Edwin Roberts

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Men’s Athletics
Olympic medal record
Bronze	1964 Tokyo	200 metres
Bronze	1964 Tokyo	4x400 metre relay

This article is about the Olympic athlete. For the U.S. Representative from Nevada, see Edwin E. Roberts.

Edwin Roberts (born 12 August 1941 in Port of Spain) was a Trinidadian athlete who competed mainly in the 200 metres.

He competed for Trinidad and Tobago in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 200 metres where he . He then teamed up with Edwin Skinner, Kenneth Bernard and Wendell Mottley to win the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 m relay.

At the next Olympic Games in 1968 he finished fourth in the individual event and sixth in the relay. His last Olympic appearance was in 1972 in Munich, where the relay team finished eighth.

Other medals include a gold medal at the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games, silver medals at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games, 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games (100 metres), 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 1970 British Commonwealth Games and 1971 Pan American Games and a bronze medal at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (100 yards).

Roberts attended North Carolina College in the United States. In 1969 he was awarded the Trinidad & Tobago Humming Bird Medal Bronze.