JEREEM Richards won his second gold medal in two days at the Commonwealth Games as he anchored the T&T men’s 4x400m relay team to gold on Sunday in Birmingham.
Dwight St Hillaire, Asa Guevara, and Machel Cedenio delivered the baton to 200m champion Richards who overcame the spirited Botswana sprinter Bayapo Ndori in the final straight to claim gold for Trinidad and Tobago.
For Richards, who won the 200m on Saturday night, it was his second golden run in successive days.
Trinidad and Tobago won in three minutes 1.29 seconds to win ahead of Botswana, with Kenya in third place.
Trinidad and Tobago has now won three gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Nicholas Paul cycled to gold in the keirin before taking silver in the sprint and a bronze medal in the kilometer time trial.
Richards took gold in the men’s 200m on Saturday before the men’s 4x100m relay team won silver on Sunday morning.
A third gold medal for the Trinidad and Tobago team marks the first time since 1966 that the country has won three or more gold medals at the Commonwealth Games.
In fact, Trinidad and Tobago won only three gold medals between 1966 and 2018 at the Commonwealth Games.
Ato Boldon took gold in the 1998 Games in Kuala Lumpur before Michelle-Lee AHye won gold in the women’s 100m at Gold Coast 2018.
Richards then took 200m gold at the Gold Coast before successfully defending his title on Saturday in Birmingham.
The 28-year-old sprinter is the only Trinidad and Tobago athlete to successfully defend his title at the Commonwealth Games.
Trinidad and Tobago won three medals at the 2018 Gold Coast Games, with the country’s best performance at the Commonwealth Games coming in 1966.
Trinidad and Tobago won five gold medals, two silver medals, and two bronze medals at the 1966 Games, which were held in Kingston, Jamaica
