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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Paul pedals to silver at the World Championships

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Ryan Bachoo
712 days ago
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Nicholas paul

Nicholas paul

Nicholas Paul made his mark on the UCI World Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships, se­cur­ing sil­ver for Trinidad and To­ba­go on Mon­day in the Elite Men’s Sprint event.

Paul sus­tained his on­ly two loss­es in the com­pe­ti­tion at the Sir Chris Hoy Velo­drome in Scot­land in the best-of-three fi­nal at the hands of two-time Olympic gold medal­list Har­rie Lavrey­sen, who picked up his fifth world sprint ti­tle. Still, the T&T cy­clist adds a sec­ond sil­ver to his col­lec­tion af­ter pick­ing up Time Tri­al sil­ver at the 2021 World Cham­pi­onships.

Ear­li­er in the day, Paul made sure of pre­cious met­al by de­feat­ing Poland’s Rudyk Ma­teusz in two se­mi-fi­nal rides to reach the de­cider.

The T&T speed­ster al­so dis­posed of British rid­er Joseph Tru­man in the quar­ter­fi­nal round. And in the 1/8 round, he got past three-time sprint sil­ver medal­list Jef­frey Hoog­land, Lavrey­sen’s coun­try­man, who edged Paul in the time tri­al last time out. In the 1/16 round, Paul earned a bye af­ter fin­ish­ing third in the pre­lim­i­nary Fly­ing 200 event, al­so topped by Lavrey­sen.

Al­so rep­re­sent­ing the Red, White and Black, Ak­il Camp­bell fin­ished 22nd over­all in the Om­ni­um com­pe­ti­tion af­ter com­plet­ing the points race.

Paul will next line up in Heat 2 of the Men’s keirin event to­mor­row (Aug. 8), with com­pa­tri­ot Kwe­si Browne ex­pect­ed to start in Heat 4.

Te­niel Camp­bell, the lone fe­male com­peti­tor from T&T, will con­test the Women’s Elite In­di­vid­ual Time Tri­al event on Thurs­day and the Women’s Elite Road Race on Au­gust 13.

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