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"What is for you is for you, and tonight was for me."
On the night of September 18, TT javelin king Keshorn Walcott finally completed a decade-long mission to win a medal at the World Championships. His mission was a resounding success as not only did he clinch a medal but he won a historic gold, to become the first TT athlete to be crowned Olympic and World champion.
The Toco-born athlete, 32, has achieved everything on the international stage with a trophy cabinet that many athletes could only dream of. In the last 13 years he has amassed a tremendous haul of silverware including 2012 World Junior Championships gold, 2012 Olympic Games gold, 2016 Olympic bronze, 2014 Commonwealth silver, 2015 Pan American gold and 2014 Continental Cup gold.
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