Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...

has competed at every edition of the

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since the twelfth edition of the multi-sport event in 1995. Track and field athlete Dominic Johnson won the country's first Pan Am medal in 2003, a bronze in the men's pole vault. To date, all three of Saint Lucia's medals have been won in the sport of

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. As of the last Pan American Games in 2015, Saint Lucia is twenty-ninth on the all time medals list. Saint Lucia did not compete at the first and only

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in 1990. High jumper Levern Spencer won St. Lucia's first ever

gold medal, in 2015.

Medal count

References

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