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Hasely Joachim Crawford TC, OLY (born 16 August 1950) is a former track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago. In 1976, he became his country's first Olympic champion. [1] Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, was renamed in his honour in 2001.
Aug 23, 2022 · In 1976 Hasely Joachim Crawford etched his name indelibly into the annals of Trinidad and Tobago track and field history when he won his country’s first Olympic Games gold medal. The lanky sprinter won the 100m title from lane one in 10.06 seconds ahead of Jamaica’s Donald Quarrie, who was closing fast.
Hasely Crawford made his international début at the 1970 Commonwealth Games, where he won a bronze medal in the 100 metres. In 1972, he surprisingly qualified for the 100 m final at the München Olympics, but pulled his hamstring after 20 metres and did not finish.
No hero in Trinidad and Tobago had ever been accorded greater adulation than Hasely Crawford, the man who won the country’s first Olympic gold medal. In tribute, Crawford received the most unique laurel of all when the country sang, jumped and danced to five calypsoes composed in his honour.
Aug 22, 2022 · Hasely Crawford’s blaze to Olympic gold and glory on July 24, 1976 was honoured in what was declared to be Trinidad and Tobago’s first act of independent decision-making that did not...
Hasely Crawford made his international début at the 1970 Commonwealth Games, where he won a bronze medal in the 100 metres. In 1972, he surprisingly qualified for the 100 m final at the München Olympics, but pulled his hamstring after 20 metres and did not finish.
When Trinidad and Tobago’s Hasely Crawford burst out of his blocks in 100m final at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, he was full of youthful optimism, focus and hope. But within a matter of strides his dream lay in ruins; his hamstring torn as the USSR’s Valeriy Borzov burst clear to win gold.
