PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Sprinters Jereem Richards and Leah Bertrand have been topped the Senior Male and Feminine Athletes of 2024, respectively, when the Nationwide Administration of Athletic Associations (NAAATT) hosted its annual awards ceremony on the Radisson Resort, Port of Spain, on Saturday night time.
It was Richards and Bertrand’s second main award after the T&T Olympic Committee (TTOC), which additionally named them Senior Sportsman and Sportswoman throughout its awards final month.
Richards, 30, took house the award for his spectacular efficiency finally yr’s Paris Olympics. Within the males’s 400m ultimate, he clocked 43.78 seconds, lacking out on bronze by four-hundredths of a second and setting a brand new nationwide file.
In the meantime, the 22-year-old Bertrand, a scholar of Ohio State College, ran a wind-assisted 11.05 within the 100 meters to complete seventh on the NCAA Division 1 Championship ultimate in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
She additionally made her Olympic debut in Paris, reaching the semifinals within the ladies’s 100 meters.
Tafari Waldron, the 2024 Below-20 boys’ 5000m champion and nationwide record-holder within the occasion (14:57.95), and Jenae De Gannes, the Below-20 ladies’ CARIFTA lengthy leap champion in addition to Austin Sealy Award winner, have been bestowed with the Junior Male and Junior Feminine Athlete of the Yr awards, respectively.
