(L-R) Nicholas Paul of Staff Trinidad And Tobago and Cristian David Ortega Fontalvo of Staff Colombia compete in the course of the Males’s Keirin – First Spherical on day fifteen of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome on Aug. 10, 2024 in Paris, France.
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T&T ace bicycle owner Nicholas Paul missed out on a medal within the males’s dash ultimate after he positioned fourth within the Tissot UCI Monitor World Championship in Ballerup, Denmark.
Of their third-place battle, Japan’s Kaiya Ota beat Paul in two straight rides.
Within the first of the best-of-three rides, Ota received in 9.847 seconds, with Paul +0.409 seconds behind. Within the second experience, the Asian bicycle owner was additionally forward, in 9.869 seconds, with the T&T sprinter +0.217 seconds behind.
Holland’s Harrie Lavreysen took the gold medal in two rides in 9.641 and 9.726 as countryman Jeffrey Hooglan was +1.026 and +0.150 seconds behind, respectively, copping silver.
Beforehand, Paul booked his spot within the males’s dash semi-final on the Tissot UCI Monitor World Championships on October 19 when he defeated Joseph Truman of Nice Britain in two straight rides in one of the best of three races. Paul received the primary race +0.121 and the opposite by 0.11 seconds within the 200m occasion.
Harrie Lavreysen of the Netherlands defeated Yuta Obara of Japan in two straight races. Nonetheless, Jeffrey Hoogland of the Netherlands wanted a decider to defeat Israeli Mikhail Yakovlev, whereas Kaiya Ota defeated Leigh Hoffman in two straight races.
Within the spherical of 16, Paul edged out Tijmen van Loon of Netherlands (+0.099) within the 200m occasion. Within the preliminary spherical, Paul completed with the third quickest time of 9.49 secs behind first-placed Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen 9.306 and Yakovlev 9.404 in second.
This comes after he was eradicated within the males’s keirin quarter-finals on the 2024 Tissot UCI Monitor World Championships in Ballerup, Denmark, on October 17.
Paul routinely superior to the quarter-final stage after putting second in warmth two behind three-time Paris Olympic gold medallist Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen.
Likewise, the highest two finishers from the opposite 4 heats additionally progressed.
Paul didn’t fare properly into the quarters and completed sixth of six riders in warmth considered one of three. Solely the highest 4 finishers moved on to the semis.
