jun.21.2006
Kwesi Diaz won the inaugural wheelchair race at the Sportsflex Olympic day relay run at the King George V Park yesterday.
The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee(TTOC) annually celebrates the anniversary of the founding of the International Olympic Committee(IOC)which was first established on the 23rd June 1894.
The Trinidad leg of the event on the third Saturday in June starts the now traditional TTOC Olympic week programme which culminates with the Tobago Leg of the Olympic day Relay run on the fourth Saturday in June.
Previously held at the Brian Lara Promenade The TTOC moved the Trinidad leg to King George Park this year to facilitate the introduction of the cycle races for Kids ,over forty cyclist and the wheelchair race.
While The cycle races were canceled as there was only one entrant .The wheelchair race attracted five entrants.
Thirty-Five teams participated In the relay run.Lead Pack won the men's open division.While T&T Road Runners Club took the women's open division.
T&T Badminton Association took home the first prize in the TTOC affiliate men's division .In the women's division the T&T Hockey Board team took the honours
Penal Junior secondary took the honours in the secondary schools (MALE)category with Manzanilla High School romping home in the girls equivalent.
In the mixed category where the total age of the team must be one hundred and eighty years.T&T Road Runners Club emerged victorious.
Eleven of the TTOC's thirty-three affiliates participated in the day's activities.
