Sports Min­is­ter Anil Roberts has de­scribed Keshorn Wal­cott's gold medal per­for­mance in the men's javelin fi­nals at the 14th IAAF World Ju­nior Track and Field Cham­pi­onships in Barcelona, Spain, yes­ter­day, as a re­mark­able achieve­ment.

"Fan­tas­tic, es­pe­cial­ly com­ing from a rur­al com­mu­ni­ty, like To­co. He now joins Ato Boldon, Dar­rel Brown and Je­hue Gor­don, (Ren­ny Quow and Rhon­da Watkins), who have won gold at the meet," said Min­is­ter Roberts. Wal­cott took the gold with a dis­tance of 78.64 me­tres. Roberts added that the win will pre­pare Wal­cott for his de­but at Lon­don Olympics Games, lat­er this month. "He is go­ing to Lon­don as a ju­nior. We are not ex­pect­ing him to win gold there but he will do well to get in­to the fi­nals and im­prove his per­son­al best which will au­gur well for the 2016 Olympics (in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) where we an­tic­i­pate him get­ting a medal."

The D'Abadie/OMeara MP added that Wal­cott's fam­i­ly and all of To­co should be proud. Roberts was speak­ing af­ter yes­ter­day's cab­i­net meet­ing at Co­co Reef Ho­tel in Crown Point, To­ba­go and re­vealed that the "en­tire cab­i­net cel­e­brat­ed vic­to­ry". Dur­ing the post-Cab­i­net press brief­ing, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so con­grat­u­lat­ed Wal­cott on his achieve­ment.