Ja­di­an Neaves earned Trinidad and To­ba­go its first medal at the Elite Caribbean Road Cham­pi­onships in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Sat­ur­day (Oc­to­ber 10).

​Neaves, one of this coun­try’s ris­ing tal­ents, fin­ished sec­ond in the Un­der-23 di­vi­sion of the Men’s In­di­vid­ual Time Tri­al af­ter de­liv­er­ing a time of 45 min­utes, 49.875 sec­onds at a speed of 45.558 km/h over the 34.8-kilo­me­tre course.

​The gold medal in the Un­der-23 di­vi­sion went to Samuel Lu­idgy Horn of Guade­loupe, who pow­ered his way to the fin­ish line in 44 min­utes, 51.370 sec­onds at a speed of 46.549 km/h. Jaylen Briceno of Be­lize cap­tured the bronze medal in 46 min­utes, 40.889 sec­onds.

​Neaves fin­ished 48th out of 68 rid­ers in the Men’s U-23 time tri­al at the 2026 UCI Road Cy­cling World Cham­pi­onships in Mon­tréal, Cana­da, last month. How­ev­er, yes­ter­day’s field com­prised 24 rid­ers, in­clud­ing Neaves’ com­pa­tri­ot Tariq Woods, who stormed home in 10th spot over­all.

​Neaves’ per­for­mance al­so earned him a sixth-place fin­ish in the over­all stand­ings. Bermu­da’s Luke Kaden Hop­kins and Nicholas Nar­raway took the over­all gold and sil­ver medals, re­spec­tive­ly, post­ing times of 42:03.239 and 43:01.017. Christo­pher Fontan Morales of Puer­to Ri­co round­ed out the over­all podi­um in 43:01.956.

​Af­ter the race, na­tion­al coach Shel­don Ramjit ex­pressed sat­is­fac­tion with his team’s per­for­mance. “They per­formed well. I think the rid­ers would have come in with some re­al­ly good legs. They were ready men­tal­ly and phys­i­cal­ly. Neaves would have medalled in the un­der-23 di­vi­sion, so we’re bring­ing back the first medal,” Ramjit said.

Man­ag­er Sh­eryl Lea­cock was equal­ly pleased and an­tic­i­pates more podi­um fin­ish­es in to­day’s road race. “My thoughts are that they did ex­treme­ly well. They were well pre­pared for the race. I was sat­is­fied with their times al­so, be­cause as you see, it seems there was a big im­prove­ment for Woods and Ja­di­an. I know it’s on­ly be­cause of the ex­tra train­ing that he had,” said Lea­cock.

​T&T will field a full squad in Sun­day’s (Oc­to­ber 11) road race, fea­tur­ing Liam Trepte, Neaves, Woods, and Ak­il Camp­bell. Lea­cock not­ed that more medals are ex­pect­ed.