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| Sport | Cycling |
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| Jurisdiction | India |
| Abbreviation | CFI |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Affiliation | Union Cycliste Internationale |
| Regional affiliation | Asian Cycling Confederation |
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TheCycling Federation of India is the nationalgoverning body ofcycle racing inIndia. It is a member of theUnion Cycliste Internationale and theAsian Cycling Confederation.
Cycling as a sport was introduced in India thanks to the effort of actor and sportsmanJankidas in the mid 1930s. It reached its international level when Jankidas and his manager Swami Jagan Nath participated in the 1938British Empire Games at Sydney. With the pioneering of these two, Indian cycling was able to secure its affiliation to theNational Cyclists' Union. 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.
The Cycling Federation of India then sent teams to the Olympic Games, theAsian Games, and major international cycling events – for example, theLondon Olympics in 1948; the Warsaw-Berlin-Prague Race (thePeace Race) in 1952, 1954, 1955 (where the organisers covered all expenses and so these peace races were cost-free to Indian authorities);[1] and the Tokyo International Championships in 1961.
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