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Deon Lendore funeral set for March 3

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T&T 400 metres runner Deon Lendore, who dies in an accident on February 10.

T&T 400 metres runner Deon Lendore, who dies in an accident on February 10.

T&T's quar­ter-mil­er De­on Lendore will be laid to rest on Thurs­day.

His fam­i­ly, friends, the lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al track and field fra­ter­ni­ty and this coun­try will fi­nal­ly get to bid farewell to the star ath­lete who died in a car ac­ci­dent on the night of Feb­ru­ary 10 in Texas, USA at the age of 29.

The fu­ner­al ser­vice will take place at the San­ta Rosa RC Church in Ari­ma at 2 pm thence to the San­ta Rosa ceme­tery for bur­ial ac­cord­ing to the fam­i­ly spokesper­son, Ash­ton Ford.

"The church will ac­cept 140 per­sons in­side. Oth­ers will be catered for out­side un­der tents and there will be a big screen. The ser­vice can al­so be viewed on­line," said Ford on Thurs­day.

He added that Lendore's sis­ter Leah John­son will give the eu­lo­gy and ex­pect­ed to at­tend is his Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty track and field coach Pat Hen­ry, and 4x400m team­mates Jereem Richards, Dwight St Hillaire, Machel Ce­de­nio and close friend Grena­di­an Olympian Lyn­don Vic­tor, who al­so at­tend­ed Texas A&M.

The body of the late na­tion­al ath­lete ar­rived last Thurs­day

"The fam­i­ly would like to send out thank you to Amery Brown, Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs, for the ef­forts and the work he put in to get De­on home. The fam­i­ly en­coun­tered a lot of pa­per­work and red tape so they want to thank Min­is­ter Brown for his as­sis­tance."

Ac­cord­ing to Ford, Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and D'Abadie/O'Meara MP, Hous­ing Min­is­ter Pene­lope Beck­les, MP for Ari­ma are ex­pect­ed to at­tend and Min­is­ter of Sports and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Sham­fa Cud­joe has al­so re­ceived an in­vi­ta­tion.

He added that sev­er­al Mt Pleas­ant res­i­dents are ex­pect­ed to at­tend in­clud­ing the Steven King and Ser­ron Wat­t­ley fam­i­lies and al­so mem­bers of the Abi­lene Wild­cats track and field club.

Lendore, a na­tive of Ari­ma, thrived on the track in his short­ened ca­reer. He was a mem­ber of the lo­cal club, Abi­lene Wild­cats, and a for­mer stu­dent of Queen’s Roy­al Col­lege be­fore earn­ing a schol­ar­ship to at­tend Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty, com­pet­ed at three con­sec­u­tive Olympic Games in 2012 in Lon­don, Eng­land, 2016 in Rio de Janiero, Brazil and ear­li­er this year at the virus-de­layed Tokyo 2020 in Japan. The high­light of his ca­reer was an­chor­ing the na­tion­al 4x400m re­lay team to a bronze medal at the Lon­don 2012 Games.

In 2016, at the World In­door Cham­pi­onships in Port­land, USA, he al­so claimed two bronze in the 400m and 4x400m re­lay and re­peat­ed with an­oth­er bronze in the in­di­vid­ual event, two years lat­er at the same event in Birm­ing­ham, Eng­land (2018).

As a ju­nior, he copped three sil­ver medals at the Pan Am Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships and a sil­ver at the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games.

Lendore, who leaves his moth­er Crispina Ed­mund, sis­ter Leah John­son and broth­er Jo­van Lendore to mourn, al­so en­joyed a flour­ish­ing ca­reer with Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty in the NCAA, win­ning the fa­mous Bow­er­man award in 2014.

Lendore served as a vol­un­teer as­sis­tant coach for the past two sea­sons while train­ing pro­fes­sion­al­ly un­der con­tract with Puma.

De­on Lendore’s ca­reer achieve­ments

2019 - Bronze (4x400m) - Pan Amer­i­can Games, Li­ma, Pe­ru

2018 - Bronze (400m) - World In­door Cham­pi­onships, Birm­ing­ham, Eng­land

2016 - Bronze (400m) - World In­door Cham­pi­onships, Port­land, USA

2016 - Bronze (4x400m) - World In­door Cham­pi­onships, Port­land, USA

2015 - Sil­ver (4x400m) - World Cham­pi­onships, Bei­jing, Chi­na

2012 - Bronze (4x400m) - Olympics, Lon­don, Eng­land

2011 - Gold (4x400m) Carif­ta Games, Mon­tego Bay, Ja­maica; 2 Sil­ver (400m and 4X400m) Pan Amer­i­can Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships in Mi­ra­mar, USA; Sil­ver (4x400m) CAC Cham­pi­onships, Mayaguez, Puer­to Ri­co

2010 - Sil­ver 400m; Bronze 4x400, Carif­ta Games, George Town, Cay­man Is­lands; Bronze 400m and Gold 4x400m CAC Ju­niors in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic

2009 - Sil­ver (4x400m) in Pan Amer­i­can Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships, Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Port-of-Spain

2008 - Bronze (4x400m) Carif­ta Games, Bas­seterre, St Lu­cia


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