Trinidad and Tobago captured four medals at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico—two silver and two bronze—to finish 21st on the medal table.
Four years earlier, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, T&T also secured 21st spot. The 2011 showing, however, was an improvement on 2007. In Rio, Team T&T had earned three bronze medals and a solitary silver.
Cleopatra Borel was the lone repeat medallist in Guadalajara, the 32-year-old athlete seizing silver in the women's shot put to add to the bronze she had bagged in the same event in Rio.
Shooter Roger Daniel was the first T&T athlete to earn a medal in Guadalajara. He snapped up silver in the men's 10 metres air pistol event.
Njisane Phillip sent out a warning to his rivals, breaking the Pan American Games record in the flying 200 metres with a 9.977 seconds scorcher. The 20-year-old T&T cyclist went on to capture bronze in the men's sprint.
And Emmanuel Callender became only the third T&T sprinter to earn precious metal in a Pan American Games 100m dash when he picked up bronze in the men's century, joining Mike Agostini and Hasely Crawford in the elite club.
Eighteen-year-old Keshorn Walcott was not among the medals, but his performance in the men's javelin was one of the highpoints for T&T in Guadalajara. Walcott hurled the spear 75.77 metres to finish seventh in a field of 15. The throw is a new national junior (under-20) record.
By Kwame Laurence
Source: www.trinidadexpress.com