Monday, March 24 2008

AZIKIWE KELLAR took gold in the flying 200 metres, the lone victory for a Trinidad and Tobago rider in the international races, as the TT Cycling Federation (TTCF) Easter Grand Prix continued at the Arima Velodrome on Saturday night.

Kellar led a TT clean sweep of the medals in the flying 200, with Elisha Greene claiming the silver and Haseem McLean taking bronze.

On Friday night, Greene followed up his success in the keirin with another gold medal, this time in the 500-metre race. Greene crossed the finish line ahead of Colombia’s Leonardo Narvaez, with Trinidad and Tobago’s Winzie Mohammed third and Barbados’ Shane Weekes fourth.

Overall, Greene had a good night on Saturday, the muscular-built pedallist took home another silver in the three-lap dash. Narvaez prevailed in the entertaining contest, followed by Greene and Weekes, who got the better of Aaron Kacala of the United States for third place.

Argentina’s Dario Pagliaricci added one gold medal to the two he achieved on Friday when he captured the six-lap race, as he left Venezuela’s Jose Aguilar and the TT duo of Mohammed and Greene in his wake.

The meet was expected to conclude last night.