Hansle Parchment rewards Good Samaritan who paid his taxi fare on his way to gold in Olympic 110m hurdles

Most Olympic athletes have a large number of folks to thank, from the households that supported them to the trainers who oversaw their growth, once they win a medal. For Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment, that checklist features a single particular person whose act of kindness on the streets of Tokyo meant the distinction between his Olympic desires being realized and never coming true.

According to a report by Sky News, Parchment was in a position to monitor down the stranger who helped him pay a taxi fare throughout the Olympics, when he took a bus to the mistaken venue for his semi-final in males’s 110m hurdles. Stranded and with little time to get to the monitor, Parchment’s saving grace ended up being an Olympic volunteer named Trijana, who Parchment went again to in an effort to present her the gold medal he ended up successful within the occasion.

Parchment repaid the taxi fare that Trijana had given her, and in addition gave her a Jamaica T-Shirt for her bother as nicely.

Along with Parchment himself, the Jamaican authorities can be set to reward Trijana. According to a report by The Gleaner, Trijana is now being invited to Jamaica by the federal government’s Ministry of Tourism.

“It’s selfless what she did; one wouldn’t know what the result would have been,” stated Edmund Bartlett of the Ministry of Tourism. “Irrespective of the place on the planet she is, we need to reciprocate the kindness proven to certainly one of our personal.”

Parchment ended up prevailing within the 110m hurdles in an occasion which noticed Jamaican athletes take two of three locations on the rostrum. Along with Parchment, Ronald Levy additionally positioned by incomes the race’s bronze medal. Parchment’s gold medal was the primary of his Olympic profession and his second total after incomes bronze within the 110-meter hurdles at London 2012.