Edwin Roberts

Edwin Roberts

Personal information
Birth name	Edwin Anthony Roberts
Born	12 August 1941 Belmont, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad [1]
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)[1]
Sport
College team	NCCU Eagles
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 y: 09.2 s 1964 100 m: 10.1 s 1969 200 m: 20.34 s 1968 4x400 y: 45.6 s, then WR, 1966
Medal record Men's Athletics Competitor for  Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Games Bronze 1964 Tokyo 200 metres Bronze 1964 Tokyo 4x400 metre relay Central American and Caribbean Games Bronze 1962 Kingston 200 metres Silver 1962 Kingston 4x100 metres Silver 1962 Kingston 4x400 metres Gold 1966 San Juan 200 metres Silver 1966 San Juan 100 metres Silver 1966 San Juan 4x100 metres Silver 1966 San Juan 4x400 metres Commonwealth Games Bronze 1966 Kingston 100 yards Silver 1966 Kingston 220 yards Gold 1966 Kingston 4x440 yards Silver 1970 Edinburgh 200 metres Silver 1970 Kingston 4x400 metres Pan American Games Bronze 1971 Cali 200 metres Bronze 1971 Cali 4x400 metres

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

Track Career

He competed for Trinidad and Tobago in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 200 metres, where he won the bronze medal. He then teamed up with Edwin Skinner, Kent Bernard and Wendell Mottley to again win a bronze medal, this time 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:

• gold medals at the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games (200 metres and 4x400 metres relay );
• silver medals at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games (4x100 metres and 4x400 metres relay) ;
• silver medals at the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games (100 metres and 4x100 metres relay );
• silver medals at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (220 yards and 4x400 metres relay;
• silver medals at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games (200 metres and 4x400 metres);
• bronze medal at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games (200 metres);
• bronze medal at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (100 yards);
• bronze medals at the 1971 Pan American Games (200 metres and 4x400 metres);

His 1966 win at the Commonwealth Games in the 4x440 y event was in a world-record time of 3:02.8 .^[2]

Roberts attended North Carolina College in the United States between 1962 and 1996 where he was a successful member of the college track team.

As of 2014, Roberts is a retired physical education teacher and track coach.

Rankings

Roberts was ranked in the top ten sprinters in the world from 1964 to 1971, according to the votes of the experts of Track and Field News.^[3][4]

Awards and Accolades

In 1969 Roberts was awarded the Trinidad & Tobago Humming Bird Medal Bronze.

In 1984, Roberts was inducted into the Alex M. Rivera Athletics Hall of Fame at North Carolina Central University.^[5]

In 1987, Roberts was further inducted into the Trinidad and Tobago Sports Hall of Fame.^[6]

In 2005, Roberts was also inducted into the Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation Hall of Fame.^[7][8]

References

External links

• Sports Reference