PORT OF SPAIN, CANA:
TRINIDAD and Tobago's football team captain Russell Latapy has been voted Sports Personality of the Year.
The 32-year-old midfielder who plays for Hibernian in the Scottish Premier League prevented a clean sweep of the 2000 awards by performers in track and field.
World sprint star Ato Boldon won the Sportsman-of-the-year award and young sprinter Fana Ashby captured the women's award.
Boldon, a double medallist (bronze and silver) at the Sydney Olympics took two awards, Sportsman of the Year and the Alexander B Chapman prize.
The first was for his outstanding performances during the year, while the Chapman was for his promotion of the Olympic ideals and Olympism.
Ashby was chosen Sportswoman of the year after her 100-metre bronze medal effort at the World Junior championship in Chile while another outstanding CARIFTA medallist Marc Burns copped the sports and education award for his exploits on and off the track.
Veteran sports administrator Lystra Lewis won a special international Olympic Award for Women in Sport while the late Lawrence McDowell received a recognition award.
McDowell was well known in athletics circles and was at the time of his death late last year, manager of the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
In his address Douglas Camacho, president of the TTOC said that he hoped Government would recognise the role sports can play in national development.
