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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Team TTO closes out with 4 Pan Am Games medals

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RACHAEL THOMPSON-KING
469 days ago
20231106

A gold, a sil­ver, and two bronze were the pre­cious met­als that Trinidad & Toba­go closed off the San­ti­a­go 2023 Pan Amer­i­can Games in Chile. T&T fin­ished tied in 19th spot with El Sal­vador in the rank­ings.

The four medals were won in three sport­ing dis­ci­plines among the 100-mem­ber con­tin­gent which in­clud­ed 64 ath­letes and 36 of­fi­cials.

Cy­clist Nicholas Paul ped­alled away with two of those medals at the Velo­drome in Pe­nalolen. He re­turned as the de­fend­ing cham­pi­on in the men’s sprint event and sped sway to re­claim T&T’s lone gold medal.

The world record hold­er in the 200-me­tre fly­ing start then copped sil­ver the fol­low­ing day in the men’s keirin event on the cy­cling track.

This af­ter shar­ing the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of car­ry­ing the flag with box­er Tian­na Guy at the San­ti­a­go 2023 fes­tive open­ing cer­e­mo­ny.

“It was a great ho­n­our to be the flag bear­er at the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny, rep­re­sent­ing my coun­try,” Paul said on lead­ing the T&T con­tin­gent at the pa­rade of 41 na­tions of the Amer­i­c­as.

Paul’s medals were the sec­ond and third for T&T, though.

Days be­fore, the 3x3 bas­ket­ball team of twin broth­ers Ah­keel and Ah­keem Boyd, Mori­ba De Fre­itas scored T&T’s first medal, bag­ging the first bronze at the 19th edi­tion of the Games.

The quar­tet made his­to­ry by win­ning the first Pan Am medal in any form of bas­ket­ball for this coun­try, beat­ing South Amer­i­can neigh­bour Venezuela, 21-20 in a thrilling third-place match on the court at the Span­ish Sta­di­um of the Las Con­des.

T&T’s fourth and fi­nal medal came on the track at Chile’s Na­tion­al Sta­di­um cour­tesy of Michelle-Lee Ahye. The 31-year-old sprint­er won the bronze medal in the women’s 100m dash.

At the pre­vi­ous Games, Li­ma 2019 in Pe­ru, T&T won 11 medals—one gold, sev­en sil­ver, and three bronze.

The USA ranked first on the stand­ings with 286 medals—124 gold, 75 sil­ver, and 87 bronze, In sec­ond is Brazil with 205 (66 gold, 73 sil­ver, 66 bronze) fol­lowed by Mex­i­co with 52 gold, 38 sil­ver, and 52 bronze to to­tal 164 medals.


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