Clinton Grant

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Clinton Grant Road cycling
To person
Date of birth November 27, 1971
date of death March 29, 2014
nation Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
discipline Track cycling
Most important successes
Central America and Caribbean Games
1998: silver - Team sprint (with Stephen Alfred and Michael Phillips )
1994: bronze - Sprint

Clinton Grant (born November 27, 1971 - March 29, 2014 in Port of Spain ) was a track cyclist and cycling trainer from Trinidad and Tobago .

Grant came from a cycling family and started cycling himself in 1987. He was multiple national champions of Trinidad and Tobago and a member of the national team. At the Central America and Caribbean Games he won bronze in the sprint in 1994 and silver in the team sprint in 1998 together with Stephen Alfred and Michael Phillips . In 1994, 1998 and 2002 he started at the Commonwealth Games ; In 1994 he finished fifth in the sprint.

After retiring from active cycling in the early 2000s, Grant worked as a club coach and assistant to the national coach. In 2013 he looked after the national team at the Pan-American Junior Track Championships in Aguascalientes . That same year he was named Trainer of the Year by the Trinidad and Tobago Cycling Federation . His main job was for an insurance company.

On March 29, 2014, Grant was hit by a car while training on the street with triathlete Rosanna Abraham. A little later he died in the General Hospital of Port of Spain. Rosanna Abraham was also injured in the accident and had to undergo emergency surgery. The country's sports minister at the time, Anil Roberts , stated that there had been at least six incidents in the three weeks prior to this accident in Trinidad in which motorists had endangered cyclists, and urged drivers to be more considerate because the cyclist, the one you encounter while training on the street could be an upcoming Olympic medalist or a national hero or just a "Trinbagonian brother". In response to Grant's death, 150 cyclists founded Share The Road T&T in June 2014 . It calls for measures for the safety of cyclists such as cycle paths and bicycle-friendly legislation, but above all it wants to promote a change in the awareness of motorists.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reshma Ragoonath / Sean Nero: T & T-free two sportsmen to road accidents. Guardian Media, March 30, 2014, accessed March 31, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Mark Fraser: Shock and anger: Cycling fraternity plans protest rides over Clinton Grant death . In: Trinidad Express . March 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ Cycling fraternity plunged into mourning on the passing of Clinton Granton ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Cyclists want a safe zone on road. Trinidad and Tobago Guardian online June 9, 2014, accessed June 9, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Grant, Clinton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Track cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1971
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2014
Place of death Port of Spain