T&T cy­clist Te­niel Camp­bell won her sec­ond gold medal at the Caribbean Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships Sun­day (Oc­to­ber 12) in Be­lize.

Fol­low­ing her tri­umph in the Elite Women's Time Tri­al event on Sat­ur­day (Oc­to­ber 11), Camp­bell, the on­ly fe­male rid­er from T&T and the Caribbean to com­pete at the Tour de France Femmes, re­turned to the road to clinch the gold medal in the Road Race. The race was a gru­elling 108-kilo­me­tre grind that start­ed at 8 am on Sun­day.

Camp­bell sealed the gold medal in a time of three hours, five min­utes, and 20 sec­onds to get the bet­ter of Gabriel­la Arnold of Bermu­da, cross­ing the fin­ish line af­ter three hours, five min­utes, and 51 sec­onds. Arnold was a third-place fin­ish­er in the time tri­al but would be hap­py to have im­proved on the colour of her medal.

Eve­lyn Di­az Matos of Cu­ba pro­duced a bat­tling dis­play to se­cure the bronze medal af­ter her time of three hours, sev­en min­utes, and 59 sec­onds proved to be suf­fi­cient.

With the re­sults, Camp­bell se­cured a spot for the coun­try to com­pete at the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games to be held next year in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, from Ju­ly 24 to Au­gust 8.

The pres­i­dent of the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion, Rowe­na Williams, said on Sat­ur­day that they left T&T on a mis­sion to win medals and qual­i­fy for the CAC Games, which is what Camp­bell did on Sat­ur­day, and she ex­pect­ed Camp­bell to con­tin­ue in the same trend yes­ter­day. Williams de­scribed Camp­bell as be­ing in a dif­fer­ent class to her com­peti­tors in the Caribbean.

Berenice Paul of Guade­loupe took the fourth-place spot af­ter three hours, nine min­utes, and 54 sec­onds, with Llori Sharpe, the Ja­maican who se­cured the sil­ver medal in the time tri­al in a time of 31 min­utes and 58.0 sec­onds, storm­ing home in fifth po­si­tion yes­ter­day in three hours, 19 min­utes, and 53 sec­onds.

Mean­while, the coun­try was sched­uled to be rep­re­sent­ed by four rid­ers for the men’s road race Sun­day, name­ly Ja­di­an Neaves, Liam Trepte, who placed 11th in the time tri­al the day be­fore, Tariq Woods, and Ak­il Camp­bell, the broth­er of Te­niel Camp­bell, who was fifth in the time tri­al, how­ev­er, up to press time last night, no re­sults were forth­com­ing fol­low­ing a late start to the event.