The Cycling Federation of India is the national

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India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. It is a member of the UCI and the Asian Cycling Confederation. Cycling as a sport was introduced in India thanks to the effort of actor and sportsman

Jankidas Jankidas Mehra (1910 – 18 June 2003) was an Indian actor of Hindi cinema, cyclist, production designer, and writer. He made over 1000 film appearances between the 1930s and 1997. Biography Sports Jankidas served as the only Indian member of ...

in the mid 1930s. It reached its international level when Jankidas and his manager Swami Jagan Nath participated in the 1938 British Empire Games at Sydney. With the pioneering of these two, Indian cycling was able to secure its affiliation to the National Cyclists' Union of England. A few years later, another stalwart, Sohrab H. Bhoot of Bombay, joined Jankidas to form the National Cyclists' Federation of India in 1946, and they registered this new body with the world governing association, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The Cycling Federation of India then sent teams to the Olympic Games, the Asian Games, and major international cycling events – for example, the London Olympics in 1948; the Warsaw-Berlin-Prague Race (the

Peace Race The Peace Race (german: Friedensfahrt, cs, Závod míru, sk, Preteky mieru, russian: Велогонка Мира (), pl, Wyścig Pokoju , french: Course de la Paix, it, Corsa della Pace, ro, Cursa Păcii) was an annual multiple stage bicycl ...

) in 1952, 1954, 1955 (where the organisers covered all expenses and so these peace races were cost-free to Indian authorities);Herbie Sykes
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Gallery

File:India-Cycle-Sporting-2-1948LondonOlympics.jpg, India cylists at the 1948 Olympics,

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File:India-Cycle-Sporting-2-1948LondonOlympics-c.jpg, India cyclists at the 1948 Olympics (standing, l to r: Bhoot (in jacket with hat), Adi Havewala, x, Nariman Saugar (in jacket with cap); seated, l to r: x (in blazer), x, Malcolm, Mehra, x) File:India-Cycle-Sporting-2-1948LondonOlympics-d.jpg, India cyclists at the London Olympics File:India-Cycle-Sporting-3-AsianGames1951b.jpg, India cyclists at

1951 Asian Games The 1951 Asian Games ( hi, 1951 एशियाई खेल; Marathi: १९५१ आशियाई खेळ), officially known as the First Asian Games, was a multi-sport event celebrated in New Delhi, India from 4 to 11 March 1951. The Ga ...

– cycling team pursuit silver medallists Raj Kumar Mehra (standing on podium); Gurdev Singh, Dhangar (Lhanguard), Madan Mohan (standing left to right); and manager Bhoot (standing, fourth from left in blazer) File:India-Cycle-Sporting-4-internationalevent2.jpg, 1952 Kassel: Indian cyclists at international event (Dhana Singh (third from left), Rusi MullaFeroze (fifth from left in glasses), Malcolm (seated to right), Bhoot (standing in blazer)) File:India-Cycle-Sporting-4-internationalevent.jpg, Indian cyclists enroute 1954-55

: (Dhana Singh (fourth from left), Bhoot (second from right in coat), Papa Pawar (first from left in coat)) File:India-Cycle-Sporting-4-internationalevent-warsaw-berlin-prague-race.jpg, 1954 Peace Race, first stage in Warsaw File:India-Cycle-Sporting-4-internationalevent3-germany.jpg, Indian cyclists at Peace Race ahead of team Egypt: (l-to-r): Chakravarti, Mehra, Dhana Singh File:India-Cycle-Sporting-4-1954.jpg, Indian cyclists 1954: Malcolm, Bhoot

References

External links

Forum for cycling in Bangalore (cycling capital of India)

Bangalore Bicycle Championships
– official pages of amateur races * Indian teams at the Olympic Games
19481952
(Sports-Reference.com) {{International cycling

Cycle racing organizations Sports governing bodies in India Cycle racing in India Sports organizations established in 1946 1946 establishments in India Organisations based in Delhi