Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has congratulated athletes Keshorn Walcott and Jereem Richards on their record-breaking performances on the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, calling their achievements “a supply of immense pleasure and distinction” for the nation.
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Walcott, the 2012 Olympic javelin champion, struck gold with a throw of 88.16 metres, turning into the primary Trinidad and Tobago athlete to win each Olympic and World Championship titles. On the identical day, Richards stormed to a silver medal within the males’s 400 metres, setting a brand new nationwide file of 43.72 seconds and turning into solely the second Trinidad and Tobago athlete to succeed in the World Championship 400m podium.
“Collectively, these excellent athletes produced Trinidad and Tobago’s best-ever World Championship efficiency, proving as soon as once more that greatness can emerge from a small island state when expertise is nurtured and goals pursued,” Persad-Bissessar mentioned in an announcement.
The prime minister introduced that the federal government will formally reward each athletes and reaffirmed her administration’s dedication to strengthening the nation’s sporting infrastructure, from upgrading amenities to offering scholarships and youth packages.
“Our athletes carry greater than medals; they carry our spirit, our resilience, and the picture of our nation earlier than the world,” she mentioned, pledging continued funding in sports activities as a “pillar of nationwide improvement.”
Persad-Bissessar praised the athletes’ perseverance and credited their households, coaches, and help groups, including that their victories will encourage a brand new era of younger Trinidadians and Tobagonians to dream large and intention excessive.
