Trinidad and Tobago Cycling Federation (TTCF) president Rowena Williams has praised the country\u2019s young cyclists after strong showings at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games in Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay, and the UCI Junior Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese were excellent performances, records being broken… it all came from hard work, focus and determination,\u201d Williams said. \u201cWe want to congratulate the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
She highlighted the emergence of sprinter Makaira Wallace, who secured multiple medals at the Pan Ams. \u201cMakaira has been knocking on the sprint door for the females…she\u2019s a very focused individual. Her aim is to prepare herself for 2028 and she\u2019s going on that strength and we continue to support her.\u201d<\/p>\n
T&T cyclists earned five bronze medals in Paraguay, led by Wallace\u2019s double podium. She finished third in the women\u2019s sprint– defeating Argentina\u2019s Valentina M\u00e9ndez– and added another bronze in the women\u2019s keirin (12.116s).<\/p>\n
Wallace also joined Kyra Williams and Phoebe Sandy to claim bronze in the women\u2019s team sprint (50.145s).<\/p>\n
On the men\u2019s side, Danell James rode to bronze in the keirin (10.877s) and teamed up with Ryan D\u2019Abreau and Jelani Nedd for bronze in the men\u2019s team sprint (46.216s).<\/p>\n
James was also fifth in the individual sprint, while D\u2019Abreau narrowly missed another medal when fourth in the men\u2019s keirin. Sandy placed fifth in the women\u2019s keirin, underlining T&T\u2019s depth in sprint events.<\/p>\n
Though Colombia and Argentina dominated the gold medals, the margins were narrow. James\u2019 keirin time was just 0.448s off gold, while Wallace\u2019s sprinting consistently kept her within striking distance of South America\u2019s best.<\/p>\n
In the Netherlands, T&T juniors faced the world\u2019s strongest fields. Kyrah Williams set a new personal best of 11.750s in the flying 200m sprint qualifier, ranking 19th. She reached the 1\/16 final before bowing out to Australia\u2019s Olivia Wright.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s team sprint trio of Judah Nevison, Javon Ramroop and Jelani Nedd clocked 47.071s in qualifying, placing 11th overall. Mechanical issues affected their run, but coaches believed a sub-47 was possible.<\/p>\n
In the keirin, Ramroop and Nevison were eliminated in the first round, with only heat winners advancing. Although there were no medals in Apeldoorn, the campaign produced personal bests and valuable exposure to the highest level.<\/p>\n
For Williams, these results underline the progress of T&T\u2019s development system. \u201cHer [Wallace\u2019s] aim is to prepare herself for 2028 and she\u2019s going on that strength and we continue to support her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams added that the federation remains committed to strengthening junior and women\u2019s cycling to ensure sustained success.<\/p>\n
With five Pan Am bronzes and encouraging performances at Worlds, Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s juniors are steadily closing the gap with the continent\u2019s and world\u2019s best\u2014a foundation the TTCF hopes will carry them to greater success on the road to LA 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trinidad and Tobago Cycling Federation (TTCF) president Rowena Williams has praised the country\u2019s young cyclists after strong showings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82,3275],"class_list":["post-118301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}