Deon Lendore

Deon Kristofer Lendore (28 October 1992 – 10 January 2022) was a Trinidad and Tobago sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres. He won a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and won medals at the Pan American Junior Athletics Championships, World Athletics Championships and World Athletics Indoor Championships. Lendore died in a car collision in Texas, United States, on 10 January 2022. Lendore was born in Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago, where he started competing for Abilene Christian Wildcats. He attended Queen's Royal College, and later moved to Texas and attended Texas A&M University, where he competed in the school's track and field team from 2012 to 2014. In 2014, He won The Bowerman, which is the highest individual honor in NCAA track and field. He had won all 14 events in the 2014 season, including the NCAA indoor and outdoor championships. Lendore later worked as a volunteer coach at Texas A&M University, from 2020 until 2022. Lendore's first international event was the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics. The year, he was part of the Trinidad and Tobago team that won a silver medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships.