The national junior cycling team stormed into the history books over the weekend at the Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships in Suriname, as Akil Campbell's two gold medals led T&T to its best ever medal haul at a regional cycling event.
The T&T team, which included Tyler Cole, Teniel Campbell, Keiana Lester, Jeron Loubon, Kasim Charles-Walcott and Nicholas Paul, won six medals. T&T captured four gold, one silver and one bronze.
T&T competed in all three categories, the junior men (17-18 years), juvenile men (15-16 years) and junior ladies (15-18 years) in the road time trial and road race events.
Campbell dominated the junior men's category, as the ten-time reigning junior national champion swept the junior men's events after winning both the road time trial and road race on Saturday and Sunday respectively.
Cole, 14, making his debut for T&T, was also dominant as he grabbed two medals, bronze in the road time trial and gold in the road race.
T&T's exceptional performance was capped off by Campbell and Lester, who won gold and silver respectively in the junior ladies road race.
The T&T senior team will aim to continue the success when a six-member team led by veteran Emile Abraham travels to Puerto Rico to compete in the Elite Caribbean Cycling Championships on Saturday and Sunday.
The senior squad includes Gevan Samuel, Gavyn Nero, James Hadeed, Marc Codrington and Christiane Farah, the only women on the team.