T&T’s Bovell wins Bronze, earns record haul for T&T

Trinidad and Tobago’s George Bovell III won bronze in the men’s 50-metre freestyle swimming finals, becoming the first of his countrymen to earn five individual Pan Am Games medals. Bovell finished in a fast 22.36 seconds, setting a new national record and yesterday, at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Park here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the 24-year-old was crowned T&T Pan Am Games King.

“I’m very happy,” the Athens Olympics 200m individual medley bronze medallist told the Express, shortly after yesterday’s race.

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