WAL­TER AL­IBEY

wal­ter.al­ibey@guardian.co.tt

Cy­clist Kwe­si Browne did not qual­i­fy for the match sprint yes­ter­day morn­ing, the T&T quick­ie pro­duced a time of 10.012 in the fly­ing 200 me­tres of the Tis­sot UCI Track World Cham­pi­onships in Saint-Quentin-En-Yve­lines.

Browne need­ed to be among the top 28 rid­ers to seal a place in the round of 16, but he fin­ished +0.788 time slow­er than the fastest rid­er on the day Har­rie Lavrey­sen of the Nether­lands. With that time, Browne sealed the 34th spot out of a field of 45 rid­ers.

Lavrey­sen's 9.224 earned him an im­me­di­ate place in­to the next round as the fastest qual­i­fi­er. The Dutch­man, a two-time Olympic gold medal­ist, hav­ing won the sprint and team sprint event at the 2020 Sum­mer Olympics, was fol­lowed close­ly be­hind by the Aus­tralian pair of Matthew Richard­son and Matthew Glaet­zer, both post­ing times of 9.381 and 9.405 to se­cure their en­try in­to the round of 16.

Browne, on­ly on Fri­day, failed to ad­vance to the sec­ond round of the keirin event, de­spite com­pet­ing a sec­ond time in the repechage.

Browen, who made a name for him­self at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan just could not find the form that saw him win the bronze medal in the keirin at the 2014 Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean Games and al­so at the 2016 Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships.

His coun­try­man Nicholas Paul holds the record for the fastest time in the fly­ing 200 me­tres sprints at 9.100 which was set at the Elite Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in Coach­abam­ba, Bo­livia in 2019. The pre­vi­ous record of 9.347 sec­onds by France's Fran­cois Per­vis had stood since 2013.

How­ev­er, an in­jured col­lar­bone as well as oth­er mi­nor in­juries last week pre­vent­ed Paul from com­pet­ing at the cham­pi­onships.

It was Browne's last ride at the World Cham­pi­onships but it would not be the last chance for T&T at medalling at the event as en­durance rid­er Ak­il Camp­bell is ex­pect­ed to spring in­to ac­tion to­day in the Elim­i­na­tion Race.

Like Browne, Camp­bell strug­gled in his ear­ly race of the event, fin­ish­ing 20th in the Scratch Race on Thurs­day.

Fly­ing 200 me­tres re­sults:

1 Har­rie Lavrey­sen 9.224 Q

2 Matthew Richard­son +0.157 Q

3 Matthew Glaet­zer +0.181 Q

4 Ma­teusz Rudyk +0.232 Q

5 Thomas Cor­nish +0.303 Q

6 Kaiya Ota +0.307 Q

7 Tom De­r­ache +0.319 Q

8 Se­bastien Vigi­er +0.324 Q

9 Hamish Turn­bull +0.368 Q

10 Jack Car­lin +0.377 Q

11 Rayan Helal +0.381 Q

12 Nick Wammes +0.398 Q

13 Ste­fan Bot­tich­er +0.399 Q

14 San­dor Sza­lon­tay +0.407 Q

15 Cris­t­ian David Or­te­ga +0.415

16 Kevin San­ti­a­go Quin­tero +0.419 Q

17 Ko­hei Terasa­ki +0.449 Q

18 Sam Ligtlee +0.456 Q

19 Mar­tin Čech­man +0.457 Q

20 Ti­j­men Van Loon +0.464 Q

21 Jair Tjon En Fa +0.474 Q

22 Ken­to Ya­masa­ki +0.517 Q

23 Max­i­m­il­ian Dorn­bach +0.582 Q

24 Ryan Dodyk +0.593 Q

25 Qi Liu +0.603 Q

26 Rafal Sar­nec­ki +0.612 Q

27 Muham­mad Sahrom +0.616 Q

28 Ale­jan­dron Mar­tinez +0.623 Q

29 Jai Angsutha­saw­it +0.643

30 Sva­jū­nas Jonauskas +0.681

31 Ronal­do Laiton­jam +0.686

32 An­drey Chugay +0.687

33 Sergey Pono­mary­ov +0.717

34 Kwe­si Browne +0.788

35 Jean Spies +0.820