 | | | Trinidadians are looking for their next Ato Boldon |
Edwin Anthony Roberts won Trinidad & Tobago's first medal in athletics, a bronze in the 200 metres at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. He was also part of the Trini ‘fearsome foursome’ of Wendell Mottley, Ken Bernard, Edwin Roberts and Edwin Skinner, winning a bronze in the 4 x 400 men’s relay. Hasely Crawford won Trinidad and Tobago’s first Olympic gold medal by winning the 100m in the 1976 games in Montreal, Canada. Back in the day – 1948 - Trinidad was also doing well in weightlifting. Rodney Wilkes won the country’s first ever medal in that sport, getting a silver medal in the London Olympics of 1948. Four years later Lennox Kilgour got the bronze at the Helsinki Olympics of 1952. Swimmer George Bovell won a bronze medal at the Athens games of 2004, Trinidad’s first in that sport. | | |
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