The four-woman team of Kayan­na May­ers, Rayann Shep­pard, Tyra Titte and Anaya Pope, rid­ing for the Rigtech Son­ics, sprint­ed to the gold medal and the na­tion­al ti­tle on Wednes­day (May 7) when the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion held its Na­tion­al Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va.

Con­test­ing the 2-kilo­me­tre Team Pur­suit event, which is the equiv­a­lent of eight laps of the track, the quar­tet, led by May­ers, com­plet­ed their ride in three min­utes, 23.65 sec­onds.

Mean­while, the Valkyries' four-man team of Eli­jah James, Cyril Fook, Mau­rice Lopez and ris­ing tal­ent El­isha Greene Jr held off a charge by the Rigtech Son­ics' four­some of Lawrence La Four, Wal­ter Paul, Je­duthum Hen­ry and Josi­ah Prince for the na­tion­al ti­tle among the men in the team pur­suit.

In a show­down for brag­ging rights and ei­ther the gold or sil­ver medal, the Valkyries men reigned supreme af­ter cross­ing the fin­ish line in a time of two min­utes, 40.99 sec­onds, to de­feat their op­po­nents, who man­aged to get over the line in a time of three min­utes, 03.58 sec­onds for sec­ond spot.

The event, held for rid­ers in the tinymites, ju­ve­nile and mas­ters' cat­e­gories, al­so saw Fook re­ceiv­ing two na­tion­al ti­tles on the day. The vet­er­an rid­er who has been mak­ing waves de­spite his en­try in­to the mas­ters, got his sec­ond ti­tle in the mas­ter's 60-plus cat­e­go­ry of the Scratch race, which re­quired him and his team to ped­al a dis­tance of 4.5 kilo­me­tres or 18 laps.

There were al­so na­tion­al ti­tles for the team of Greene Jr, Adiose Lewis, Adri­an Sanchez and Jude­thun Hen­ry in the tinymites men's scratch race; the team of Shep­pard, Kylee Young, Shame­ka Hoyte and El­la Marie Young in the ju­ve­nile women's 5 kilo­me­tre (20 laps) scratch race; and Kafele Des­ormeaux, Mau­rice Lopez, Eli­jah James and Liam Lovell who se­cured the ju­ve­nile men's ju­ve­nile men's 7.5 kilo­me­tre (30 laps) scratch race.

Mean­while, the trio of May­ers, Pope and Shep­pard earned their sec­ond ti­tle of the Cham­pi­onships by get­ting the bet­ter of Kermyah Julien, Christa-Marie Julien and Kylee Young for the 750-me­tre team sprint women's crown. They post­ed a time of 1:04.78 sec­onds, rid­ing for Rigtech Son­ics.

In the men's ver­sion of the race, the team sprint ti­tle went to the trio of Eli­jah James, Mau­rice Lopez and Greene Jr, who de­feat­ed the team of La Four, Hen­ry and Josi­ah Prince in a fi­nal race which was con­test­ed over three laps.