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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Silver, bronze for Paul at Champions League

by

Walter Alibey
236 days ago
20241130
FILE - T&T's cyclist Nicholas Paul.

FILE - T&T's cyclist Nicholas Paul.

Cy­clist Nicholas Paul was on the podi­um again in the UCI Cham­pi­ons League in Apel­doorn, Nether­lands, on Fri­day.

Paul paired with home­town favourite Har­rie Lavrey­sen for the fi­nal of the Match Sprint but set­tled for the sec­ond po­si­tion and the sil­ver medal with a time of 11.244.

Lavrey­sen, an Olympic gold medal­list proved to be too fast for the T&T rid­er, beat­ing him in a dash to the fin­ish line in a time of 10.651 sec­onds.

Ear­li­er, Paul got the bet­ter of Matthew Richard­son of Great Britain in the semi­fi­nal of the sprint, post­ing a time of 10.488 for his berth in the fi­nal. Lavrey­sen in his jour­ney to the ti­tle race dis­posed of his coun­try­man Jef­frey Hoog­land with a time of 10.143 that was sig­nif­i­cant­ly faster than his com­pa­tri­ot's 10.211.

Lavrey­sen though was sur­prised in the men's keirin by Colom­bia's Chris­t­ian Or­te­ga step­ping up for the top spot in the fi­nal. Paul re­bound­ed from his fifth-place fin­ish in the same event in the first round at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yve­lines in Paris, France last week­end, and had a much-im­proved per­for­mance at third.

He trailed the even­tu­al win­ner Christo­pher Or­te­ga, who stormed ahead of the six-man field, for the gold medal while Lavrey­sen came in be­hind him for the sil­ver medal.


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