T&T Ja­di­an Neaves was 43rd of 60 com­peti­tors in the 31.2 kilo­me­tres Un­der-23 men's time tri­al when the UCI World Road Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships con­tin­ued in Ki­gali, Rwan­da, Mon­day (Sep­tem­ber 22).

The race be­gan at the Ki­gali BK Are­na and end­ed at Ki­gali Con­ven­tion Cen­tre, with the 19-year-old Neaves fin­ish­ing in 45 min­utes, 38.69 sec­onds, well adrift of Swe­den's Jakob Soderqvist who rode away with the gold medal with a time of 38 min­utes, 24.43 sec­onds fol­lowed by New Zealand's Nate Pringle who got sil­ver in 39 min­utes, 28.39 sec­onds, and France's Maxime De­comble in 39 min­utes, 28.56 sec­onds.

Neaves is ex­pect­ed to re­turn to ac­tion on Fri­day in the men's U-23 road race over a dis­tance of 164.6 km, while com­pa­tri­ot Te­niel Camp­bell will con­test the women's elite road race, a day lat­er, over the same dis­tance.

On Sun­day, the 27-year-old Camp­bell placed 23rd from a field of 44 cy­clists in the women’s Elite in­di­vid­ual time tri­al con­test­ed over the same 31.2 km course in 48 min­utes, 25.09 sec­onds, fin­ish­ing five min­utes, 15.75 sec­onds be­hind the gold medal win­ner, Marlen Reuss­er of Switzer­land, who took gold in 43:09.34 with Hol­land’s An­na Van Der Breggen tak­ing the sil­ver medal in 44:01.23 and her coun­try­woman De­mi Vol­ler­ing, the sil­ver in 44:14.07.

Rwan­da is host­ing the UCI Road World Cham­pi­onships for the first time, with the cap­i­tal of Rwan­da, Ki­gali, pro­vid­ing the stage for this his­toric week of rac­ing end­ing Sep­tem­ber 28.