Clay­ton Clarke

T&T top field ath­lete Cleopa­tra Borel-Browne claimed her first Com­mon­wealth sil­ver medal in the Women's shot put fi­nals at the 19th edi­tion of the games at the Jawa­har­lal Nehru Sta­di­um in Del­hi, In­dia, yes­ter­day. On day six of com­pe­ti­tion, the na­tion­al record hold­er tossed the "iron ball' a dis­tance of 19.03 me­tres in her first at­tempt, to take sec­ond be­hind New Zealand's Valar­ie Adams, who cap­tured her sec­ond suc­ces­sive Com­mon­wealth gold medal. It was al­so Adams' first ef­fort dur­ing the event which pro­duced her gold­en throw, a record per­for­mance of 20.47 me­tres. Four years ago in Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia, Borel-Brown, the 2010 CAC Games cham­pi­on, was third to Adams whose oth­er ef­forts at her third Com­mon­wealth Games pro­duced dis­tances of 18.91, 18.70,18.65 and 18.46m. Tase­le Mar­garet Sat­u­pai of Samoa placed third, with an ef­fort of 16.43m.

Borel-Brown's sil­ver im­proved T&T's tal­ly to four medals, two sil­ver and two bronze. Roger Daniel and Rod­ney Allen opened T&T's cam­paign on Tues­day with a bronze in the men's pair 50m pis­tol event. Aaron Arm­strong sped to an­oth­er bronze in the men's 100m two days lat­er and Ayan­na Alexan­der leaped to sil­ver in the women's triple jump on Fri­day. T&T's all-time best is nine medals (five gold, two, sil­ver and two bronze) which was achieved in 1966 in Kingston, Ja­maica. The four medals won so far has in­creased the coun­try's Com­mon­wealth medal haul, which now stands at 42. Rhon­da Watkins looks set to add to that to­tal af­ter she booked her spot for the women's long jump fi­nals as the top qual­i­fi­er. In the qual­i­fi­ca­tion round yes­ter­day, the 2006 World Ju­nior cham­pi­on leaped to 6.56 me­tres and was the on­ly ath­lete to sur­pass the 6.50 me­tres stan­dard.

From left, T&T's Cleopa­tra Borel-Brown, New Zealand's Va­lerie Adams, and Samoa's Tase­le Sat­u­pai pose with their medals for the Women's Shot Put dur­ing the Com­mon­wealth Games at the Jawa­har­lal Nehru Sta­di­um in New Del­hi, In­dia, yes­ter­day. AP Pho­to

Watkins, the na­tion­al in­door and out­door record hold­er will be joined by Alexan­der, who set a per­son­al best of 6.02 m to make it in­to the top 12 at the last qual­i­fi­er. The fi­nals are set for to­day. Em­manuel Cal­len­dar will be seek­ing re­demp­tion in the men's 200m. Af­ter nar­row­ly los­ing out on a medal in the short­er sprint. The 2008 Olympic and 2009 World 4x100m re­lay sil­ver medal­list will con­test the semis of the men's half lap race set for 6.10 pm to­day. Cal­len­dar will start in lane nine in his at­tempt to book a place in the fi­nals. He clocked 20.90 sec­onds in the sec­ond quar­ter­fi­nal yes­ter­day. Ear­li­er in the day, the 2008 CAC Cham­pi­on was al­so third in the heats in 21.16 sec­onds. Roger Daniel and Rod­ney Allen will be seek­ing their sec­ond medal when they con­test the fi­nals of the men's Sin­gles 25 me­tres cen­tre fire fi­nals.

Yes­ter­day, the duo fin­ished tenth in the pairs event with 1118 points. The men's hock­ey team slumped to their four straight loss at the Games. The Kwand­wane Brown-led out­fit was beat­en 4�0 by Cana­da and fin­ished fifth and last in group B. The team will play Malaysia on Mon­day for the ninth place. Mean­while, the women net­ballers al­so went down to Malawi by 61�50. Annesta­cia Wil­son again led the shoot­ing with 26 from 30 goals with Joel­isha Coop­er adding 17 of 19. The Ca­lyp­so girls now lie 4th in group A with four points. Lead­ing the pack are the Aus­tralians who are on eight points from four wins. Ja­maica is sec­ond on six and Malawi third with four. T&T will play Aus­tralia in their fi­nal group match to­day.

To­day's Sched­ule

TRACK AND FIELD

5.35 pm (IND)/8.05 am (TT)

W 100m H Round: Alee­sha Bar­ber

6.10 pm/8.40 am:

M 200M Semis:

Heat one lane 9:

Em­manuel Cal­len­dar

6.25 pm/8.55 am:

W Long Jump Fi­nals Rhon­da Watkins, Ayan­na Alexan­der

8.10 pm/10.40 am:

M 200m Fi­nals

BOX­ING

(Talk­a­to­ra Sta­di­um)

6.30 pm/9 am:

M Su­per­heavy­weight Quar­ter­fi­nals

Tariq Ab­dul Haqq vs Joseph Bark­er (New Zealand)

CY­CLING

(Sansad Marg)

1 pm/1.30 am:

M 186 Road km road race

Emile Abra­ham

NET­BALL

(Thya­garaj Sports Com­plex)

9 pm/11.30 am:

W Group A

Trinidad and To­ba­go vs Aus­tralia

SHOOT­ING

(Dr Karni Singh Shoot­ing Range)

9 am/11.30 pm (last night):

M Sin­gle 25 m cen­tre fire pis­tol fi­nal:

Daniel and Rod­ney Allen