'Cycling poster boy' Nahm falls short in individual road race to finish fifth, snapping three-game winning streak

Na Na-rim of the South Korean cycling team.

Na Na-rim (33-SAMYANG), the poster girl for South Korea's cycling roads, failed to qualify for the individual road race at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games.

Na finished fifth in the women's individual road race final with a time of 25:56.08 on Wednesday at the Chun'an Jiexiu Sports Center in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

Naerm returned from Jakarta-Palembang 2018 five years ago with four gold medals in the individual road, road race, team pursuit and keirin, straddling the line between road and track.

Heading into the event, Naarm was the most decorated athlete at the Games (five), along with fencing's Gubongil, so he was highly favored to win gold.

The 18.3-kilometer road race is a solo event with no teammates or competitors, so it's all about the individual's race execution, and she was disappointed with her relatively poor performance.

Naerm, who previously won bronze in the women's Madison, will try to win gold again in the individual road race, the final event of the cycle, at 11 a.m. on Thursday.

Uzbekistan's Olga Zabelinskaya won the race in a time of 24:35.99. The silver medal went to Japan's Eri Yonamine (25:35.59).

The bronze medal went to Kazakhstan's Sultanova Linata (25:36.10). 스포츠토토맨

After winning gold at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games, Na was unfortunately denied a second consecutive title.

She finished the Games with one silver and one bronze medal, following her bronze in the women's track madison with Lee Joo-mi (Korea Sports Promotion Organization).

Na Na-rim won four medals at the Games five years ago - women's road race, individual road, track team pursuit and madison - but failed to bring home a gold medal this time around.

Na-rim, who has won five gold medals at the Asian Games, including the road race individual medal at Incheon 2014, had hoped to win her sixth gold medal at the Games, the most by a Korean athlete in history.

Park Tae-hwan (swimming), Nam Hyun-hee (fencing) and Ryu Seo-yeon (bowling) share the record for most gold medals won by a South Korean at an Asian Games.

Despite falling short of the gold medal tally, Na added two more medals to his tally at the Games, giving him nine medals at the Asian Games.