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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Paul, Campbell reign as T&T 2019 sports stars

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Rachael Thompson-King
1780 days ago
20200412

Mem­o­rable sea­sons by Nicholas Paul and Te­niel Camp­bell saw the na­tion­al cy­cling pair ho­n­oured as the top T&T ath­letes when the First Cit­i­zens Sports Foun­da­tion held its an­nu­al Sports Awards and Hall of Fame In­duc­tion cer­e­mo­ny which for the first time was not done in front of a live au­di­ence be­cause of the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic which is cur­rent­ly af­fect­ing all coun­tries the world over. T&T is cur­rent­ly on a na­tion­al lock­down and the gov­ern­ment has re­strict­ed gath­er­ing to no more than five per­sons in any one place at time.

The pre­sen­ta­tion of the 57th edi­tion of the an­nu­al func­tion, which was due to take place at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) Port-of-Spain on March 21, had to be re-imag­ined due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and in­stead was broad­cast­ed on tele­vi­sion.

View­ers were not dis­ap­point­ed as the Foun­da­tion re­liv­ed video footage of the na­tion­al ath­letes' out­stand­ing per­for­mances over the past year and mes­sages from sev­er­al of them via video record­ings which had start­ed in No­vem­ber ac­cord­ing to Dr Ter­rance Ali, chair­man of the First Cit­i­zens Sports Foun­da­tion.

Paul and Camp­bell, who com­plet­ed a clean sweep of the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) “Sports­man of the Year” and “Sports­woman of Year” awards for their dis­ci­pline in De­cem­ber, have al­ready qual­i­fied for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Paul’s suc­cess­ful sea­son in­clud­ed set­ting a new World record in the Men’s Fly­ing 200 me­tres at the Elite Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­on­ships in Cochabam­ba, Bo­livia. Then, he low­ered the record to 9.100 sec­onds, tak­ing 0.247 off the pre­vi­ous record set in 2013 by France's Fran­cois Per­vis. He al­so broke his own Pan Amer­i­can record of 9.378 sec­onds which he set in Mex­i­co in 2018, and al­so took gold when he de­feat­ed Suri­namese Jair Tjon En Far in two rides in the fi­nal a day be­fore with a blis­ter­ing 9.583 time.

Camp­bell be­came T&T’s first-ever women's cy­clist to qual­i­fy for the Olympics. She starred for T&T at the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Ju­ly, where she copped four medals, in­clu­ding a gold in the women's road race and three bronze in the Scratch, Om­ni­um and in­di­vid­ual pur­suit, re­spec­tive­ly.

The 21-year-old, signed on for UCI Women’s Pro Cy­cling Team Val­car Cy­clane, of Italy, for the 2020 com­pet­i­tive sea­son, al­so be­came the first dou­ble Caribbean Women’s Road Cham­pi­on, CAC gold medal­list and the first cy­clist to re­ceive the Hum­ming­bird Medal (Sil­ver) for her achieve­ments in the sport.

Favourite sprint­er Shani­qua Bas­combe re­peat­ed as the youth "Sports­woman of the Year" and fel­low sprint­er Devin Au­gus­tine won the boys' ver­sion of the award on a night where the Sports Foun­da­tion cel­e­brat­ed some 100 of the na­tion’s top ath­letes and in­duct­ed ten more sport­ing icons in­to the Sports Hall of Fame.

In oth­er awards hand­ed out, the T&T Chess As­so­ci­a­tion (TTCA) was named the win­ner of the Jef­frey Stollmey­er Award, large cat­e­go­ry, which is giv­en to a na­tion­al gov­ern­ing sports body that has out­stand­ing­ly show­cased ini­tia­tives, and made sig­nif­i­cant im­prove­ments in its ad­min­is­tra­tion and to­wards the de­vel­op­ment of its ath­letes.

For the small­er cat­e­go­ry, the award went to the T&T Tar­get Archery Fed­er­a­tion.

The Lystra Lewis award is for any in­di­vid­ual, team or group whose per­for­mance has im­pact­ed sig­nif­i­cant­ly on the na­tion­al sports land­scape. The win­ner was the Men's 4x400m re­lay team of Jereem Richards, De­on Lendore, Asa Gue­vara and Machel Ce­de­nio who run­ning in that or­der won gold at the IAAF World Re­lays in Japan.

HO­N­OUR ROLL

Sports­man of The Year: Nicholas Paul (Cy­cling)

Sports­woman of The Year: Teneil Camp­bell (Cy­cling)

Youth Sport­woman of the Year: Shani­qua Bas­combe (Ath­let­ics)

Youth Sports­man of The Year: Devin Au­gus­tine (Ath­let­ics)

Top 10 Ath­letes of the Year:

Se­nior

Nicholas Paul (Cy­cling), Teneil Camp­bell (Cy­cling), Dy­lan Carter (Swim­ming), Akeem Stew­art (Par­a­lympic), Jereem Richards (Ath­let­ics), Kel­ly-Ann Bap­tiste (Ath­let­ics), Michael Alexan­der (Box­ing), , Saman­tha Wal­lace (Net­ball), An­drew Lewis (Sail­ing), Fe­l­i­ca Al­isha Chow (Ca­noe & Row­ing).

Ju­nior

Devin Au­gus­tine (Ath­let­ics), Alan-Sa­far Ra­moutar (Chess), Nyrell Ho­sein (Am­a­teur Box­ing), En­rique De Co­mar­mond (Cy­cling), Troy Llanos (Triathlon), Nathan Hinds (Swim­ming), Shani­qua Bas­combe (Ath­let­ics), Shemi­lah James (Chess), Gabriel­la Don­ahue (Swim­ming), She­mari­ah Ali (Tar­get Archery).

Jef­frey Stollmey­er Award (for the top or­gan­i­sa­tions):

Small Cat­e­go­ry Win­ner - T&T Tar­get Archery Fed­er­a­tion

Large Cat­e­go­ry Win­ner - T&T Chess As­so­ci­a­tion

Lystra Lewis award for top in­di­vid­ual, team or group: Men's 4x400m re­lay team (Jereem Richards, De­on Lendore, Asa Gue­vara, Machel Ce­de­nio).

Hall of Fame 2019 class: Rev. Dr Iva Gloudon (ad­min­is­tra­tion), Lester Os­ouna (coach), David Far­rell (posthu­mous - ad­min­stra­tive ta­ble ten­nis, bas­ket­ball), Bertille St Clair (foot­ball coach), Dex­ter St Louis (posthu­mous - ta­ble ten­nis), George Bovell III (swim­ming), Ralph Go­sein (posthu­mous - crick­et um­pire), Cheryl Ann Sankar (taek­won­do), Claude Noel (box­ing), Dave Lamy (posthu­mous - sports jour­nal­ist).


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