Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

151 MACDONALD BAILEY (1921-2013) H e attended Queen’s Royal College where he showed his early abilities as an athlete. In 1939 he represented T&T at the British Games but by 1944 he had joined the Royal Air Force in England. It was our loss in 1946 when he was selected to team England at the British Games having made his mark there during his service in the air force. There is a collection of his material at the West Indiana and Special Collections Division at UWI. In 1977 he was awarded the Chaconia Medal Gold. ATO J. BOLDON (1973- ) A to Boldon attended Newtown Boys’ RC School, Fatima College (1985-1988), Jamaica High School in Queens, New York (1988- 90), Piedmont Hills High School, California (1990-92), San Jose City College, California (1992-93) and UCLA, California, USA (1993-96). Throughout his star studded athletic career he has always represented T&T to the fullest, even as a politician, before moving into the world of broadcasting with the major networks CBS and NBC in the USA. As a young teenager playing football in the USA, he was discovered as a potential track athlete. From there he went on to represent T&T at 18 years of age at the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992. It was at the World Junior Championships in Seoul, South Korea, in the same year, as well as at the CAC Junior Championships when he won gold in both the 100 metres and the 200 metres. Olympic glory for T&T would come in the form of two bronze medals in the 1996 100 and 200 metre races in Atlanta, and one silver and one bronze in the same races respectively in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. Added to these he captured the 200 metre gold and 100 metre silver medals at the Goodwill Games in 1998 in New York, the 100 metre gold at the Commonwealth Games