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NAMSAI, 4 Jan:<\/strong> Canadian endurance cyclist and former four-time 24-hr world champion Cory Wallace won the MTB Northeast International Challenge 2025, widely acclaimed as the world’s longest and toughest one-day mountain biking race, by clocking a new world record of 12 hours, 29 minutes and 55 seconds.<\/p>\n The gruelling race commenced from Dirak Gate in the midnight of 30 December and covered a 303-km route from Namsai to Kaho, the first village of India, pushing riders to the limits of physical endurance and mental resilience.<\/p>\n Wallace finished ahead of Manmohan Singh of team Army Adventure Wings (AAW\/India), who secured the first runner-up position, while Raman Manhas, also representing the Indian Army, finished second runner-up.<\/p>\n In the men’s elite 150-km category, Akshay Kumar from AAW, India emerged victorious, followed by Achyut K from Nepal as first runner-up and Ananda Jana as second runner-up.<\/p>\n In the junior boys’ (U-18) category, Dekkar Lendo from Arunachal Pradesh claimed the title, followed by Sawgat Achhimi from Nepal and Kevin Lyngdoh from Meghalaya at second and the third position, respectively.<\/p>\n \u00a0In the women’s elite category, Nane Mega from Arunachal claimed the top honour, while Kasturee Doley from Assam finished second.<\/p>\n The masters 35+ category was won by Krashanvendra Singh Yadav from the Indian Military Academy, while Joseng Marak from Meghalaya and Pratap Singh Rawat finished second and third, respectively.<\/p>\n In the non-MTB 150-km (female) category, Usha Khanal from Nepal emerged the winner.<\/p>\n The closing ceremony was attended by Women & Child Development Minister Dasanglu Pul and Anjaw Deputy Commissioner Millo Kojin.<\/p>\n Earlier, the event had been inaugurated by Sports & Youth Affairs Minister Kento Jini in the presence of Prem Singh Rawat, head of project, THDC India Limited.<\/p>\n Race director Ijum Gadi informed that, out of 53 cyclists, only four riders could “conquer” the MTB challenge. Cyclists from 15 states and three countries participated in the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NAMSAI, 4 Jan: Canadian endurance cyclist and former four-time 24-hr world champion Cory Wallace won the MTB Northeast International Challenge 2025, widely acclaimed as the world’s longest and toughest one-day mountain biking race, by clocking a new world record of 12 hours, 29 minutes and 55 seconds. The gruelling race commenced from Dirak Gate in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}