Trinidad and Tobago at the 1976 Summer Olympics
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| At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal | ||||||||||||||
| Competitors | 13 in 3 sports | |||||||||||||
| Medals Rank: 26 |
Gold 1 |
Silver 0 |
Bronze 0 |
Total 1 |
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 British West Indies (1960) |
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Athletes from Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Thirteen competitors, all men, took part in ten events in three sports.[1] This was Trinidad and Tobago's only Olympic gold medal victory ever, until Keshorn Walcott won a gold medal in 2012 in the Javelin throw competition.
Medalists
Gold
- Hasely Crawford — Athletics, Men's 100 metres
Athletics
Main article: Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Men's 800 metres
- Horace Tuitt
- Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)
Men's 4x100 metres Relay
- Anthony Husbands, Chris Brathwaite, Charles Joseph, and Francis Adams
- Heat — 40.08s
- Semi Finals — 39.88s (→ did not advance)
Men's 4x400m Relay
- Mike Solomon, Charles Joseph, Horace Tuitt, and Joseph Coombs
- Heat — 3:03.54
- Final — 3:03.46 (→ 6th place)
Men's Long Jump
- George Swanston
- Qualification — 7.40m (→ did not advance)
Cycling
Main article: Cycling at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Two cyclists represented Trinidad and Tobago in 1976.
- Leslie Rawlins — 23rd place
- Anthony Sellier — 1:11.103 (→ 20th place)
Shooting
Main article: Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics
References
- ↑ "Trinidad and Tobago at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 18 April 2015.