T&T's Michelle-Lee Ahye set a new na­tion­al record in the semi­fi­nal stage but could on­ly fin­ish sixth in the 60m fi­nal, on the clos­ing day of the IAAF World In­door Cham­pi­onship, in So­port, Poland, yes­ter­day. Ahye and Lalonde Gor­don were the on­ly two T&T ath­letes to make it to the fi­nal of their re­spec­tive events, but nei­ther were able to medal.

Ahye who set a new T&T mark (7.10 sec­onds) in the semi­fi­nal, ran one hun­dredth of a sec­ond slow­er in the fi­nal. The race was won by Ja­maica's Shelly-Ann Fras­er Price in a fresh world lead­ing mark of 6.98. Fras­er Price stunned the are­na to drop the more favoured Murielle Ahoure of the Ivory coast in­to sec­ond. Ahoure pre­vi­ous held the record of 7.03.

Ja­maica, which closed the com­pe­ti­tion with the fifth high­est medal count, was oth­er­wise best rep­re­sent­ed in the women's 4x400m re­lay, plac­ing sec­ond with a new na­tion­al record of 3:26.54. But it was the USA's day, as their 4x400m men's team cap­tured gold with a world lead­ing time of 3:24.83.

Ja­maica al­so rewrote its na­tion­al record in the men's 4x400m with a third-placed 3:03.69 run. Again, USA took the top prize, this time break­ing the world in­door record with a blis­ter­ing 3:02.13, to close the tour­na­ment in style. USA took a to­tal of 11 medals- sev­en gold, two sil­ver and two bronze.

Ethiopia's long dis­tance spe­cial­ists helped the coun­try claim sec­ond in the to­tal medal count. Rus­sia (four medals; two gold, two sil­ver) and Britain (six medals; one gold, two sil­ver, three bronze) fin­ished third and fourth, re­spec­tive­ly.

On­ly two of T&T's four rep­re­sen­ta­tives made it to the fi­nals of their re­spec­tive events. Lalonde Gor­don, world lead­ing 400m run­ner placed fifth in that fi­nal on Sat­ur­day. The Czech Re­pub­lic's Pavel Maslak won the race, while Ba­hami­an Chris Brown fin­ished sec­ond with a per­son­al best, 45.58. Brown, 35, be­came the old­est medal­ist at the World In­door Cham­pi­onship.

Geronne Black, T&T's oth­er women's 60m ath­lete ex­it­ed af­ter the pre­lim­i­nary heats af­ter plac­ing fifth out of sev­en in her heat and 31st over­all. She clocked 7.45 sec­onds. Jar­rin Solomon, al­so rep­re­sent­ing T&T in the 400m event was elim­i­nat­ed af­ter the pre­lim­i­nary stage as well.

Solomon nar­row­ly missed out on a place in the semi­fi­nals, clock­ing 46.86 for a third place fin­ish out of five run­ner in his heat and 15th over­all.