International competitions
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Neil de Silva (born 15 November 1969 on Trinidad) is a retired male track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 200 and 400 metres.
His personal best time over 400 m was 45.02 seconds, achieved during the 1996 Olympics. He holds one national record, in 4 x 400 metres relay together with Patrick Delice, Alvin Daniel and Ian Morris, with 3:01.05 minutes achieved in the heats of the 1992 Summer Olympics.
1Disqualified in the semifinals
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Vicente Lenílson de Lima is a Brazilian sprinter specializing in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and the 4×100 metres relay.
Brazil competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. 147 competitors, 126 men and 21 women, took part in 82 events in 17 sports. The country set a record with 8 medals – only surpassed in 1996 with 15, but only one medal was gold.
Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.
Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Five track and field athletes and two cyclists represented Trinidad and Tobago. The team was headed by chef de mission Hasely Crawford, the winner of the gold medal in the 100 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Sixteen competitors, eleven men and five women, took part in fourteen events in five sports.
Ian ("Frinty") Morris is a retired male track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 400 metres. A former soccer player for the Siparia Angels in South Trinidad, he did not take up athletics until the age of 23. He occasionally ran the 200 metres, and even competed in the 800 metres at the 1987 World Indoor Championships. He is now a member of the Siparia Rhythm Section.He is also the Coach of the Siparia Athletics Club.
Trinidad and Tobago at the 1994 Commonwealth Games was abbreviated TRI.
Patrick Delice is a retired athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 200 and 400 metres.
Alvin Daniel is a retired track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 200 and 400 metres.
Renny Quow is a Trinidadian male track and field sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres and has made it to both the Olympic and World Finals in the event, a rare feat for athletes from the Caribbean in the 400m. He competes professionally for Adidas. He was born in Tobago. Quow remains the only quarter miler from Trinidad & Tobago to make it to every major 400m finals.
Jamil J James is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 400 metres. His father, Trevor J James, is a former Olympic sprinter who represented Trinidad and Tobago in the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Carlos Alberto da Silva is a retired Portuguese athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles.
The 12th Pan American Games were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina from March 11 to March 26, 1995.
Jorge Luis Crusellas Álvarez is a retired male sprinter from Cuba. He claimed a gold medal in the Men's 4x400 metres relay at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Crusellas set his personal best in the men's 400 metres (45.65) in 1995.
The 2009 South American Championships in Athletics was the forty sixth edition of the tournament and was held between 19 and 21 June in Lima, Peru.
Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was Trinidad and Tobago's most successful Summer Olympics. It was the nation's largest ever delegation sent to the Olympics, with a total of 30 athletes, 21 men and 9 women, in 6 sports. Trinidad and Tobago's participation in these games marked its sixteenth Olympic appearance as an independent nation, although it had previously competed in four other games as a British colony, and as part of the West Indies Federation. The nation was awarded four Olympic medals based on the efforts by the athletes who competed in the track and field. Javelin thrower Keshorn Walcott became the first Trinidadian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal since the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where Hasely Crawford won for the sprint event. Marc Burns, a four-time Olympic athlete and a relay sprinter who led his team by winning the silver medal in Beijing, was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
Deon Kristofer Lendore was a Trinidad and Tobago sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres. He won a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and won medals at the Pan American Junior Athletics Championships, World Athletics Championships and World Athletics Indoor Championships. Lendore died in a car collision in Texas, United States, on 10 January 2022.
Lalonde Keida Gordon, HBM is a Tobagonian male track and field sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. He won the bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics with a personal best of 44.52 seconds. He is the third fastest 400 m runner from his country after Machel Cedenio and Ian Morris.
Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from August 5 to 21, 2016. This was the nation's seventeenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, although it previously competed in four other editions as a British colony, and as part of the West Indies Federation.
Dwight St. Hillaire is an Olympic sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago.
