Ronaldo Laitonjam is an Indian

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

, who competes in sprinting events.

Career

He became the first Indian to win a medal at the

Asian Cycling Championships The Asian Cycling Championships is an annual continental cycling championships for road bicycle racing and track cycling since 1963, exclusively for Asian cyclists selected by the national governing body (member nations of the Asian Cycling Confed ...

. He has won three medals (1 silver and 2 bronze). He has competed at the

2022 Commonwealth Games The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England bet ...

in the

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team sprint The team sprint (also sometimes known as the Olympic sprint) is a track cycling event. Despite its name, it is not a conventional cycling sprint event – it is a three-rider team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome. The current men's ...

and

1 km time trial The track time trial is a track cycling event where cyclists compete individually against the clock to record the fastest time over the specified distance from a standing start. Time trial bikes Track time trial bikes differ from normal track bik ...

. He also competed at the

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and 2022 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He finished second overall in the kilometer at the

2021 UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup The 2021 UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup (also known as the Tissot UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a multi-race tournament over a track cycling season. It was the first series of the UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup organised ...

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* {{India-cycling-bio-stub 2002 births Living people Indian male cyclists Indian track cyclists Sportspeople from Imphal Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for India Cyclists at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for India