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Birth name
  
Edwin Anthony Roberts

Height
  
1.73 m

Role
  
Olympic athlete


Name
  
Edwin Roberts

College team
  
NCCU Eagles

Weight
  
70 kg

Edwin Roberts

Born
  
12 August 1941
Belmont, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad

Personal best(s)
  
100 y: 09.2 s 1964 100 m: 10.1 s 1969 200 m: 20.34 s 1968 4×400 y: 45.6 s, then WR, 1966

Olympic medals
  
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

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Edwin Roberts


Edwin Anthony Roberts (born 12 August 1941) is a retired Trinidadian runner. He competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics in various sprint events and had his best results in the 200 m, in which he finished third in 1964 and fourth in 1968. He also won a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay in 1964.

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Roberts attended North Carolina College in the United States between 1962 and 1966 where he was a member of the college track team. He was also part of the Trinidadian team that set a world record at 3:02.8 in the 4×440 yd relay at the 1966 Commonwealth Games. He was among world's top ten sprinters from 1964 to 1971, according to the votes of the experts of Track and Field News.

  • In 1969 Roberts was awarded the Trinidad & Tobago Humming Bird Medal Bronze.
  • In 1984, he was inducted into the Alex M. Rivera Athletics Hall of Fame at North Carolina Central University.
  • In 1987, he was inducted into the Trinidad and Tobago Sports Hall of Fame.
  • In 2005, he was inducted into the Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation Hall of Fame.

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    References

    Edwin Roberts Wikipedia
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