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T&T Masters bag record 18 medals at World ChampsTrinidad Express :: 28.10.2013Trinidad 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 results4x100m 4x400m T&T medalsGold (4) Silver (7) Bronze (7) |
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