Colombia, Venezuela and Trididad and Tobago in the fight for the medals
City: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
Date: 2011-10-18
At the Men's singles Speed test, Njisane Phillip From Trinidad and Tobago broke a Pan American record (9 "977 / 1000).
At the eight finals, Phillip exceeded Alejandro Mainat, from Cuba; Ruber Horta, from Mexico defeated Michael Blatchford, from USA; Fabian Puerta, from Colombia, defeated the Argentinian Jonathan Gatto; while in the fourth heat, match between Venezuela's Angel Pulgar and Hersony Canelon, who was crowned winner. Jonathan Marin, from Colombia, dominated the Argentinian Leandro Botasso, and James Watkins, from USA won the match against Flacio Cipriano, from Brazil.
In the playoff to complete the eight riders who moved to the next round, Blatchford left out Gatto and Cipriano. While Pulgar ended Botasso's and Mainat aspirations.
At the fourth finals, the Trinidadian Njisane Phillip beat Blatchford with 10".620/1000 and 10".252/1000.In another confrontation, Pulgar overcame Mexico's cyclist in just two races, with 10".677/1000 and 10".520/1000.
In addition, Colombia's competitors, Puerta and Marin faced each others to represent his country in semifinals, due to an accident Fabian moved automatically to the next round.
The last match was between Hersony Canelon (VEN) and James Watkins (USA). At the beginning, Venezuela won with a time of 10 '.337/1000 and with 10''.500/1000, qualifying to the semifinals.
Tomorrow there will be the semi final in which Canelon, Phillip and Pulgar will face Puerta. The Trinidadian is people's favorite.