Edwin Roberts

Edwin Roberts ( Edwin Anthony Roberts, born August 12, 1941 in Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad ) is a former track and field athlete and Olympian.

A first impression in the world of athletics, he left in 1961 Guaracara Park when he Milka Singh suggested that won a year earlier a 4th place finish at the Olympic Games in Rome. His international debut he celebrated in 1962 at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Kingston, where he won silver in the 100 - meter dash and the 4 x 100 - meter relay and the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 -meter Season. In the same year he also took part in the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, but was able to win a medal. Later he joined an athletics scholarship to North Carolina Central University and was part of the national team from 1964 to 1972 at.

In the history of Trinidad and Tobago, he went through his bronze medal he won at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo in the 200 - meter dash as the first medal winner for his country in a single discipline. He also won the team bronze medal in the 4 x 400 - meter relay.

In the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1966 in Kingston, he won bronze over 100 yard, 220 Yard Silver and gold in the 4 x 440 yards relay. He was at the Olympic Games in Mexico City Fourth of over 200 m in 1968 and came up with the team in the 4 x 400 - meter relay team to sixth place. In the British Commonwealth Games in 1970 in Edinburgh each silver followed about 200 m and the 4 x 400 - meter relay.

Roberts was the second Trinidadian, who participated in three consecutive Olympics. After the Games in Munich in 1972, where he reached the quarterfinals of the 200m, finishing in eighth place in the 4 x 400 - meter relay, he ended his sports career.