Saint Lucia’s Julien Alfred reacts after profitable the ladies’s 100m on the Diamond League, Monaco, Stade Louis II, on July 12, 2024.
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St. Lucia’s dash queen Julien Alfred takes residence two awards, together with the Caribbean Feminine Sports activities Persona of the 12 months, on the inaugural Caribbean Affiliation of Nationwide Olympic Committees (CANOC) Sports activities Awards on Saturday.
Alfred, gained her nation’s first ever medal on the Olympics when she obtained gold within the ladies’s 100 metres and silver within the 200 metres in Paris this 12 months.
The 23-year-old Alfred additionally shared the Caribbean Breakthrough Award with Dominica’s Olympic gold medallist Thea LaFond, which is a recognition for athletes who’ve earned their first medal at a continental or worldwide multi-sport competitors.
In the meantime, Cuba’s five-time Olympic wrestling champion Mijain Lopez Nunez, gained the Caribbean Male Sports activities Persona of the 12 months award.
The Dominican Republic’s ladies’s volleyball crew and males’s soccer crew claimed the Caribbean Crew of the 12 months awards, whereas the Dominican Republic Olympic Committee was additionally named Nationwide Olympic Committee of the 12 months.
Barbados’ Anmar Goodridge-Boyce was awarded the Caribbean Sports activities Media Award and the late Judy Simons of Bermuda, was posthumously honoured with the Caribbean Distinguished Service Award for her dedication to advancing sports activities administration within the area.
