T&T’s Alexi Cos­ta-Ramirez copped sil­ver in the women’s om­ni­um at the Pan Amer­i­can Elite Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships which con­tin­ued at the Vi­cente Ale­jo Chan­cay Velo­drome, in San Juan, Ar­genti­na on Fri­day night.

The lo­cal cy­clist fin­ish­es with 130 points, be­hind gold medal­list Vic­to­ria Ve­laz­co Fuentes of Mex­i­co. In third place was Colom­bian Lina Ma­bel Ro­jas Za­p­a­ta with 128 points.

The Om­ni­um is an event con­sist­ing of four races that take place on the same day: the scratch race, the tem­po race, the elim­i­na­tion race and the points race. For the first three races, rid­ers earn 40 points for a win, 38 for sec­ond and 36 for third and on down a de­scend­ing scale.

In the fi­nal 80-lap points race, points are award­ed for a sprint every 10 laps, in­clud­ing dou­ble points for the last sprint. Cy­clists al­so gain and lose points by lap­ping the field or get­ting lapped.

The even­tu­al win­ner led by 24 points over Cos­ta-Ramirez go­ing in­to the points race. The Mex­i­can end­ed up win­ning by nine points over a de­ter­mined Ramirez.

Cos­ta-Ramirez, who re­cent­ly joined the pro­fes­sion­al team Mi­a­mi Raiders af­ter a stint with CWA Rac­ing, missed out on a medal in the Scratch Race on Wednes­day night.

She fin­ished on­ly ahead of two of the 13 rid­ers, Ecuado­ri­an Dayana Aguilar, and Uruguayan, Pao­la Sil­va. Mex­i­can An­tonien­ta Gazi­o­la won the 7.5km 30-laps events ahead of Brazil’s Welly­da Dos San­tos, with USA’s Gulick Colleen, third.

Nicholas Paul is the lone T&T rid­er, re­main­ing in the Men’s Sprint event.

The reign­ing Keirin cham­pi­on clocked 9.439 sec­onds at a speed of 76.279 km/h to qual­i­fy for the round of 16 with the fastest time in the qual­i­fi­ca­tion round. T&T’s Kwe­si Browne al­so moved on to the next round with a time of 10.018 to be 12th over­all while com­pa­tri­ot Quni­cy Alexan­der just missed out on ad­vanc­ing af­ter plac­ing 17th with 10.139.

Paul (10.185) faced off against Amer­i­can Evan Boone in heat one in the 1/8 Fi­nals and emerged the win­ner to book a spot in the quar­ter­fi­nals. Lat­er in heat five of the 1/8 Fi­nals, Browne was elim­i­nat­ed by Cana­di­an Ryan Dodyk (10.312).

Paul will be chal­lenged by Colom­bia’s San­ti­a­go Ramirez Morales in the quar­ter­fi­nals, to­day.

The T&T cy­clist is chas­ing his sec­ond gold af­ter re­tain­ing his men’s Keirin ti­tle on Thurs­day night. The 24-year-old won ahead of Suri­namese Jair Tjon En Fa and Cana­da’s James Hedg­cock bagged bronze ahead of Colom­bian Kevin Quin­tero, Dodyk, and T&T’s Browne in the six-man fi­nal con­test­ed over six laps.

On Wednes­day night, Paul part­nered with Browne and Zion Puli­do claimed the sil­ver medal in the Men’s Team Sprint fi­nal.