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According to the latest UCI rankings.the Indian men's junior team has moved to top of the table ... The Indian men's junior team has moved from a previous rank of 11th place to top of the table, with a tally of 1012.5 points ... At second is Poland, with 960 points, followed by Korea at third with 900 ... Junior men's team cyclist Sanuraj is ranked tenth in the individual Keirin category ... There was further improvement for India in the women juniors table too, where in the Team Sprint the cyclists moved up four places to occupy eighth place ... Cyclist Anu Chotia enjoys two top-20 rankings as per the UCI, at No 8 in the individual 500m time trial and 19th in the Sprint category ... In the Women Elite table, India are at 18th place while in the 500m time trial, Deborah Herold sits at sixth.

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At Track Cycling World Championships 2016,

India's 20 yrs old young cycling sensation Deborah Herold created history by qualifying for the 2016 Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Track Cycling World Championships for the first time in India's history ... In December, Deborah had become the first Indian female cyclist to reach the heights of fourth place in the UCI individual world ranking.

Criteria for qualification at the Track Cycling World Championships is based on a cyclist's points tally at UCI organised events ... In October, she clinched five medals at the Taiwan Cup Track International Classic - a record gold in the women's elite sprint category - including a gold, three silver and a bronze ... Then in December she won three medals at the 2015 Track Asia Cup held in New Delhi, thus helping India's cycling contingent finish third with 11 medals.

Deborah's story is one of inspiration, for when the devastating 2004 tsunami hit Port Blair, a nine-year-old Deborah had to spend over a week stuck in a tree until help arrived.