BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) – World sprint hurdles champion Ryan Brathwaite collected his Barbados Sports Personality of the Year award Saturday night just hours after arriving home from New York where he competed Friday night at the Millrose Games.

After taking the runner-up spot in the 60-metre hurdles at the Millrose Games, the 21-year-old Brathwaite flew home Saturday afternoon for the National Sports Council (NSC) 2009 awards function at the Frank Collymore Hall in the city.

Brathwaite had been a certainty for the award after creating history at the IAAF World Championship in Berlin in August, becoming the first Barbadian to win a global senior track and field title with his win in the 110-metre hurdles.

He clocked a career-best and CARICOM record 13.14 seconds to win the IAAF World Championship title in Berlin in a stirring finish ahead of Americans Terrence Trammell and David Payne.

Trammell (7.49 seconds) beat Brathwaite (7.61) into second position at Madison Square Garden Friday night at the Millrose Games and it is unclear whether the young Barbadian will appear at the Reebok Invitational meet next weekend in Boston.

Organisers had announced this past week that he had been entered for the meet but Brathwaite, unhappy with his results so far on the indoor circuit, said his Millrose Games outing was his last indoor meet for 2010.

“I just ended my indoor season. It’s not up to standard, but I am not really an indoor person,” he told CMC Sport Saturday night.

“For the outdoor season, I will be ready to go,” added the 21-year-old, who was also given the Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) Sports Personality of the Year award last month.

Brathwaite was runner-up on January 23 in the 60-metre hurdles behind American Jerome Miller at the Razorback Invitational in Arkansas.

During Saturday night’s awards function, Brathwaite also collected the Male Senior Sports Personality and Sports Minister’s awards while his local schoolboy coach Alwyn Babb, the newly appointed national netball coach, was named coach of year.

West Indies cricketer Pamela Lavine was named Female Senior Personality of the Year.

Surfer Chelsea Tuach, ranked 43rd in world, and tennis player Darian King, rated 47th in world, won the Female Junior and Male Junior awards, respectively.