Nicholas Paul of Trinidad and Tobago in motion on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Aug. 8, 2021.
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T&T’s Nicholas Paul attained his second particular person gold medal, the third of 4 medals he received when he took the highest spot within the males’s time trial last on the ultimate day of the Elite Pan American Monitor Biking Championships on the Paraguay Nationwide Olympic Biking Velodrome in Asuncion, Paraguay.
Paul, the penultimate rider of the eight-man last, clocked 59.729 seconds with a mean velocity of 60.272 kilometers per hour over the 1,000m. The 26-year-old can also be the 2021 World Championship silver medal winner within the occasion and a bronze medalist at each the 2018 Pan American Championĺships and 2022 Commonwealth Video games.
In the meantime, Colombian Cristian Ortega needed to accept the silver medal in a single minute, 00.372 seconds, whereas Canada’s James Hedgcock took the bronze medal in a single minute, 00.798 seconds.
Paul’s gold medal added to his victories within the staff dash with Paul, Njisane Phillip, and Ryan D’Abreau within the match dash, whereas he additionally secured a silver medal within the Keirin.
The opposite finishers within the time trial last had been Canada’s Ryan Dodyk, who completed in 1:01.059 minutes, the USA’s David Domonoske, who completed in 1:01.405 minutes, Mexico’s Edgar Verdugo Osuna, who completed in 1:01.676, Brazilian Joao Victor Da Silva, who completed in 1:01.815, and Argentina’s Juan Bautista Rodriguez, who completed in 1:05.457.
Earlier, within the qualifying spherical, Ortega was the highest qualifier of the 25 cyclists with a time of 59.514 seconds at a velocity of 60.490 km/h. Paul was shut behind in 59.669 at a high velocity of 60.333 km/h, as the 2 had been the one riders below the one-minute barrier.
The trio of Hedgcock (1:00.944), Dodyk (1:01.124), and Osuna (1:01.214) rounded out the highest 5 qualifiers, with Da Silva (1:01.615), Domonoske (1:01.643), and Rodriguez (1:02.529), the sixth, seventh, and eighth greatest from the sector, to safe their locations within the last.
The native ladies’s staff of Teniel Campbell, who received the ladies’s 25km factors race and was fourth within the ladies’s particular person pursuit (2500m), which adopted proper after, and Alexi Ramirez simply missed out on a medal after a fourth-place end within the 12-team Madison (120 laps/30km) experience with a complete of eight factors, only one shy of Canada’s Lily Plante and Fiona Majende.
Colombians Lina Marcela Hernandez and Eliza Beth Castano received gold with 49 factors, and the USA’s Bethany Ingram and Olivia Cummins received silver with 42.
Earlier within the week, Campbell earned a bronze medal within the ladies’s elimination race behind gold medal winner Yareli Acevedo of Mexico and Cuba’s Marlies Mejias.
