Scheduled to start tomorrow and last four four days, the Track Cycling Nations Cup leg is to be held at the Hong Kong Velodrome.

Teams started training there on Monday (May 10) ahead of the competition, which will be held behind closed doors due to the pandemic.

There will be 16 nations represented in the men's competition and 12 in the women's, including the hosts, the United States, Japan, Spain, Denmark and Ukraine.

Teams and riders will also be able to gain qualifying points for this year's UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Ashgabat in Turkmenistan in October.

It will be Hong Kong's first major international sporting event since the pandemic hit in early 2020.

"To be able to bring a world-class track cycling event to Hong Kong again is a big boost for sports overall in Hong Kong," said the President of the Hong Kong - China Cycling Association, Leung Cheong Ming.

Individual and team sprints, individual and team pursuits, 500-metre and kilometre scratch races, elimination races, plus the keirin, madison and omnium, are all set to be contested.

World champions Yumi Kajihara of Japan and Yauheni Karaliok of Belarus are set to feature, as is world silver medallist Ashton Lambie of the US, who came second behind Italy's Filippo Ganna in the individual pursuit in Berlain last year.

Four Asian champions - Eiya Hashimoto, Kazushige Kuboki, Yudai Nitta and Yuta Wakimoto - are also set to compete for Japan; while former and current European champions Andreas Graf from Austria and German pair Leon Rohde and Domenic Weinstein are due to deture also.

Hong Kong's leading athlete will be Olympic bronze medallist Lee Wai Sze who is set to compete in the team and individual sprints as well as the time trial.