T&T's cy­clists did not win any medals on the fourth and penul­ti­mate day of the Pan Amer­i­can Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships in Guatemala yes­ter­day. Samuel Ma­habir fin­ished sixth in heat three of the keirin, with the top two au­to­mat­i­cal­ly ad­vanc­ing to the semi­fi­nal round. It meant that the Ari­ma Wheel­ers cy­clist had to go through the repecharge in or­der to move for­ward. Ma­habir faced Ibanez (URU), Pas­tri­an (CHI) and Vasquez (CRC) in heat two of the keirin repecharge round where on­ly the win­ner would ad­vance to the semi­fi­nal. A strong ride by the T&T rid­er saw him com­ing in sec­ond, un­for­tu­nate­ly one spot too far down to ad­vance. Mean­while, Ak­il Camp­bell cur­rent­ly sits in tenth place af­ter three events with 30 points in the Om­ni­um af­ter he clocked a per­son­al best in the Fly­ing Lap (250m) with a 14.808 sec­onds. That time earned him a cred­i­ble ten points for a tenth place fin­ish. In the sec­ond of six Om­ni­um events, Camp­bell fin­ished sixth in the fi­nal sprint but a lap down to the lead­ers, earn­ing him an 11th place fin­ish over­all and a fur­ther 11 points to his tal­ly. Thus the young­ster stood on 21 points af­ter two events and in 11th po­si­tion over­all.

The fi­nal Om­ni­um event of the day was the elim­i­na­tion or as the lo­cal jar­gon would call it "Dev­il take the Hind­most." Camp­bell put in an im­proved per­for­mance as he sur­vived the first four elim­i­na­tions on­ly to be nipped for a ninth place fin­ish and nine more points, tak­ing his to­tal to 30. With three more events re­main­ing (3km In­di­vid­ual Pur­suit, Scratch Race and 1km Time Tri­al) to­day, the Rigtech Son­ics cy­clist stands in 11th place, three points be­hind his clos­est com­peti­tor, Re­na­to Tapia (PER) on 27. In a bit of bad news, Kwe­si Browne crashed yes­ter­day as well and was sub­se­quent­ly tak­en to the hos­pi­tal. Camp­bell will face the starter in the sec­ond heat of the in­di­vid­ual pur­suit ver­sus Tapia at 12 pm T&T time. With Justin Roberts still un­able to re­cov­er from the in­juries he sus­tained in his fall dur­ing the quar­ter­fi­nal stage of the Sprints, Ma­habir has been cho­sen to ride the Kilo­me­tre Time Tri­al to­day. The gru­el­ing event kicks off first at 11 am (T&T Time) and Ma­habir will line up as the sec­ond of 24 en­trants to test the clock on the fi­nal day of the Cham­pi­onships. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, due to the change in the pro­gramme, the ladies keirin event will be con­test­ed to­day and it is ex­pect­ed that Az­iza Browne and Jo­di Goodridge will com­pete. The two are look­ing to make-up for their per­for­mance in the sprints.