World Champion Women’s Boxer Dies In Accident

Women’s world boxing champion Jizelle Salandy has died at the Port of Spain General Hospital after she crashed into a concrete pillar. The collision caused massive head and internal injuries and she was  rushed to the hospital, but died while undergoing emergency surgery. The passenger, Tammie Watson a Trinidad and Tobago national woman footballer , was also hospitalized. The accident came just three days after Olympic bronze medalist Richard Thompson and another member of the Trinidad Olympic team were injured in a car accident. The country’s Sports Minister Gary Hunt described young Salandy as an “icon” and had been a “tremendous and great motivator to the young people in Trinidad and Tobago”. “Not every day a country produces a world champion,” he said. “It is a sad loss.”

She had been named by Women Boxing Archive Network (WBAN) Top History Making Fighter for 2006 and had also been chosen as Trinidad and Tobago’s Sportswoman of the Year that same year.