[2][3] Nicknamed "The Mighty Midget" he remained relatively unknown outside of local competition until he won the gold medal at the 1946 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia.

At those Games he became the first athlete from Trinidad and Tobago to win an Olympic medal by taking the silver, behind Egyptian Mahmoud Fayad.

On this occasion he won the bronze medal behind Rafael Chimishkyan and Nikolai Saksonov, both of the Soviet Union.

He finished in fourth position with a combined lift of 330 kilograms (730 lb), missing out on a medal by one place and 5 kg.

[10] He continued competing until 1960 but retired for good when he failed to make the West Indies team for the Olympics in Rome.