TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO.....
- land of the hummingbirds
- land and birthplace of the steelband and calypso
- the birthplace of the limbo
- home of the greatest festival on earth…Trinidad & Tobago carnival
CRICKET FINEST BATSMAN
Brian Lara
Regarded as one of the finest batsman ever. He holds the record for the highest
individual score in
first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire
against Durham at
Edgbaston in 1994, which
is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history. He also
holds the record for the highest
individual score in a test innings after scoring 400 not out
against England at Antigua in 2004.
Remarkably, he is the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple
century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a
senior career. Lara also holds the test record of scoring most number of runs in a single over,
when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003.
FAMOUS OLYMPIC ATHLETES
Hasley Crawford
1976
Montreal Olympic Gold Medal 100m
Richard Thompson
2008 Beijing Olympic Sliver Medal 100m
Richard Thompson, Marc Burns,
Emmuanel Callender, Keston Bledman
2008 Beijing Olympic Sliver Medal Men’s 4 x 100 Relay
Ato Boldon
2000 Australia Olympic Sliver Medal 100m,
Bronze Medal 200m
1996 Atlanta Olympic Bronze Medal 100m & 200m
Edwin Roberts, Wendell Mottley, Edwin Skinner, Kenneth Bernard
1964 Toyko Olympic Bronze Medal 4 x 400 m Relay
Wendell Mottley
1964 Tokyo Olympic Sliver Medal 400m
Edwin Roberts
1964 Tokyo Olympic Bronze Medal 200m
George Bowell
2004 Athens Olympic Bronze Medal,
Men 200m Individual Medley Swimming
Rodney Wilkes
1948 London Olympics,
Sliver Medal Men’s featherweight Weightlifting,
1952 Finland Olympic Bronze Medal Men’s featherweight Weightlifting
Lennox Kilgour
1952 Finland Olympic Bronze Medal,
Men’s 90kg class Weightlifting
FAMOUS OLYMPIC HONARABLE MENTIONS ATHLETES
Ian Morris
1992 Spain Olypmic – 400m,
4th place
Michael Agostini
He was T&T’s first formal Olympic double sprint finalist in Melbourne at
the 1956 Summer Olympics,
where he placed sixth in the 100 and fourth in the 200 metres event
Maxwell Chessman
1988 Seoul Olympic,
Cycling Men’s Sprint 1,000m 8th place
Samuel Gene
Cycling Men’s Sprint
1,000m. Represented his country at four consecutive
Summer Olympics,
starting
in 1984 – 1996
HONARABLE MENTIONS
Peter Minshall
Finest Carnival Artist/Mas Maker
Creator of the Famous Tan Tan & Saga Boy. He helped
design
the opening awards
ceremonies for the 1987 Pan American
Games, the 1992 Barcelona Olympics,
the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the 1994 Football World Cup, and the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter
Olympics
Sir Vidiahar S. Naipaul
Writer – Nobel Prize Literature, 2001
Jean Pierre
1979 World Netball Champion Competition.
This extraordinary woman has earned her place in
history as being one of the most successful Caribbean women in the field of Netball.
Eric Williams
First Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago (1956 – 1981)
Darrem Charles
Professional Bodybuilder
Giselle Salandy (January 25, 1987 – January 4, 2009), also known as Jizelle Salandy or
Jizelle Joseph, was an unbeaten world-class female boxer from Trinidad and Tobago. She is
ranked as the # 1 female light middleweight boxer all-time by the Boxrec.
MISS UNIVERSE AND MISS WORLD
Penny Commisiong, Miss Universe, 1977 ( First Black Miss Universe )
Wendy Fitzwilliams, Miss Universe, 1998
Giselle Laronde, Miss World, 1986
Gabrielle Walcot, 2nd Runner-up - Miss World, 2008
Margot Rita Bourgeous, 3rd Runner-up -
Miss Universe, 1997
Valene Maharaj, 4th Runner-up -
Miss World, 2007
Danielle Jones, 5th Runner-up -
Miss Universe, 2004
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO SOCA WARRIORS
Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the 2006 FIFA World
Cup Finals in Germany, its first-ever
qualification for the tournament. During their qualifying campaign, they sat at the bottom of the
table in the final round of qualifying with one point from three games. However, after the arrival
of Leo Beenhakker as team coach and the recalling of veteran players Dwight Yorke and
Russell Latapy, Trinidad and Tobago reversed its fortunes and placed fourth in the group.
They qualified
via a playoff against Bahrain, recovering from a 1-1 draw at home to win 1-0
away from home in Manama to book a place in the finals. In Germany, Trinidad and Tobago
was grouped with England, Sweden and Paraguay in Group B. They drew their first game 0-0
against Sweden despite going down to ten men early in the second half. They lost both their
remaining games against England and Paraguay by a 2-0 margin. They
became the smallest
country to qualify for the FIFA World Cup in
2006, succeeding Haiti for the title.