Fatehah Cyclist
Fatehah Mustapa (born 12 March 1989 in Terengganu) is a Malaysian cyclist. She competed in the Keirin race at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she placed 15th.
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she reached the bronze medal race in the women's sprint which she lost 2-0 to Jess Varnish. She also finished 5th in the women's 500 m time trial. At the 2016 Olympics, she competed in the women's sprint. Fatehah Mustapa is accustomed to creating history right from the beginning of her cycling career, the London and Tokyo Olympics provides just another test of how well her star has shone.
The Kuala Terengganu lass lines up for the women’s keirin at the London Velodrome as the first ever woman cyclist to qualify for the Olympics and she has achieved that four years ahead of schedule, as the Malaysian National Cycling Federation (MNCF) had initially targeted her for the 2016 Olympics. It’s all been fast-tracked as the reigning Asian women’s keirin champion has gone through two of her best seasons yet, which has seen her rise to prominence on the world stage as well.
Fatehah has come a long way since she first exploded onto the scene in the 2004 Malaysia Games in Negri Sembilan when she stunned a field of mainly elite national riders to win the road race gold medal. At just 15 then, she set the record as the youngest ever cyclist to win a gold medal in that Games which still stands.
Malaysia had waited 44 years before Noor Azian Alias won the country’s first medal in a women’s event at the Asian Cycling Championships, a silver medal in the road in Bangkok in 2007.
But Fatehah had bettered that with multiple medals since she raced as an elite rider in 2008 and topped that with another piece of history for herself when she delivered the first gold medal in the keirin at the Asian meet in Kuala Lumpur in April 2014.
Major results
- 2011
- 1st 500m Time Trial SEA Games
- 2012
- 1st Keirin Asian Cycling Championships
- 2nd Sprint Asian Cycling Championships
- 3rd Time Trial 500m Asian Cycling Championships
- 3rd Sprint Grand Prix von Deutschland
- 3rd Keirin Grand Prix von Deutschland
- 2013
- 1st Sprint Asian Cycling Championships
- 1st Keirin Asian Cycling Championships
- 3rd Time Trial 500m Asian Cycling Championships
- 1st Sprint, Time Southeast Asian Grand Prix
- 3rd Keirin, Melbourne Cup on Wheels
- 2014
- 1st Sprint, South East Asian GP Track (2)
- South East Asian GP Track (3)
- 1st Keirin
- 2nd Sprint
- 2nd Keirin
- 2013-2014 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
- 2nd Keirin
- 2014 Asian Games, South East Asian GP Track
- 2nd Keirin
- 2nd Sprint
- 2nd Keirin,
- 3rd 500m, Time, Trial,
- 2014 Asian Cycling Championships
- 3rd Keirin, Australia
- 2015
- Japan Track Cup
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Sprint
- South East Asian GP Track
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Sprint
- Asian Track Championships
- 2nd 500m Time Trial
- 3rd Sprint
- 2017
- 3rd Keirin, ITS Melbourne - Hisense Grand Prix
- Austral
- 3rd Keirin
- 3rd Sprint
- 2018
- National Championship Track, Elite, Malaysia (F), Malaysia
- 1st 500m
- 1st Track
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Elite
References