Twen­ty-three-year-old Navar­do Wal­lace-Gill will cre­ate his­to­ry on Sat­ur­day when he be­comes the first per­son to rep­re­sent Trinidad and To­ba­go at the North Amer­i­can Armwrestling Fed­er­a­tion Cham­pi­onships, tak­ing place in Ot­tawa, Cana­da, which be­gan Fri­day and ends sun­day.

Wal­lace-Gill, who is the pres­i­dent and the founder of T&T's on­ly of­fi­cial armwrestling club, Tri­ni Arm War­riors, and the founder of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Armwrestling Fed­er­a­tion, com­petes in the light heavy­weight di­vi­sion in both left and right arm com­pe­ti­tions this week­end.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia Sport be­fore his de­par­ture on Wednes­day, Wal­lace-Gill said, "It's an event that has coun­tries from all over North Amer­i­ca, like Mex­i­co, Venezuela, Cana­da, Do­mini­ca, and An­tigua as well. For the first time ever, Trinidad will be there. That event is a qual­i­fi­er to go to the World Armwrestling Cham­pi­onships, which is nor­mal­ly held in Eu­rope."

Al­though it has ex­ist­ed for decades in Trinidad and To­ba­go, this coun­try has been slow to or­gan­ise un­der a struc­tured for­mat be­fore Wal­lace-Gill's at­tempts. How­ev­er, he says that once those ef­forts be­gan in a more con­cert­ed way, the strides made have been im­pact­ful.

"We have close ties with An­tigua," he ex­plained.

"An­tigua has been in the arm wrestling scene for about six years now, and we held a joint com­pe­ti­tion with them called Clash in the Caribbean last year in An­tigua. The North Amer­i­can Fed­er­a­tion saw that, and they reached out to me, and they in­vit­ed me to come and com­pete at the Cham­pi­onships."

De­spite look­ing for­ward to his de­but, Wal­lace-Gill says he in­tends to put his best 'arm' for­ward with the in­ten­tion of win­ning his re­spec­tive com­pe­ti­tions.