CEDENIO Machel

Olympic Games

Year	Location	400m	4 x 400m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	4th (44.01)	Round 1 (DQ)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	400m	4 x 400m
2019	Doha, QAT	7th (45.30)	5th (3:00.74)
2017	London, GBR	SF (45.91)	1st (2:58.12)
2015	Beijing, CHN	7th (45.06)	2nd (2:58.20)

World Relays

Year	Location	4 x 400m
2019	Yokohama, JPN	1st (3:00.81)

Pan American Games

Year	Location	400m	4 x 400m
2019	Lima, PER	SF (46.77)	3rd (3:02.25)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	400m
2019	1 x 6th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
6	2019	400m	Stanford, CA, USA	45.71

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
7	2021	400m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Walnut, CA, USA	45.47

World Indoor Championships

Year	Location	4 x 400m
2018	Birmingham, GBR	4th

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Vulcan (Twitter profile, 20 Jan 2016)

Dancing, listening to music, football, playing computer games. (Facebook page, 12 Sep 2015)

Athlete

English

Simplex Athletic Club [Trinidad and Tobago]

Lance Brauman [personal], USA; Charles Joseph [national]

He took up athletics in primary school and won his first gold medal at age 15 in the 100m at the Carifta Games [a pan-Caribbean regional tournament]. "At that point I thought, 'I have some talent, maybe I should stick with this sport'." (caribbean-beat.com, 01 Oct 2019)

"I love running the 400m. When I first started track and field, my events were the 100m and 200m. I loved those events but for some reason the distances did not like me because I always got injured. My coach suggested I should try the 400m when I was about 15." (guardian.co.tt, 05 Jan 2016)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (caribbean-beat.com, 01 Oct 2019)

Winning a gold medal in the 4x400m relay at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, ON, Canada. (guardian.co.tt, 05 Jan 2016)

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, US sprinter Michael Johnson. (Facebook page, 12 Sep 2015)

His family. (guardian.co.tt, 05 Jan 2016)

"If you lose, it's not a reason to give up. It's a reason to go forward." (caribbean-beat.com, 01 Oct 2019)

The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee [TTOC] named him 2015 Sportsman of the Year. (guardian.co.tt, 05 Jan 2016)

In 2015 he was named Senior Male Athlete of the Year by the National Association of Athletics Administrations [NAAA] in Trinidad and Tobago. (guardian.co.tt, 04 Jan 2016)

The Trinidad Express newspaper named him 2014 Youth of the Year. (trinidadexpress.com, 12 Feb 2015)

In 2013 he received an award from the Point Fortin Borough Corporation in Trinidad and Tobago for his contribution to athletics. (pointfortinborough.com, 05 Jan 2015)

In 2012 he was named First Citizens Sports Foundation Junior Sportsman of the Year in Trinidad and Tobago. (guardian.co.tt, 27 Jan 2013)

He was chosen as Emerging Athlete of the Year at the Spirit of Sports Awards in Trinidad and Tobago in 2012. (newsday.co.tt, 03 Jan 2013)

In 2012 he was named U20 Track Athlete of the Year by the National Association of Athletics Administrations [NAAA] in Trinidad and Tobago. (sportarchivestt.com, 01 Jun 2015)