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Monday, July 7, 2025

Four former winners among 54 nominees

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Four-time women's award re­cip­i­ent Cleopa­tra Borel is among a quar­tet of for­mer win­ners list in a field of 54 ath­letes (29 men and 25 women) nom­i­nat­ed by their re­spec­tive sport­ing as­so­ci­a­tion for the 2015 First Cit­i­zens Sports Foun­da­tion Sports­man and Sports­woman of the Year awards.

Shot Put­ter Borel has won the award on four pre­vi­ous oc­ca­sions, 2002, 2007, 2010 and 2014 and is joined on the list of nom­i­nees by 2012 Olympic javelin cham­pi­on Keshorn Wal­cott, shoot­er Roger Daniel, and 2004 Olympic bronze medal­list, swim­mer George Bovell III.

The First Cit­i­zens Sports Foun­da­tion, un­der the Dis­tin­guished Pa­tron­age of His Ex­cel­len­cy, Pres­i­dent of the Re­pub­lic of T&T, Dr An­tho­ny Car­mona, will host its an­nu­al sports awards on March 13, at the Queen's Hall, Port of Spain.

The Foun­da­tion's se­lec­tion com­mit­tee, head­ed by Chair­man Dr. Kei­th Clif­ford and aid­ed by sport­ing as­so­ci­a­tions (through the nom­i­na­tions of ath­letes), has worked through an ex­haus­tive and thor­ough process in de­cid­ing on the var­i­ous nom­i­na­tions.

Wal­cott, an Olympic javelin gold medal win­ner at the Lon­don 2012 Games cap­tured the men's top award in 2012, shoot­er Daniel won in 2010 and 2011 while Bovell was the awardee in 2004 and 2014.

In ad­di­tion to the top na­tion's top in­di­vid­ual sport­ing award, the Jef­frey Stollmey­er Award for the best sport­ing ad­min­is­tra­tion and Lystra Lewis Award for the Team of the Year will al­so be pre­sent­ed on the night while the WOW mo­ments which was first in­tro­duced in 2009 will again be among the high­lights.

These mo­ments have been cho­sen by the me­dia as the top per­for­mances of the year.

SPORTS­MAN & SPORTS­WOMAN OF

THE YEAR AWARDS NOM­I­NEES

Sport Ath­lete

Am­a­teur Box­ing Nigel Car­lan Thomas Paul

Au­to­mo­bile Sports Marc Gill/Maria Tara Parat­aps­ingh

Bad­minton Al­is­tair Es­pinoza/Avril Plaza-Mar­celle

Body Build­ing Kel­ton Thomas/Vanes­sa Hill

Box­ing Nigel Car­lan Thomas Paul

Ca­noe/Kayak Satyam Ma­haraj/Keian Hug­gins

Chess Kevin Cu­pid/Adi­ti Soon­dars­ingh

Crick­et Dar­ren Bra­vo/Brit­ney Coop­er

Cy­cling Njisane Nicholas Phillips/Jo­di Goodridge

Foot­ball Ken­wyne Jones/Arin King

Golf Tal­in Ra­jen­dranath/Moni­fa Sealy

Gym­nas­tics Marisa Dick

Hock­ey An­drey Rocke/Alana Lewis

Horse Rac­ing Prayven Badrie

Ju­do Christo­pher George

Karate Ed­ward Ryan Ra­j­moolie/Dr. Nicole Lam­bie

Net­ball Rhon­da John-Davis

Par­a­lympics Akeem Stew­art

Pow­er­lift­ing Adri­an Bar­ry Brown/Sal­isha Rahim

Ral­ly Don­ald Gopaul

Rug­by Ag­boola Sil­ver­thorn/Or­nel­la George

Sail­ing An­drew Lewis/Kel­ly Ann Ar­rindell

Shoot­ing Roger Daniel/Mar­sha Bullen-Jones

Squash Kale Alexan­der Wil­son/Char­lotte Knag­gs

Swim­ming George Bov­el III/Cherelle Thomp­son

Ta­ble Ten­nis Aaron Ju­nior Wil­son/Lin­da Parat­ap-Bood­dhan

Taek­won­do Ed­son Breedy

Tar­get Archery Parasan Rams­mair/Neela Cezair

Ten­nis Vaughn Wil­son/Bre­ana Stampfli

Track & Field Keshorn Wal­cott & Machel Ce­de­nio/Cleopa­tra Borel

Triathlon Ja­son Castel­loe/Jen­na Ross

Vol­ley­ball Fa­bi­en Whit­field/Sinead Jack


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