T&T's cycling team of Njisane Phillip, Keron Bramble and Nicholas Paul were fourth in the Team Sprint at the UCI Cycling World Cup in New Zealand on Friday night.
Riding for the bronze medal, the T&T men were beaten by the trio from the host nation New Zealand, comprising Ethan Mitchell, Sam Webster and Edward Dawkins.
Both teams advanced from the qualifiers and the first round to be among the top four teams for gold, silver and bronze.
The gold medal race was scheduled to be contested between Japan (Kazuki Amagai, Yudai Nitta and Tomohiro Fukaya) and Poland (Maciej Bielecki, Mateusz Rudyk and Patryk Rajkowski).
Earlier in the qualifiers, a strategic ploy by national coach Erin Hartwell to use Keron Bramble as the first-leg rider, paid tremendous dividends for the men in the red, white and black, as they finished fifth overall to earn valuable points towards their Olympic 2020 campaign.
The T&T trio produced a time of 43.852 seconds after Bramble, the slowest of the three riders, returned a time of 17.754 seconds, while performances from Phillip and world record breaker Paul kept the red, white and black on par with their powerful international competitors.
Later in the first round, the T&T team improved on their performance with a ride of 43.369 seconds to hold off Russia and advance to the final.
Meanwhile, T&T's Kwesi Brown was also scheduled to spring into the keirin event last night.
Afterwards, Hartwell said he was really happy with the performance of his riders, as he never thought they would have been going so fast at this time.
"Three hard rides in a two-hour time frame, I've never seen before at a World Cup, really put us and a lot of teams under pressure to produce in a short period. We are really happy with the record of 43.3, really didn't think we would be going that fast right now, as we thought we'd be going 43.5, maybe 43.6, so it was a step up for the guys," Hartwell said.
He added "We're starting a fire where we need too and we're looking to making that challenge in Brisbane next week. Fourth is a really good result for us, really our best."