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T&T Masters bag record 18 medals at World Champs

Trinidad and Tobago ended the 20th World Masters Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with an all-time high medal tally of 18. The total improves on the seven medals earned at the 2011 World Masters meet in Sacramento, California, USA.

On the final day of action, yesterday, T&T claimed three relay medals, and ended the Championships with four gold medals, seven silver and seven bronze.

Leading the way for T&T was double individual bronze medallist Martin Prime, who guided the men’s 50-54 4x100 metres team to silver in 46.10 seconds. The T&T combination of Prime, Lester Herbert, Raymond Smith and Dave Massiah finished behind Great Britain (45.67). The same quartet went on to bag bronze in the 4x400m.

Prime then joined up with his younger teammates in the 35-39 4x100m event. The T&T team, which also included 100m gold medallist Andie Montique, high jump champion Rodney Liverpool and Albert St. Louis, secured bronze in 44.33 seconds, behind Great Britain (42.88) and Venezuela (44.23).

Prime left Brazil with five medals, the most captured by any T&T athlete at the global biennial meet.

Montique and Liverpool, meanwhile, were triple medallists in Porto Alegre. And Montique, Liverpool, Geraldine George-Francis (women’s 40-44 javelin) and Gwendolyn Smith (women’s 45-49 javelin) captured gold for T&T.

The T&T athletes return home tonight.

Yesterday’s results

4x100m
Men
35-39: 1st GBR 42.88, 2nd VEN 44.23, 3rd T&T (Albert St Louis, Martin Prime, Rodney Liverpool, Andie Montique) 44.33
50-54: 1st GBR 45.67, 2nd T&T (Martin Prime, Lester Herbert, Raymond Smith, Dave Massiah) 46.10, 3rd GER 49.43
Women
45-49: T&T dq

4x400m
Men
50-54: 3rd T&T (Martin Prime, Lester Herbert, Raymond Smith, Dave Massiah)

T&T medals

Gold (4)
Andie Montique–men’s 45-49 100m, 11.67 seconds
Geraldine George-Francis
–women’s 40-44 javelin, 41.53m
Gwendolyn Smith–women’s
45-49 javelin, 42.48m
Rodney Liverpool–men’s 35-39 high jump, 1.90m

Silver (7)
Oswald Rogers–men’s 75-79 100m, 14.77 seconds
Jules La Rode–men’s 40-44 5,000m, 15:41.18
Gwendolyn Smith–women’s
45-49 shot put, 12.02m
Monica Tang Wing–women’s
75-79 200m hurdles, 55.40 seconds
Andie Montique–men’s 45-49 200m, 23.40 seconds
Geraldine George-Francis
–women’s shot put, 11.69m
Men’s 50-54 4x100m–Martin Prime, Lester Herbert, Raymond Smith, Dave Massiah, 46.10 seconds

Bronze (7)
Monica Tang Wing–women’s
75-79 100m, 17.71 seconds
Rodney Liverpool–men’s 35-39 long jump, 6.50m
Martin Prime–men’s 50-54 100m, 11.89 seconds
Martin Prime–men’s 50-54 400m, 56.65 seconds
Geraldine George-Francis
–women’s 40-44 discus, 36.80m
Men’s 35-39 4x100m–Albert
St Louis, Martin Prime, Rodney
Liverpool, Andie Montique, 44.33 seconds
Men’s 50-54 4x400m–Martin Prime, Lester Herbert, Raymond Smith, Dave Massiah

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