” he added.
“The race in Ipoh is a bit different as the route was not as undulating as it was in Serdang. This will give the chance for the future sprinters to shine and be like Anuar Manan or Mohd Harrif Salleh.”
A total of 25 events were contested under JCM Ipoh among them BMX, Fixie between the ages of 8 and 18-years-old as well as Criterium for men and women.
In the men’s elite, Zawawi took the title with a time of 0:34:52 – the same as second-placed Sofian Nabil and third placed Irwandie .
In the women’s division in the meantime, Azrenna won with a time of 0:14:01 while Jupha came in second with 0:14:17 – the same as third placed Nurul Suhada Zainal.
The next JCM programme will be held in Kelantan on 4 Jun 2016.
The JCM is the brainchild of Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar, the Minister for Youth and Sports, as a means of giving cyclists as young as nine years old the chance to gain proper exposure for the sport.
