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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Lendore shatters 400m record in Texas

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T&T ath­lete De­on Lendore took the spot­light on Sat­ur­day at the South­east­ern Con­fer­ence (SEC) In­door Cham­pi­onships cap­tur­ing gold in the 4x400 me­tres re­lay, af­ter break­ing the T&T 400m record in 45.03 sec­onds–a world lead­ing time this year.

Lendore broke his school's old record and his T&T mark, which pre­vi­ous­ly stood at 45.15, suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ing his SEC In­door ti­tle in the process. He al­so broke the Gilliam In­door Track Sta­di­um, Texas record (pre­vi­ous­ly 45.33).

Lendore's 44.63 leg an­chored his Ag­gie team of Shavez Hart (47.06), Aldrich Bai­ley Jr (45.40) and fel­low T&T run­ner Caryle Roudette (46.12). The team clocked 3:03.2 to break the 4x400 NCAA record. Lendore T&T Olympic medal­ist claimed his fifth con­fer­ence ti­tle in the event and was part of his fifth con­fer­ence ti­tle. Roudette, who al­so com­pet­ed in the 400m event placed 11th over­all in 47.10 sec­onds.

Jamol James of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ten­nessee placed fourth in the 60m event, in 6.69 sec­onds- al­so a per­son­al best. James al­so com­pet­ed in the men's long jump with a 6.95m leap for a 12th placed fin­ish.

In the end, Texas A&M fin­ished third (83.33) in the points tal­ly be­hind the de­fend­ing cham­pi­on Arkansas (121) and Flori­da (106). Among the women, T&T/Texas A&M ath­letes, Janeil Bellille pro­vid­ed a per­son­al best per­for­mance, tak­ing a fourth placed fin­ish in the women's 400m in 52.58 sec­onds.

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