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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Jehue steals show at SOSA

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Hur­dler Je­hue Gor­don was named this coun­try's top ath­lete for 2013 at the third an­nu­al Spir­it of Sport Awards (SOSA), staged by the Min­istry of Sports and Sport Com­pa­ny of T&T (SporTT), at Queen's Hall in St Ann's, Port-of-Spain, on Sat­ur­day.Gor­don walked away with the li­on's share of the prizes, cop­ping the Male Ath­lete of the Year, Con­sis­tent Per­former of the Year, Break­through Per­for­mance of the Year and the pres­ti­gious Sport Per­for­mance of the Year ti­tles.Gor­don who end­ed the sea­son as the top ranked ath­lete in his event in the world, won gold for T&T in the 400-me­tre hur­dle at the World Cham­pi­onships in Moscow, Rus­sia, back in Au­gust, be­fore re­peat­ing at the Di­a­mond League in Brus­sels, Bel­gium, a month lat­er.In this the sea­son of giv­ing, the first class mul­ti­ple-award win­ning ath­lete was in re­ceipt a lot of gifts.

Gor­don re­ceived a cheque val­ued at $800,000 on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of T&T, pre­sent­ed by per­ma­nent sec­re­tary Ash­win Creed.Lat­er, Jear­lean John, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor at the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) joined Gor­don on the stage to present him with the keys to his new home �a du­plex in the com­mu­ni­ty of Mara­cas, St Joseph.Then, to the young ath­lete's de­light, his coach Dr Ian Hy­po­lite made the ho­n­our roll when named as Coach of the Year.Ju­nior swim­mer Shan­ntol Ince and mul­ti­ple gold medal win­ner at the 2013 Youth Para Pan Amer­i­can Games held in Buenos Aires, Ar­genti­na, was an­oth­er big win­ner on the night tak­ing home awards for Ath­lete with a Dis­abil­i­ty and Emerg­ing Ath­lete of the Year; and jus­ti­fi­ably so.

The Par­a­lympic ath­lete se­cured gold in 400m freestyle, 100m back­stroke, 100m but­ter­fly and 100m freestyle at the first ju­nior event and be­lieves these vic­to­ries pro­vides her with the im­pe­tus to medal suc­cess­ful­ly at the 2014 Com­mon­wealth Games and the 2015 Pan Am Games.

Each time Ince took the stage it was to thun­der­ous ap­plause. Then came her op­por­tu­ni­ty to de­liv­er plau­dits to oth­er award re­cip­i­ents; this time her par­ents Tra­cy & St. Paul Ince win­ners of the Par­ent of the Year ti­tle.Gym­nast Marisa Dick beat out com­pe­ti­tion in oth­er front-line sport to clinch the Fe­male Ath­lete of the Year.But the biggest up­set of the night came in the pre­sen­ta­tion of Team of the Year award which saw the na­tion­al se­nior men's rug­by squad rise to bet­ter the might of the na­tion­al crick­et and hock­ey teams re­spec­tive­ly. As fate would have it, how­ev­er, that was not where awards for the sport of rug­by end­ed. Kwanieze John, one of the sports tops ath­letes and avid cam­paign­er se­cured the Com­mu­ni­ty Cham­pi­on of the Year to the de­light of her peers.When it came time to recog­nise the role of the me­dia in the de­vel­op­ment of sports, the T&T Guardian's Vin­ode Mam­chan copped the Print Jour­nal­ist of the Year for the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year, while Kent Fuentes of State-owned CN­MG was vot­ed Elec­tron­ic Jour­nal­ist of the Year.

Ex­press pho­to ed­i­tor Robert Tay­lor emerged as the best lens­man.The award for Record-Break­ing Per­for­mance of the Year went to Dy­lan Carter while the Come­back Per­for­mance of the Year prize was award­ed to track ath­lete Romona Mod­este.Vet­er­an sports­woman Mar­jorie John now joins Olympic medal win­ner Rod­ney Wilkes, as well as the late Em­manuel Mc­Don­ald Bai­ley who were in­duct­ed in­to the SOSA Hall of Fame, be­ing a re­cip­i­ent of the Life­time Achieve­ment Award. The feisty 81-year-old sport­ing achiev­er re­ceived a stand­ing ova­tion and went on to chal­lenge Sport Min­is­ter Anil Roberts to a race around the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, with the promise that he would get a head start, to the de­light of the au­di­ence.

Ho­n­our Roll

Male Ath­lete of the Year: Je­hue Gor­don (Ath­let­ics)

Break­through Per­for­mance of the Year: Je­hue Gor­don (Ath­let­ics)

Sport Per­for­mance of the Year: Je­hue Gor­don

Coach of the Year: Dr. Ian Hy­po­lite (Ath­let­ics)

Con­sis­tent Per­former of the Year: Je­hue Gor­don (Ath­let­ics)

Fe­male Ath­lete of the Year: Marisa Dick (Gym­nas­tics)

Com­mu­ni­ty Sport Pro­gramme of the Year: KFC/Comets Youth De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme and Deaf Sports Or­gan­i­sa­tion of T&T

Com­mu­ni­ty Cham­pi­on of the Year: Kwanieze John

Ath­lete with a Dis­abil­i­ty: Shan­ntol Ince (Par­a­lympics)

Emerg­ing Ath­lete of the Year: Shan­ntol Ince (Par­a­lympic Swim­ming)

Man­ag­er of the Year: Dex­ter Voisin (Ath­let­ics)

Tech­ni­cal Team: Ian Sharpe (Ath­let­ics)

Record-Break­ing Per­for­mance: Dy­lan Carter (Swim­ming)

Come­back Per­for­mance of the Year: Romona Mod­este (Ath­let­ics)

Par­ents of the Year: Tra­cy & St. Paul Ince

Jour­nal­ist of the Year (Elec­tron­ic): Kent Fuentes, CN­MG

Jour­nal­ist (Print) : Vin­ode Mam­chan, T&T Guardian

Sport Pic­ture: Robert Tay­lor, Ex­press


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