Nyoshia Cain
{{short description|Trinidad and Tobago Paralympic athlete}}
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{{Medal|Competition|Paralympic Games}}
{{Medal|Bronze|2016 Rio de Janeiro|100 m T44}}
{{Medal|Competition|World Championships}}
{{Medal|Bronze|2015 Doha|100 m T44}}
{{Medal|Bronze|2017 London|100 m T44}}
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{{Medal|Gold|2019 Lima|100m T64}}
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Nyoshia Cain (born 15 November 1994) is a Trinidad and Tobago athlete who won bronze medals at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships, 2016 Summer Paralympics and the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships.
Career
Nyoshia Cain was born on 15 November 1994.{{cite web|title=CAIN Nyosha|url=https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/doha-2015/ENG/ZB/ZBB101A_QA2015AT@@@@@@@ENG_number=23215.htm|publisher=Paralympic.org|accessdate=12 November 2017}} She was diagnosed with hyperplasia as a child, resulting in one side of body growing faster than the other.{{cite web|title=Cain repeats as bronze medallist|url=http://www.ttoc.org/index.php/futureisfemale/6691-cain-repeats-as-bronze-medallist|publisher=Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee|accessdate=12 November 2017|date=18 July 2017}} She works as a Clerical Assistant at the Ministry of Health in Trinidad and Tobago married Codi Claxton in March 2018. She took up athletics, being trained by a Cuban national, later by Micky Ruben, earning the nickname "HurriCain Nyo".{{cite news|last1=Bonn|first1=Donstan|title=Nyoshia Cain|url=http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20160825/news/nyoshia-cain|accessdate=12 November 2017|work=Trinidad Express|date=25 August 2016}}
Cain took part in the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar, where she finished fifth in the women's 200 metres in the T44 class with a time of 28.24 seconds.{{cite web|title=Event Overview – Women's 200m T44|url=https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/doha-2015/ENG/ZZ/ZZS105A_QA2015ATW205@@@ENG.htm|publisher=Paralympic.org|accessdate=12 November 2017}} In the T44 100 metres, she set a new personal best in the final of 13.31 seconds, winning the bronze medal.{{cite web|title=Event Overview – Women's 100m T44|url=https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/doha-2015/ENG/ZZ/ZZS105A_QA2015ATW140@@@ENG.htm|publisher=Paralympic.org|accessdate=12 November 2017}}
She was selected for the Trinidad and Tobago team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for both the 100 and 200 metres. In her heat of the T44 200 metres, she finished in third place behind Germany's Irmgard Bensusan. This would have been sufficient to qualify her for the final, but Cain was disqualified for a lane infringement between the 100 and 150 metre markers. An appeal was lodged, but the referee's decision was upheld.{{cite web|title=Cain disqualified in 200m T44 run|url=http://www.ttoc.org/index.php/rio-2016-top/6401-cain-disqualified-in-200m-t44-run|publisher=Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee|accessdate=12 November 2017|date=15 September 2016}}
Taking part in the women's 100 metres in the T44 class, she finished second in Heat Two with a time of 13.32 seconds behind Marlou van Rhijn of the Netherlands, which qualified her for the final. In the final later that day, she finished in third position to take the bronze medal with a time of 13.10 seconds behind van Rhijn who took the gold, and Bensusan with the silver. Cain had run with a hamstring injury, setting a new personal best in the final.{{cite web|title=Cain captures 100m bronze at Paralympic Games|url=http://www.ttoc.org/index.php/rio-2016-top/6407-cain-captures-100m-bronze-at-paralympic-games|publisher=Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee|accessdate=12 November 2017|date=18 September 2016}} This was one of the three medals won by Trinidad and Tobago, the other two taken by Akeem Stewart.{{cite web|title=Stewart, Cain and Ince return as Paralympic heroes|url=http://www.ttoc.org/index.php/rio-2016-top/6415-stewart-cain-and-ince-return-as-paralympic-heroes|publisher=Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee|accessdate=12 November 2017|date=21 September 2016}}
At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England, Cain repeated her bronze medal from the 2016 Paralympics. She finished in a time of 13.25 seconds, behind the United Kingdom's Sophie Kamlish who set a new world record time of 12.92 seconds, and van Rhijn in second place.
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Category:Athletes from Port of Spain
Category:Trinidad and Tobago female sprinters
Category:21st-century Trinidad and Tobago sportswomen
Category:Paralympic athletes for Trinidad and Tobago
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Category:People from Laventille
Category:Paralympic bronze medalists for Trinidad and Tobago
Category:Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Category:Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
Category:Medalists at the 2019 Parapan American Games
Category:Medalists at the World Para Athletics Championships
Category:Parapan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Category:Parapan American Games gold medalists for Trinidad and Tobago
Category:Parapan American Games bronze medalists for Trinidad and Tobago