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Friday, February 21, 2025

Junior cyclist Alexander #1 in world rankings

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Sev­en­teen-year-old Team Bea­con cy­clist Quin­cy Alexan­der cre­at­ed his­to­ry for Trinidad and To­ba­go by top­ping the UCI's (Union Cy­cliste In­ter­na­tionale - In­ter­na­tion­al Cy­cling Union) list for the 2011/2012 Ju­nior Men's World Rank­ing for Track Cy­cling. The teenag­er is ranked as num­ber one in­di­vid­ual in Sprint with 170 points, sig­nif­i­cant­ly ahead Javed Mounter (Bar­ba­dos) and Mex­i­can Is­mael Ver­dugo both of whom have (130 pts) and (110 pts), re­spec­tive­ly. With the points earned, Alexan­der al­so placed T&T as the num­ber one na­tion in the UCI's Sprint Ju­niors World Rank­ing. The cel­e­bra­tion for Alexan­der did not stop there, since he al­so made it in the top rank­ings for the Kilo­me­tre Time Tri­al, in which he ranked third and the Keirin, in which he grabbed the fifth place world rank­ing.

Mean­while, Alexan­der con­tin­ued to ex­cel at the 2011 Na­tion­al Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships for Ju­niors which start­ed off at the Ari­ma Velo­drome last Thurs­day. He de­fend­ed his 2010 ti­tles as Na­tion­al Sprint and Kilo­me­tre time tri­al cham­pi­on. Alexan­der, whose cy­cling en­deav­ours have led him to ma­jor suc­cess­es at both na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al lev­els, spi­raled once again to­wards vic­to­ri­ous ends at the event. He con­tin­ued to grab the at­ten­tion of many sup­port­ers and cy­cling fa­nat­ics, not on­ly be­cause of his hard work and in­cred­i­ble skills on the bike but al­so be­cause of the un­be­liev­able young age at which he has been ac­com­plish­ing such tri­umph.

At this na­tion­al event, Alexan­der suc­cess­ful­ly re­tained his 2010 ti­tles when he broke his own records, with a time of 11.17 sec­onds in the Fly­ing 200 and 1.09 min­utes in the Kilo­me­tre time tri­al (beat­ing his times last year of 11.33 secs and 1.10 mins, re­spec­tive­ly). These achieve­ments will stand as an as­sess­ment in Alexan­der's qual­i­fi­ca­tion to en­ter the 2011 Ju­nior World Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships, which is sched­uled for Au­gust in Rus­sia. The young­ster will be gear­ing up for that in­ter­na­tion­al event, in which he has al­ready gained some ex­pe­ri­ence as a par­tic­i­pant in the 2010 Cham­pi­onships, where he placed 16th out of 58 con­tes­tants in the Sprints and 11th in the Kilo­me­tre event, with a time of 1.05, just a two sec­onds away from the first place win­ner, who bagged a win with 1.03 mins.


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