T&T's 12-mem­ber floor hock­ey del­e­ga­tion fin­ished a suc­cess­ful cam­paign at the 2013 Spe­cial Olympics World Win­ter Games in Ko­rea, yes­ter­day, with a bronze medal haul, af­ter con­clud­ing the sched­ule with a 6-1 loss to Hun­gary in the semi­fi­nal, at the Gangne­ung Sports Cen­tre.

De­spite sev­er­al op­por­tu­ni­ties be­ing cre­at­ed from the counter at­tack, the Spe­cial Olympics T&T (SOTT) team was on­ly able to con­vert one of the chances, through a De­van Ma­hadeo fin­ish. Ma­hadeo end­ed a com­bined ef­fort with the help of Daniel Ram­phal, to get the lone goal against Hun­gary, the same team SOTT lost to (7-0) in the pre­lim­i­nary stage.

T&T al­so suf­fered a loss in the pre­lim­i­nary stage to Ja­maica, which ad­vanced to the fi­nal as with Hun­gary. The ti­tle match was played af­ter mid­night this morn­ing. SOTT, how­ev­er, claimed a big win (7-1) at the ex­pense of the USA.

De­spite the loss­es in the com­pe­ti­tion, coach Clay­ton Williams stat­ed that SOTT was able to achieve Di­vi­sion One sta­tus. He added that the younger play­ers have be­gun to pro­vide a foun­da­tion to build up­on in the fu­ture.

SOTT was pre­sent­ed with the bronze by a spe­cial ath­lete and 'glob­al mes­sen­ger' De­on Namiseb in an awards cer­e­mo­ny short­ly af­ter the match.

The Spe­cial Olympics World Win­ter Games clos­es to­day, and the SOTT Del­e­ga­tion will re­turn home on Fri­day.