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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Badminton’s Labastide dies

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Sports Desk
1153 days ago
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Our region and nation mourns the passing of Badminton coach and national official Wendell Johanne Labastide. Your contribution to the sport and to the development of our youth is recognised and appreciated ... May your selfless soul RIP and your loved ones, including the countless players you have mentored, be comforted.

Our region and nation mourns the passing of Badminton coach and national official Wendell Johanne Labastide. Your contribution to the sport and to the development of our youth is recognised and appreciated ... May your selfless soul RIP and your loved ones, including the countless players you have mentored, be comforted.

For­mer T&T Bad­minton As­so­ci­a­tion and Caribbean Bad­minton As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent and Tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor, Wen­dell Labastide has passed away.

Ac­cord­ing to his close friend Der­win Re­nales, the 61-year-old Labastide, who was the pres­i­dent of Shut­tle Force Bad­minton Club, com­plained of feel­ing un­well and warm on Wednes­day and went in­to his van at his To­co Road, San­gre Grande home to re­lax a bit where he was even­tu­al­ly found slumped over.

Re­nales, in re­flect­ing on the life of his close friend Labastde—who was al­so a mem­ber of the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (T&TOC)—not­ed that Labastide was al­ways will­ing to as­sist the play­ers in any way pos­si­ble.

“He was in­volved in the sport for close to 40 years and I have worked with him side by side at nu­mer­ous tour­na­ments and his pass­ing is no doubt a big loss to our club as well the en­tire bad­minton fra­ter­ni­ty,” stat­ed Re­nales.


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