Pat Holder donates trophies to Suriname’s President and Director of Sport

VETERAN sports personality Pat Holder on Sunday evening handed over two trophies to the Surinamese Director of Sport, Luciano Mentowikromo, at the IGG closing ceremony held at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. One of the trophies is meant for Surinamese President, Desi Bouterse, while according to Luciano the other will be placed in the country’s Olympic Association archives.
The trophies were prizes that Holder won from participating in his first two cycling meets in Suriname in 1951 and 1952. He had won Bronze at both events. Holder told Chronicle Sport he could think of no better people to take care of the trophies.
Earlier last year,Holder had made a similar gesture to Guyana’s President David Granger. Paying the President a courtesy call, Holder bestowed on the President the second trophy he ever won some 66 years ago in cycling. Holder and President Granger attended the same primary school in Queenstown where both the 71-year-old Granger and Holder, now 82, lived during their younger days.