Njisane Phillip

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Njisane Phillip Road cycling
Njisane Phillip (2018)
Njisane Phillip (2018)
To person
Date of birth May 29, 1991
nation Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
discipline train
Driver type Short term
doping
2019 unknown
Most important successes
Pan American Games
2019 gold - team sprint
2019 silver - Sprint
Pan American Championships
2012 PanAmericanJersey.png - Sprint
2018, 2019 PanAmericanJersey.png - team sprint
Last updated: March 15, 2020

Njisane Nicholas Phillip (born May 29, 1991 in San Fernando ) is a cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago .

Athletic career

Njisane Phillip comes from a cycling family: his grandfather and father were racing cyclists. When he was nine years old, his family moved to Miami , where he was introduced to competitive cycling through his father. He specialized in the short-term track disciplines sprint , time trial , team sprint and keirin .

Phillip later went back to Trinidad and was awarded the Most Outstanding International Cyclist Award in 2008 after winning silver in the team sprint and bronze in the keirin at the Pan American Junior Games in Ecuador . At the Junior Track World Championships in Moscow in 2009 he finished seventh in the keirin and fifth in the sprint and was also national junior champion in road racing. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games he was fifth in the sprint and tenth in the keirin, and at the Central American and Caribbean Games he won the gold medal in the sprint and the silver medal in the team sprint , together with Christopher Sellier and Azikiwe Kellar . At the Pan American Games in Guadalajara in 2011 , he won the bronze medal in the sprint.

At the first run of the Track Cycling World Cup in Astana in 2011/12 , Phillip finished seventh in the sprint, at the second run in Cali sixth and eighth in the Keirin. At the Pan American Cycling Championships he won the gold medal in the sprint, but fell so badly in the following Keirin race that he had to do without a start at the UCI Track World Championships in Melbourne in 2012 . He was the only cyclist in his country to be nominated for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , finished fourth in the sprint and seventh in the keirin.

Njisane Phillip lived in the United States for most of the year and was trained there by former British track cyclist Jamie Staff , who also looked after the US national sprint team. After Phillip felt insufficiently supported by his association in the preparations for the Olympic Games in London, he publicly announced that he was thinking about switching to the American association.

In April 2013, the three-day Njisane Festival took place in Trinidad , in which around 50 top international track cyclists took part, including the Russian Denis Dmitrijew , the Malaysian Josiah Ng and the Colombian Fabián Puerta .

In 2016 Phillip was nominated to start the sprint for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Shortly before the start of the games, Phillip, who last had his training base in Canada with Erin Hartwell , announced that he would end his career. As a reason he named "betrayal and disrespect by the Trinidad and Tobago Cycling Federation (TTCF) over the past few years" ("betrayal and disrespect by the Trinidad and Tobago Association in recent years"). Most recently, there had been a disagreement between him and the association when the latter had nominated not Phillips' long-time supervisor, but another companion for the games, a decision that the association later withdrew. In the sprint tournament in Rio, Njisane Phillip was eliminated in the hope run of the 1/16 finals and finished 13th.

In November 2016, Philipp started at Six Day in London, regardless of his resignation . In an interview, he stated that he had decided to pursue his career after all. His goals are the 2018 Commonwealth Games , the World Championships and the 2020 Olympic Games. In 2017, together with Kwesi Browne and Nicholas Paul , he finished second in the team sprint at the Pan American Championships; the following year, the three drivers won this competition at the Central American and Caribbean Games .

At the Commonwealth Games 2018 in Australia, Philipp finished sixth in the team sprint together with Paul, Keron Bramble and Browne. In the same constellation, the four riders from Trinidad and Tobago became Pan American champions in front of a home crowd at the National Cycling Center in Couva in 2018 and set a new America record with 42.681 seconds. Together with Browne and Paul he won the team sprint at the Central America and Caribbean Games in 2018 as well as with these two and Bramble at the Pan American Games ; Phillip also won silver in the sprint. A few weeks later Phillip, Paul, Bramble and Browne undercut their own America record from the previous year with 41.938 seconds at the Pan-American Championships.

doping

In December 2019, the team was deprived of the gold medal in the team sprint and Phillip himself was deprived of the silver medal in the sprint of the 2019 Pan American Games because Philipp had tested positive for doping . Because of this decision, the chances fell for the team, the Olympic Games in Tokyo to qualify. Thereupon Browne and Phillip denied no further competitions, and the Canadian national coach Erin Hartwell left the association and moved to China .

Honors

In 2011, Njisane Phillip was named Sports Personality of the Year by the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee . At the Spirit of Sport Awards organized by the Trinidadian Ministry of Sports, Phillip won the 2012 Record Breaking Performance category .

successes

2009
  • Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Junior Champions of Trinidad and Tobago - Road Race
2010
2011
2012
  • PanAmericanJersey.png Pan American Champion - Sprint
2015
  • silver Pan American Championship - Sprint
  • silver Pan American Games - Sprint
  • Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Champion of Trinidad and Tobago - Sprint, Keirin
2017
2018
2019

Web links

Commons : Njisane Phillip  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trinidad Guardian of April 20, 2009: Njisane Phillip wins Grand Prix in Arima ( Memento of March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Toronto2015.org: Athlete Profile Njisane Phillip. Retrieved March 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Trinidad Express of March 13, 2012: Alexander in, Njisane out for 'Worlds'. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Juegos Olímpicos: Njisane Philipp, el invitado sorpresa del sprint masculino on biciciclismo.com v. August 6, 2012 (Spanish)
  5. ↑ Multinational teams for Njisane Festival on newsday.co.tt v. April 11, 2013
  6. ↑ Njisane gets his man. In: guardian.co.tt. July 30, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016 .
  7. ^ Andy Mc Grath: Njisane Phillip, cycling's Soca Warrior. In: rouleur.cc. November 6, 2016, accessed December 12, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Garth Wattley: Best in the World. In: Trinidad Daily Express. September 3, 2018, accessed January 8, 2019 .
  9. ↑ TT cyclists go for gold at Elite Pan Am Cycling Champs. In: newsday.co.tt. September 4, 2019, accessed on September 5, 2019 .
  10. ↑ T&T stripped of PanAm cycling medals amid doping scandal. In: buzz-caribbean.com. December 28, 2019, accessed March 15, 2020 .
  11. ^ Hartwell with China for UCI World Champs. In: newsday.co.tt. February 27, 2020, accessed on March 15, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Trinidad Guardian of September 21, 2012: Olympians deserve every reward. Retrieved March 28, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Nigel Simon: 'Golden boy' Walcott conquers SOSA awards . In: Trinidad Guardian . December 29, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Phillip, Njisane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Phillip, Njisane Nicholas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH San Fernando , Trinidad and Tobago