Nicholas Paul made it two gold medals from as many fi­nals and three over­all for T&T when he edged out host cy­clist Kevin Quin­tero in the men’s Keirin fi­nal at the In­ter­na­tion­al Cy­cling Union (UCI) Tis­sot Track Cy­cling Na­tion Cup on Sat­ur­day night.

The win­ner of the one Kilo­me­tre Time Tri­al at the same Al­cides Ni­eto Pati­no Velo­drome in Cali, Colom­bia on Fri­day night, the 22-year-old Paul used a burst of speed and sta­mi­na over the fi­nal 20 me­tres to hold off the fast clos­ing Quin­tero for the gold medal in the penul­ti­mate event of the night in 10.452 sec­onds.

An­oth­er Colom­bian San­ti­a­go Ramirez took the bronze medal.

Cana­da’s Hugo Bar­rette, his team-mate Ryan Dodyk and Poland’s Daniel Rochi­na fin­ished fourth, fifth and sixth re­spec­tive­ly.

Ear­li­er on Sat­ur­day morn­ing in the heats, Paul qual­i­fied from heat one of the First Round of the Keirin heats to the semi­fi­nals while coun­try­man Keron Bram­ble missed out on be­ing among the top two au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fiers in heat three by one spot.

In heat one, Paul sped to vic­to­ry in 10.105 sec­onds, the fastest time of all com­peti­tors in the heat, and was joined as an au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­er by ri­val, Colom­bia’s Kevin Quin­tero from heat one.

How­ev­er, in heat three, Bram­ble, who al­so made his Olympic de­but in Tokyo crossed the line in third spot be­hind Poland’s Pa­tryk Ra­jkows­ki who won in 10.403, and In­dia's Es­ow Es­ow.

Bram­ble then had a chance to ad­vance from heat three of four of the repechage round one when he came up against Czech Re­pub­lic's Robin Wag­n­er, Ecuador’s Cris­t­ian Gutier­rez and Mada­gas­car's Rid­wan Sahrom.

But once again, Bram­ble failed to se­cure his pas­sage to the next phase af­ter he again placed be­hind the lone qual­i­fi­er Wag­n­er (10.726) and Sahrom.

And in the 12-man semi­fi­nals, Paul again showed his class ear­ly on by ce­ment­ing his spot in the gold medal ride lat­er on Sat­ur­day night when he raced home in 10.502 sec­onds in heat one ahead of fel­low qual­i­fiers, Rochi­na and Dodyk.

The oth­er fin­ish­ers in the heat were French duo, Rayan Helal and Se­bastien Vigi­er, while Es­ow of In­dia did not fin­ish.

And in heat two, Bar­rette sound­ed his warn­ing for the fi­nal with a win­ning time of 10.417, ahead of Colom­bians Ramirez and Quin­tero.

The trio Wag­n­er, Ra­jows­ki and Ukraine’s Bo­hdan Danylchuk were the oth­er fin­ish­ers in heat two.

Paul won his first gold medal in the Time Tri­al, Paul af­ter he was the on­ly rid­er to break the one minute mark with a time of 59.994 sec­onds.

Paul moved joint-top of the World Cup stand­ings with Ger­many’s Fe­lix Gross, who won the first event in Hong Kong.

Ra­jkows­ki earned Poland its fourth sil­ver in Cali with a time of one minute, 00.240sec, while Ramírez was third in 1:00.464.

On Fri­day, the 22-year-old Paul who made his Olympic de­but in Tokyo pro­duced the fastest time of the Time Tri­al pre­lim­i­nar­ies.

Paul, who holds the world record for the fly­ing 200m event in a time of 9.100 sec­onds in 2019, was on Fri­day in omi­nous form as he re­turned home in a time of 59.378 sec­onds at an av­er­age speed of 60.629.

Ra­jkows­ki was the sec­ond-fastest rid­er on the day in 59.960 and an av­er­age speed of 60.040.

Home­town hero Ramirez pro­duced the third-fastest time in 1:00.577, much to the de­light of the fans, but he re­quired more pow­er for the fi­nal.

The oth­er fin­ish­ers in the fi­nal were Dodyk in fourth fol­lowed by Do­minik Top­in­ka of Czech Re­pub­lic, In­dia’s Ronal­do Laiton­jam, Cana­di­an Ethan Ogrod­niczuk, and Mex­i­co's Juan Car­los Ruiz.

Paul's time made him the fastest T&T rid­er at the Na­tions Cup and is on­ly bet­tered by his own ride of 59.241 which was a na­tion­al record.

He crossed the 250m mark at 18.394 sec­onds and was quick to the half-way mark in a time of 31.162.

Al­so, on Fri­day night, Ak­il Camp­bell dou­bled this coun­try’s gold medal tal­ly when he won the Elim­i­na­tion Race.

Camp­bell, the broth­er of top na­tion­al women’s cy­clist Te­niel Camp­bell who com­pet­ed at the Tokyo Olympics stole the spot­light in the night’s fi­nal event af­ter he over­came a fall to take the gold medal on his com­pe­ti­tion de­but.

With six rid­ers left in Elim­i­na­tion Race from the field of 14 which be­gan, Camp­bell who was in the fifth po­si­tion at that time came in­to con­tact with a cy­clist in front of him and fell to the track.

How­ev­er, the T&T cy­clist got back on his bike, got back in the race and man­aged to pow­er his way to the even­tu­al gold medal ahead of Bel­gium’s Ken­ny de Ketele while Chile’s Cris­t­ian Ar­ria­ga­da Pizarro took third.

Camp­bell’s win ties with the win­ners from the two pre­vi­ous legs of the UCI Track Cy­cling Na­tions Cup in Italy’s Car­loal­ber­to Gior­dani and Japan’s Eiya Hashimo­to at the top of the over­all stand­ings.

On Sun­day, Paul faces the starter in the Match Sprint, along­side Quin­cy Alexan­der.

By com­pet­ing at this leg of the Na­tions Cup, T&T has guar­an­teed it­self a spot at the UCI Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onship which ped­als off in France from Oc­to­ber 20 - 24.