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http://www.socawarriors.net/Track_&_Field.htmBest sporting moment ever in T&T history.
T&T Express.
03-Mar-2002 - HASELY Crawford’s gold medal-winning feat in the 100 metres at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada still remains as the “greatest moment” in Trinidad and Tobago’s sporting history.
Crawford scampering to victory in 10.06 seconds, shown on a huge TV screen, was given top spot in the “Ten Great T&T Sporting Moments”, one of the highlights of Friday night’s WITCO Sports Foundation Awards at the Hilton Trinidad ballroom.
Crawford, a huge sprinter, once described as one of the “greatest of all time”, represented Trinidad and Tobago in four Olympics—Munich in 1972; Montreal 1976; Moscow 1980; and Los Angeles in 1984.
Taking second spot on the “Great Moments” list was Brian Lara for his magnificent 375 Test runs (which destroyed Gary Sobers’ longstanding score of 365 not out) against England in Antigua and his undefeated 501 against Durham in the English County Championship, which established the highest-ever score in first class cricket, both achieved in 1994.
Surprisingly, Ato Boldon’s golden 200-metre victory at the World Track and Field Championships in 1997 in Athens, Greece, was only listed at No.9.
T&T’s two World Boxing Association (WBA) champions, light-heavyweight Leslie “Tiger” Stewart and lightweight Claude Noel, were both ranked in third position.
The top ten were selected by an experienced panel of sports journalists and administrators, chaired by Lystra Lewis and including veteran sports editors Mervyn Wells, Horace Gordon and Eustace Ward, along with Tony Williams, Dave Lamy, Valentino Singh and former T&T football captain Sedley Joseph.
But a member of the selection team said he was surprised the list was announced in order of merit. “I saw it as an ongoing exercise. Not an all-time ranking list as such,” he said.
But Judy Griffith, secretary of the WITCO Sports Foundation Panel, insisted yesterday while “more Great Moments will be named later, Friday night’s top ten was in order of merit and the panel was informed beforehand”.
THE TOP ELEVEN
1. Hasely Crawford—Olympic gold in Montreal 1976
2. Brian Lara—375 and 501 record-breaking scores, 1994
3. Leslie “Tiger” Stewart and Claude Noel—WBA world titles
4. T&T’s 1979 World Netball Championship team
5. Kent Bernard, Lennox Yearwood, Wendell Mottley, Edwin
Roberts—1966 Commonwealth Games 4x400 yards world
record-breaking and gold medal relay team, Kingston, Jamaica
6. Roger Gibbon—bronze medal at World Cycling Championships, Belgium, 1967
7. Rodney Wilkes—Olympic silver medal in weightlifting, London, 1948.
8. T&T vs USA World Cup qualifier—Hasely Crawford Stadium, November 19, 1989.
9. Ato Boldon—200-metre gold medal at 1997 World Championships, Athens, Greece.
10. Mike Agostini—Gold medal at Pan Am Games, Chicago, 1959.
11. George Bovell 111—Won the bronze medal in the 200-IM swimming competition at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Greece. George Bovell also completed the best-ever individual Pan Am Games with a record-breaking swim in the men’s 200 metres individual medley, at the Juan Pablo Duarte Aquatic Centre in the Dominican Republic, August 2003. The 20-year-old swimmer grabbed gold in one minute, 59.49 seconds, a new Games and national record, as well as the fastest time ever by a swimmer from the Commonwealth, beating the 1:59.66 produced by Australian great Ian Thorpe in his silver swim.
