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1976 was a great Olympics for the Caribbean and created the environment for future Caribbean athletes.

Hasley Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago won the 100 metres Gold.
Donald Quarrie of Jamaica won the 200 metres Gold.
Alberto Juantorena of Cuba won the 400 metres Gold.

Donald O'Riley Quarrie CD (born 25 February 1951) is a Jamaican former track and field athlete, one of the world's top sprinters during the 1970s. At the 1976 Summer Olympics he was the gold medallist in the Olympic 200 meters and silver medallist in the Olympic 100 meters. In all, he competed in five Olympic Games and won four Olympic medals during his career.
He nearly equalled the 200 meters world recordin 1971, coming within .03 seconds of the record set by Tommie Smith in 1968. He has lifetime bests of 10.07 seconds and 19.86 seconds for the events.

He won 100 metres/200 metres sprint doubles at the 1970 Commonwealth Games, 1971 Pan American Games, and 1974 Commonwealth Games. He was the first male to defend either the 100 m or 200 m title at the Commonwealth Games and a 100 m win at the 1978 Commonwealth Games makes him the only person to have won that title three times. He won nine gold medals in the sprints at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics from 1971 to 1981.

Hasley Crawford was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, one of the eleven children of Lionel Crawford and Phyllis Holder, and began pursuing athletics at the age of 17. He is a six-time Trinidad and Tobago 100 metres champion, and won the 200 metre title in 1976. He debuted internationally in 1970, winning a bronze medal in the 100 metres at the Commonwealth Games. Only two years later, he surprisingly qualified for the 100 metres final of the Olympics in Munich, but pulled his hamstring after 20 metres and failed to finish.

After finishing as the runner up at the 1975 Pan American Games in the 100 metres, Crawford was added to the team of American coach Bob Parks. His new coach prepared him for the 100 metres and 200 metres events at the 1976 Summer Olympics with a strategy of only allowing him to run in a few races during the season. This tactic paid off, as Crawford, in the inside lane 1, narrowly won the 100 metres final in a time of 10.06 seconds, just 0.02 seconds in front of Don Quarrie of Jamaica, winning Trinidad and Tobago's first Olympic gold medal.[2] He had also qualified for the 200 metres final, but was forced to pull out mid-race after injuring his pelvis.

Alberto Juantorena (born 3 December 1950)[4] is a Cuban former runner. He is the only athlete to win both the 400 and 800 m Olympic titles, which he achieved in 1976. He was ranked as world's best runner in the 400 m in 1974 and 1976–1978, and in the 800 m in 1976–77, and was chosen as the Track & Field News Athlete of the Year in 1976 and 1977.

Juantorena made it to the 800m Olympic final, and led the field for most of the race, eventually winning in a world record time of 1:43.50.[9] He was the first non-English speaking athlete to win Olympic gold in this event. Three days later, he also won the 400 meter final, setting a low-altitude world record at 44.26.[10] By winning the 400 meters, he became the first athlete since Paul Pilgrim at the 1906 Intercalated Games to do such a double at an Olympic sports event, and was the only man to do so at an officially recognized Olympics

Since nutten nah gwaan fe Caribbean peeps in Cricket, wi might haffi tun our attention to odda Caribbean sports

Sprinting is in our veins, it’s our gift.

In reply to Slipfeeler

This is the problem with the Canadian fatman- he doesn’t tell you that Alan Wells drugged his way to the legacy of both afterwards

In reply to JoeGrine

DQ's start was his problem..he was slower from the blocks than his main rivals then, Crawfie,Steve Williams, McTear and Riddick.
And this worked against him in 100m. The 200m was his much better event and different as he was a much better runner on the curve.

In reply to hubert

Was Borzov the Russian flash in that era he was rated as the ultimate technician a rare white man with speed to burn

In reply to hubert

DQ couldn’t beat Hasely in the 100 meres

In reply to Castled

In reply to Barry

That’s debatable, DQ had a slow start but once he gets going, he could have beaten any of his rivals.

In reply to Slipfeeler

Quarrie beat Crawford in the 100M finals at the commonwealth games in 1978. that is a fact, not an opinion, and is not debatable.

In reply to Barry

In reply to Dukes

He apparently only watched 1 race.

In reply to culpepperboy

I watched many more races with her in my arms

In reply to Dukes

These instances are spread out like Hetty’s nose

In reply to Dukes

1976 Olympic was the one that mattered…. Crawford did well against the more important US athletes in the Southern games

In 1978,Crawford was training himself at home- 2 druggies ran that race (like pelters)

What a great run in the 1972 Olympics
Since Dukes knows everything he can tell us where Quarry was
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In reply to johndom90

Back then only the Olympics mattered… now for the Jamaicans, some ignore the commonwealth games for money like Sherika… life evolves

In reply to johndom90

How Bolt come in this? One dimensional thinking

In reply to Barry

In reply to Dukes

What happened in 1972- diarrhea?

Makes 1976 so much better

List all the major 100 meter races that Crawford won apart from 1976 Olympics
Was that it or did he win many other 100 meter races?
Pan Am Games
CAC Games
Commonwealth Games
Major Meets in the US,UK etc

Hasely made us believe back then
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A broken down expat Guyanese Physician will make us forget- from pelting to running while stinking Burnham suppressed

9.8 in yuh Hetty
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Chrissy this is so beautiful
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Black power and all that

Just a Caribbean black man trying to excel pulled down by the fat belly expats- first a dog who ran for Britain; now a physician does the same— you are nothing even if you beat Quarrie twice in 1976 and he was nowhere in 1972- they will take that away from him as they sh!t on their own land — exshat indeed….

Men still elevating one-pop Crawford over DQ?

You can tell people who know ZERO about T&F.

Crawford got lucky when DQ slipped out di blocks. Credit to him and congrats on the one medal. Last I checked, DQ has more than one, and one of them is a gold.

DQ was CLEARLY the greater sprinter

The end.

In reply to Barry

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In reply to JahJah

He beat quarrie twice in 1976. Where was quarrie in 1972- both were injury prone- what about you and drugs?

In reply to JahJah

Jerkpork
It was never a competition… for you it is… what is done is done

In reply to Dukes

That is the truth, brother

In reply to JahJah

DQ slipped? You see that b!tch? DQ didn’t say that

In reply to Barry

In reply to Barry

Tell us about the second time Crawford beat Quarrie in 1976. I am unaware of it.

In reply to Dukes

Semi-final and final

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7 minutes- he measured quarrie

In reply to Barry

Thanks