Trinidad and Tobago’s Nicholas Paul celebrates after competing within the biking observe dash males’s semifinals warmth 1 throughout the Pan American Video games in Lima, Peru,Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019.
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Sprinter Michelle-Lee Ahye and bike owner Nicholas Paul added to their accomplishments the First Residents Sportswoman of the 12 months and Sportsman of the 12 months Awards on the 61st annual perform on the Hyatt Regency Resort, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
It was the 31-year-old Ahye fourth win having beforehand captured the award in 2016, 2017, and 2018, and for the 25-year-old Paul, it was the third such honour as he additionally gained the distinguished award in 2019 and 2021. Together with her win, Ahye now has the second most First Residents Sportswoman of the 12 months wins, one behind Cleopatra Borel who’s the file awards winner with 5 following triumphs in 2002, 2007, 2010, 2014 and 2015. Ahye is now equal to former badminton champion Debra O’Connor (1983, 1986, 1990, and 1993) and swimmer Siobhan Cropper (1994, 1997, 1998, 1999).
Veteran observe athlete Ahye earned a bronze medal within the ladies’s 100-metre sprint on the 2023 Pan Am Video games as she clocked 11.53 seconds to complete behind gold medal winner, Cuba’s Yunisleidy Garcia (11.36) and Jasmine Abrams of Guyana, who clocked 11.52 seconds.
Ahye additionally bought to the 100 metres semifinals on the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, and on native soil profitable the ladies’s 100m title on the NAAA Championships at Hasely Crawford Stadium in Trinidad.
Final yr, Paul battled his approach again from extreme damage with a surprising show on the UCI Nations Cup occasion in Milton, Canada the place he pedalled his strategy to the lads’s Match Dash gold medal and likewise earned the bronze medal within the Keirin bronze.
Then on the Pan Am Video games in Santiago, Chile, Paul gained the gold within the Match Dash and silver within the Keirin earlier than he gained the double on the Pan Am Monitor Championships, reaching victories within the Match Dash and Keirin occasions whereas main the T&T group which additionally included Zion Pulido and Kwesi Browne to a second-place within the Group dash.
On the UCI Monitor World Championship in Glasgow, Scotland, Paul needed to accept the silver medal in Match Dash closing whereas on the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) in San Salvador, Paul claimed the person Dash title beating countryman Browne within the closing whereas within the Group Dash, the duo and Pulido bought bronze. The Sports activities Awards perform honored the excellent achievements of some 100-plus athletes who demonstrated unparalleled ability, dedication, and sportsmanship throughout varied disciplines in 2023.
