Since gaining independence in 1962, Trinidad and Tobago have produced several world-class athletes and successful teams. These are some of our outstanding sporting ambassadors from yesteryear:
Athletics
• ↓Hasely Crawford: The country’s first Olympic gold medallist, winning the men’s 100m at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
• ↓Men’s 4×100 m Relay (Beijing Olympics, 2008): Upgraded to Olympic gold after Jamaica’s DQ; medals formally presented by the IOC in 2022 (Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender, Richard Thompson; Aaron Armstrong).
• ↓Keshorn Walcott: Javelin gold medallist at the 2012 London Olympics, becoming the second T&T athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. He also secured a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
• ↓Jehue Gordon: 400 metre hurdles World Champion (Moscow 2013).
• ↓Men’s 4×400 m Relay (2017) — World Champions (London): Jarrin Solomon, Jereem Richards, Machel Cedenio, Lalonde Gordon (Quow* heat).
• ↓Jereem Richards: World Indoor 400 metres champion (Birmingham 2018) and Commonwealth 200 m champion (Birmingham 2022).
• ↓Michelle-Lee Ahye: Commonwealth Games 100 metres champion (Gold Coast 2018).
• ↓Ato Boldon: Four-time Olympic medallist (one silver, three bronze) in the 100m and 200m at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics.
• ↓Richard Thompson: Silver medallist in the 100m at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
• ↓Wendell Mottley: Silver, 400 metres, Tokyo Olympics, 1964.
• ↓Edwin Roberts: Bronze, 200 metres, Tokyo Olympics, 1964.
• ↓Men’s 4x100 m Relay: Bronze -Edwin Skinner, Kent Bernard, Wendell Mottley, and Edwin Roberts- Tokyo Olympics, 1964.
• ↓Lennox Kilgour: Bronze, weightlifting, middle heavyweight, 1952 Olympics, Helsinki, Finland.
• ↓Ato Boldon: Won the World Junior 100 and 200 metres titles in 1993 at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics held in Seoul, South Korea. This achievement made him the first athlete to win both titles in the same event.
• ↓Rodney Wilkes: T&T’s first Olympic medallist. Silver medal, weightlifting, featherweight, London, England, 1948. Bronze, featherweight, 1952 Olympics, Helsinki, Finland.
Boxing
• ↓Giselle Salandy: Salandy held eight world titles in seven different weight classes simultaneously. She was undefeated in her professional career before her tragic death in 2009.
• ↓Claude Noel: Won the WBA World Lightweight title in 1981.
• ↓Leslie Stewart: Won the WBA World Light-Heavyweight title in 1987.
• ↓Ria Ramnarine: The first female boxer from Trinidad and Tobago to win a world title in 2005. She held world titles in two different weight classes -WIBA and WIBF. She was inducted into the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame in 2017.
Cricket
• ↓Brian Lara: Lara holds several world records, including the highest individual score in a Test innings (400 not out) and the highest individual score in first-class cricket (501 not out).
• ↓Anisa Mohammed: the first cricketer, male or female, to take 100 wickets in T20 Internationals. She was part of the West Indies team that won the 2016 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.
Cycling
• ↓Nicholas Paul: Held the world record (9.100 secs) in the men’s flying 200m time trial from 2019 until it was broken twice (9.941 secs and 8.857 secs) in August 2025 by Matt Richardson. He has also won medals at the Commonwealth Games and the Pan American Games.
• ↓Roger Gibbon: Was a silver medallist at the 1967 World Championships in Amsterdam. He was a gold medallist in the 1km sprint and a silver medallist in the 1,000m time trial at the 1963 São Paulo Pan American Games. In 1967, at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada, he won gold medals in both the 1km sprint and a silver medal in the 1km time trial.
Football
• ↓Dwight Yorke: A member of Manchester United, historic 1999 “treble-winning” (Premier League, FA Cup, and UEFA Champions League) team. He is the head coach of the national men’s team campaign for qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Canada, Mexico, and the USA.
• ↓The men’s national team qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, becoming the smallest country by population to ever do so at the time.
Hockey
• ↓Silver at 1967 Pan American Games (men). The T&T men’s field hockey team clinched silver in Winnipeg, Canada.
• ↓Participated in the FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup 2018 and 2025.
Netball
• ↓Calypso Girls: Crowned World Netball Champions (1979) with Australia and New Zealand; the only non-AUS/NZ/ENG world crown in history.
Para Athletes
• ↓Akeem Stewart: A Paralympic field athlete who competes in discus, javelin, and shot put. He is a multiple-time Paralympic, World Championship, and Parapan American Games medallist, and has set several world records in his events. Stewart won gold in the javelin throw F44 class and silver in the discus throw in the F44 class at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. He was a silver medallist in the discus throw F64 class at the 2024 Paris Olympics. In 2017, he won gold medals in the javelin throw and shot put in the F44 class. In 2015, he was a bronze medallist in the discus throw F44 class.
• ↓Nyoshia Cain-Claxton: A sprinter who has won medals at the Paralympic Games and World Para Athletics Championships. She won a bronze medal in the women’s 100m T44 class at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. She was a silver medallist in the 100m T44 class at both the 2015 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar, and in 2017 in London, England. In 2019, at the Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru, she won gold in the 100m T64 class and bronze in the 100m T44 class.
• ↓Rachael Marshall: Trinidad and Tobago’s first Paralympian gold medallist. She won gold in the javelin and shot put L5 events, and bronze in the 100m freestyle L6 event, capturing two golds and a bronze in athletics and swimming at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in New York, USA.
Swimming
• ↓George Bovell III: Is T&T’s only Olympic medallist in swimming, winning a bronze medal in the men’s 200m individual medley at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Bovell is also a multiple-time World Championship medallist and has dominated regional competitions.
• ↓Dylan Carter: Has represented T&T with consistent performances. At the World Short Course Championship, he has won silver in the 50m butterfly in Abu Dhabi (2021) and bronze in the 50m freestyle in Melbourne, Australia (2022), as well as bronze in the 50m butterfly in Hangzhou, China (2018). He was a silver medallist in the 50 m butterfly at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. Between 2018 and 2023, he has won 6 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games.
