Lovie Santana has been appointed TTOC's Tokyo 2020 Chef de Mission ©TTOC

The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) has appointed Lovie Santana as its Chef de Mission for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games.

Santana has held the position of senior administrative officer at TTOC for the past 11 years and was Chef de Mission for the Trinidad and Tobago team at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla in Colombia.

She was also the assistant Chef de Mission at the Rio 2016 Olympics and the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima in Peru.

Santana supported the Trinidad and Tobago delegation as an administrative assistant to the Chef de Mission at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto in Canada.

Lovie Santana supported the Trinidad and Tobago team at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games ©TTOC
Lovie Santana supported the Trinidad and Tobago team at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games ©TTOC

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are scheduled to take place from July 23 to August 8 2021, after the Games were postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trinidad and Tobago has won three gold, five silver and 11 bronze medals at the Olympics, including a bronze medal for javelin thrower Keshorn Walcott at Rio 2016.

Walcott is one of only two athletes from the country to win an individual Olympic gold medal, following his victory in the men's javelin at the London 2012 Olympics.

The nation's other gold came in the 4x100 metres relay at Beijing 2008.