Borel goes for second gold in Italy

T&T’s Cleopatra Borel will seek to continue her winning ways in Italy when she goes for her second win at the Reiti Grand Prix at the Guidobaldi Stadium in Reiti, Italy later today. Borel is enjoying a successful stint in Italy after striking gold at the Palio Citta della Querica meet in Rovererto on September 4 in a season’s best of 18.82 metres, improving on the 18.71 distance she registered in taking second in Padova two days earlier. The two-time Commonwealth and Pan American Games medallist will be seeking to end her season on a winning note as she is celebrating ten years of representing T&T. She will come up against the two-time defending World and Olympic champion Valarie Adams (New Zealand) and Olympic silver medallist Eveginiya Kolodko (Russia). 

Another local athlete in action today is Emmanuel Callender, who will do battle in the men’s 100m and will face Commonwealth and Pan American champion Lerone Clarke of Jamaica, former World Champion veteran Kim Collins (St Kitts/Nevis) and the French trio of Christophe Lemaitre, Jimmy Vicaut and Ronald Pognon. 

 

The two-time Olympic medallist is competing in his first race since helping T&T to bronze in the men’s 4x100m relay at the Olympics Games in London, England from July 27 to August 12. Meanwhile, double Olympic bronze medallist Lalonde Gordon describes his 2012 season as his best ever. After finishing third in the last race of the season in the Brussels, Belgium leg of the Samsung Diamond League on Friday in 45.13, Gordon, who posted his comments on his Facebook page, shared that he was happy that his season is over and will be taking a break from training until November. Gordon’s time was the third best ever of his career behind his bronze medal clocking of 44.52 in the individual 400m finals at the London Olympics on August 6 and the 44.58 he set in topping the semifinals one day earlier.