- Edwin Roberts
otherpeople4|the Olympic athlete|the U.S. Representative from Nevada|Edwin E. Roberts
Edwin Roberts (born
12 August ,1941 inPort of Spain ) was a Trinidadian athlete who competed mainly in the200 metres .He competed for Trinidad and Tobago in the
1964 Summer Olympics held inTokyo ,Japan in the 200 metres where he . He then teamed up withEdwin Skinner ,Kenneth Bernard andWendell Mottley to win the bronze medal in the4 x 400 m relay .At the next Olympic Games in 1968 he finished fourth in the individual event and sixth in the relay. His last Olympic appearance was in 1972 in Munich, where the relay team finished eighth.
Other medals include a gold medal at the
1966 Central American and Caribbean Games , silver medals at the1962 Central American and Caribbean Games , 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games (100 metres ),1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games ,1970 British Commonwealth Games and1971 Pan American Games and a bronze medal at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (100 yards).Roberts attended
North Carolina College in the United States. In 1969 he was awarded the Trinidad & Tobago Humming Bird Medal Bronze.External links
* [http://www.bestoftrinidad.com/olympics/roberts.html Best of Trinidad]
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