Julien Alfred of Group Saint Lucia celebrates profitable the gold medal in the course of the Ladies’s 100m Ultimate on day eight of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on Aug. 03, 2024 in Paris, France.
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West Indies head coach Daren Julius Garvey Sammy and athletes Julien Alfred and Levern Donaline Spencer have been offered with St. Lucia’s second-highest award, the St. Lucia Cross, as a part of the nation’s Independence Day honors.
Sammy, 41, was awarded for his distinguished service within the fields of sports activities (cricket) and youth growth, whereas 23-year-old Alfred and 40-year-old Spencer have been awarded for his or her distinguished service within the fields of sports activities (observe and area and excessive bounce, respectively).
Sammy is the present all-format head coach of the West Indies males’s staff and is the one captain who gained the T20 World Cup on two events, in 2012 and 2016.
He was additionally a member of the West Indies staff that gained the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy and, most lately, guided the St Lucia Kings to their first-ever Caribbean Premier League title.
In 2017, Sammy was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his or her contribution to sports activities and for his half in bringing again worldwide cricket to Pakistan; he acquired the very best civilian medal of Pakistan, Nishan-e-Pakistan, on March 23, 2020.
He was additionally awarded honorary Pakistani citizenship by the President of Pakistan, Arif Alvi.
In a short social media put up, Sammy stated he was “humbled” to obtain the award.
Then again, Alfred created historical past by profitable St. Lucia’s first-ever Olympic medals on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
She gained gold within the ladies’s 100 meters and silver within the 200 meters in final yr’s Olympics and was additionally the 2024 World Indoor 60m champion,
In September 2024, St Lucia’s Parliament handed a Invoice marking Sept. 27 as Julien Alfred Day.
In the meantime, the now-retired Spencer is regarded because the nation’s best-ever excessive jumper, a four-time Olympian who competed in eight World Championships.
Spencer was additionally a gold medallist on the Widespread-wealth Video games and Pan-American Video games.
