Distance runner Kelvin Johnson passes at 46

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s dis­tance run­ning fra­ter­ni­ty was plunged in­to mourn­ing fol­low­ing the un­time­ly pass­ing of top Guyanese dis­tance run­ner Kelvin John­son at the age of 46.

​A fa­mil­iar and for­mi­da­ble force on the re­gion­al cir­cuit for over two decades, John­son left an in­deli­ble mark on T&T’s road rac­ing scene af­ter mak­ing T&T his sec­ond home, leav­ing be­hind a lega­cy of com­pet­i­tive ex­cel­lence, re­silience, and un­yield­ing sports­man­ship.

​First in­tro­duced to the lo­cal run­ning com­mu­ni­ty through vet­er­an Guyanese coach Leslie Allen, John­son ar­rived in Trinidad al­ready es­tab­lished as a top-tier ath­lete. Over the course of more than 20 years on lo­cal soil, he con­sis­tent­ly es­tab­lished him­self among the coun­try’s top five male run­ners, re­peat­ed­ly mount­ing podi­ums across 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon dis­tances.