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What about Track & Field / Re: sports celebration research - Olympics and other internationall competitions

« on: July 19, 2021, 05:04:52 PM »

Some other smaller Caribbean nations have had full welcome home events for gold medal winners at the Pan Am Games and the Commonwealth Games.   eg. Shaune and Brett Fraser  (British Virgin Islands), Levern Spencer (St. Lucia).  In the Castro era, Cuba would usually honor all their Pan Am Games winners at one big event as well.   

Of course, I realize that other nations don't get too excited about these competitions.  I am just trying to get a good list of events that occurred so I can research them further.   

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What about Track & Field / Re: sports celebration research - Olympics and other international competitions

« on: July 12, 2021, 08:26:21 PM »

I know that welcome home celebration / motorcade was held on 8-13-2012 for Keshorn Walcott's gold medal.  There were also some events for Walcott's return in Sept. 2016 from the Rio Olympics. 

I believe there was a big event for Hasely Crawford in 1976.  Would someone know the date of that?

I know there were celebrations for Bolden but have no information on when they occurred.

Did any of the others get motorcades or big receptions? 

I'd appreciate any info folks might have to offer.  I'll be throwing similar questions on other boards related to those sports.

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What about Track & Field / sports celebration research - Olympics and other internationall competitions

« on: July 12, 2021, 08:14:21 PM »

Hi,

I am new on this board and hope you all can help me with a few Trinidad sports history questions.  I'm interested in sports celebrations / parades etc.  Just to jog everyone's memory here's a list of Olympic and World Championship medalists, as well as Commonwealth and Pan Am Games gold medalists.

Olympic medalists:

Rodney Wilkes  (1948),
Rodney Wilkes (1952)
Lennox Kilgour (1952)
Wendell Mottley (1964)
Edwin Roberts (1964)
Men's 4 X 100 m relay (1964)
Hasely Crawford (1976)
Ato Boldon (1996 - 2)
Ato Boldon (2000 - 2)
George Bovell (2004)
Men's 4 X 100 m relay (2008)
Richard Thompson (2008)
Keshorn Walcott (2012)
Men's 4 X 100 m relay (2012)
Lalonde Gordon (2012)
Men's 4 X 400 m relay (2012)
Keshorn Walcott (2016)

World Champion medalists
Ato Boldon (1995)
Ato Boldon (1997)
Ato Boldon (2001)
Men's 4 X 100 m relay (2001)
Darrel Brown (2003)
George Bovell (2003)
Men's 4 X 100 m relay (2005)
Renny Quow (2009)
Men's 4 X 100 m relay (2009)
Josanne Lucas (2009)
Kelly Ann Baptiste (2011)
Jehue Gordon (2013)
Men's 4 X 400 m relay (2015)
Women's 4 X 100 m relay (2015)
Jereem Richards (2017)
Men's 4 X 400 m relay (2017)

Pan Am Games gold medals
Rodney Wilkes (1951)
Roger Gibbon (1963)
Roger Gibbon (1967 - 2)
1971   (I can't figure out who won the gold medal here)
Gene Samuel (1991)
George Bovell (2003 - 2)
Men's 4 X 400 relay (2015)
Cleopatra Borel (2015)
Keshorn Walcott (2015)
Men's Cycling Team Sprint (2019)    Both 2019 cycling gold medals were eventually stripped due to failed drug tests.
Nicholas Paul (2019)   Both 2019 cycling gold medals were eventually stripped due to failed drug tests.

Commonwealth Games gold medals
Rodney Wilkes (1954)
Mike Agostini (1954)
Wendell Mottley (1966)
Men's 4 X 440 relay (1966)
Roger Gibbon (1966 - 2)
Hugo Gittens (1966)
Ato Boldon (1998)
Jereem Richards (2018)
Michelle-Lee Ahye (2018)