Mike Agostini: Paperback, 128 pages

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael ("Mike") George Raymond Agostini (born January 23, 1935 in Port-of-Spain) is a former track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago, who won the 100 yards final at the British Empire Games in Vancouver, Canada, on July 31, 1954. With that performance he became T&T's first ever athletics gold medallist at the quadrennial multi-sports festival, today known as the Commonwealth Games. In the final he defeated Canadian Don McFarlane and Hector Hogan from Australia. A graduate in Economics (California State University, Fresno, 1958), he later became an author, but is mostly remembered as being the first person from Trinidad and Tobago to study on an athletics scholarship in the US. He was also T&T's first formal Olympic double sprint finalist in Melbourne at the 1956 Summer Olympics, where he placed sixth in the 100 and fourth in the 200 metres event, representing the British West Indies. He is still T&T's most prolific Pan American Games medallist with five medals in two Games, in Mexico City (1955) and Chicago (1959).