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Trinidad and Tobago at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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Competitors
  
13 in 3 sports

Trinidad and Tobago at the 1976 Summer Olympics

IOC code
  
TTO (TRI used at these Games)

NOC
  
Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee

Medals Ranked 26th
  
Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 0 0 1

Athletes from Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Thirteen competitors, all men, took part in ten events in three sports. This was Trinidad and Tobago's only Olympic gold medal victory ever, until Keshorn Walcott won a gold medal in 2012 in the Javelin throw competition.

Contents

Gold

  • Hasely Crawford — Athletics, Men's 100 metres

    • Athletics

    Men's 800 metres

  • Horace Tuitt
  • Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)

    • Men's 4x100 metres Relay

  • Anthony Husbands, Chris Brathwaite, Charles Joseph, and Francis Adams
  • Heat — 40.08s
  • Semi Finals — 39.88s (→ did not advance)

    • Men's 4 × 400 m Relay

  • Mike Solomon, Charles Joseph, Horace Tuitt, and Joseph Coombs
  • Heat — 3:03.54
  • Final — 3:03.46 (→ 6th place)

    • Men's Long Jump

  • George Swanston
  • Qualification — 7.40m (→ did not advance)

    • Cycling

    Two cyclists represented Trinidad and Tobago in 1976.

    Sprint
  • Leslie Rawlins — 23rd place
    • 1000m time trial
  • Anthony Sellier — 1:11.103 (→ 20th place)

    • References

    Trinidad and Tobago at the 1976 Summer Olympics Wikipedia
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