Olympic cy­clist, Njisane Phillip has emerged as the Most Out­stand­ing Cy­clist 2013.He earned the ac­co­lade at the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion's Na­tion­al Cham­pi­onships Awards held at the VIP Lounge,Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, on Sat­ur­day.Phillip has been proud­ly rep­re­sent­ing T&T at meets in­ter­na­tion­al­ly, prov­ing him­self as a world beat­er.Ear­li­er this month Phillip be­came the T&T's first World Cup medal­list at the UCI World Cup Podi­um when he se­cured sil­ver in the men's sprint event in Man­ches­ter, Eng­land.

Back in Sep­tem­ber, he se­cured one gold and a sil­ver medal at the World Se­ries of Bi­cy­cling event–WSB In­ter­na­tion­al Cy­cling Union (UCI) Madi­son Cup–in Trexler­town, Penn­syl­va­nia, USA.

Jov­ian Gomez, 25, rep­re­sent­ing Team Dri­ve Phrase Sport (DPS) was an­oth­er big win­ner of the night tak­ing home the cov­et­ed Pres­i­dent's Tro­phy. To his cred­it Gomez was vot­ed as theFed­er­a­tion's Elite Male Cy­clist, while Ker­liann Welling­ton, cap­tured that prize in the fe­male cat­e­go­ry.

In­ter­viewed Gomez said,:"This is a big ac­com­plish­ment for me. This is the first time I won this for my cy­cling ca­reer. I start­ed rac­ing in 2007. My fa­ther was in­volved in cy­cling. He was a ca­su­al rid­er. He pulled me in­to the sport and I just have a love for it. I love the chal­lenge. I love rac­ing. I love the ex­cite­ment. That whole feel­ing of win­ning...it means a lot."He de­scribes his sport gru­elling and said it was tied to an unswerv­ing pas­sion that any­one in­ter­est­ed or in­volved in cy­cling must pos­sess to achieve suc­cess.

Awards

Most Out­stand­ing

Cy­clists 2013

Njisane Phillips, Most Out­stand­ing Cy­clist

Jov­ian Gomez, Pres­i­dent's Tro­phy win­ner

Jov­ian Gomez, Elite Male

Kristoff Fron­tin, Ju­ve­nile Male

Cheyenne Awai, Ju­nior Fe­male

Justin Roberts, Ju­nior Male

Ker­liann Welling­ton, Elite Fe­male

Jhor­dan St George, Tinymites Fe­male

Tyler Cole, Tinymites Male

Keiana Lester, Ju­ve­nile Fe­male

Mas­ters

Pat Nel­son, 65 and over

Pe­ter Her­nan­dez, 60-64

Clyde Pol­lanais, 55-59

Joel Browne, 50-54

Rocky Ho­sein 45-49

Ce­cil Hack­ett, 40-44

Youth De­vel­op­ment

D'An­ge­lo Har­ris, Un­der 13 Boys

Adri­an­na Sey­ja­gat, Un­der 13 Girls

Ryan D'Abreau, Un­der 11 Boys

Sylese Chris­t­ian, Un­der 11 Girls

Jesse Hen­der, Un­der 9 Boys

Alex­ia Wil­son, Un­der 9 Girls

Gabriel For­tune, Un­der 7 Boys