Dominica’s hopes high for medals at 2015 PanAm Games
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Dominica’s hopes high for medals at 2015 PanAm Games

By Nicole Georges
July 13 2015 5:16 P.M



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Dominica's PanAm Team: (left to right)- Coach James Cawood, David Registe, Dillon Smith, Coach McNeil Jules, Chef de Mission Woody Lawrence and Valerian Spicer.
Toronto, Canada (TDN) Chef de Mission of Dominica’s 2015 PanAm athletic team, former 1996 Olympian Woody Lawrence, says he anticipates Dominica will walk away with several medals from the Games this year. Five experienced athletes will be competing for Dominica: Valerian Spicer in women’s boxing (60kg weight class), Dillon Smith in shot put, Yordanys Garcia in triple jump, Thea Lafond in high jump, and David Registe in long jump.

Lawrence, commenting on the team’s prospects, noted that one of the members is already a medal holder, “I’m expecting pretty big things from this team! Our team is small but very energetic, and excited. David Registe is already a silver medallist from the 2011 PanAm Games, and we also have potential through Yordanys, Dillon, Thea and Valerian to be very successful in all the events we are competing in.” Dominica is one of 41 countries participating in the 2015 Games with events being held at various stadiums and venues across the greater Toronto area.

Caribbean athletes were celebrated at a special welcome reception hosted by the Caribbean Counsular Corps last weekend. Dominica’s Trade and Investment Commissioner in Canada, Frances Delsol said she hoped the Dominica team’s efforts would encourage unity, “Sports and music bring us together, and this is an opportunity for us to put aside our differences, come together and celebrate Dominica, one of the most unique islands in the Caribbean.”

Dominica’s first appearance at the Pan Am Games was at 1995 Mar del Plata where Jérôme Romain won a silver medal in long jump. More recently, Dominica has won two additional medals, with Chris Doyle winning bronze in the men’s 400 m in athletics at Rio de Janeiro 2007, and David Registe’s 2011 silver medal win in long jump. Dominica is currently ranked thirty-seventh on the all-time Pan Am Games medals list.

Dominica’s 2015 PanAm management team consists of Chef de Mission, Woody Lawrence and boxing coaches McNeil Jules and James Cawood. The team is accompanied by sports dignitaries, President of the Dominica Olympic Committee Felix Wilson, General Secretary Thomas Dorset and athletics official Emanuel Loblack.

Over 6100 athletes will compete in the 2015 PanAm Games which runs from July 10-26.


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From left: Trade & Investment Commissioner Frances Delsol, Dominica Olympic Committee (D.O.C) Gen, Secretary Thomas Dorsett; D.O.C President Felix Wilson,Chef de Mission Woody Lawrence and representative of the Caribbean Consular Corps.


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