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Borel, Baptiste go for glory

Cleopatra Borel and Kelly Ann Baptiste will be looking to improve on their third placing in their last Diamond League outings when they compete in the Samsung Diamond League Weltklasse Meet in Zurich, Switzerland today. Borel was third in the women's shot put event in Birmingham on Sunday with a distance of 18.36. The national record holder has been having a relatively successful season with top six finishes in all her competition for the year. Her best performance was second at the Jamaican Invitational (18.69) and at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial in Hungary (18.58). Borel will come up against the inform Olympic champion Valeri Adams who is unbeaten all season.

Baptiste will be looking to back up her third place finish in the women's 100m event in Lausanne, Switzerland on August 23. The 2011 World Championships bronze medallist will again face a stellar field headed by Olympic sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica and World Champion Carmelita Jeter (USA). Fraser-Pryce retained her Olympic title in London in 10.75 ahead of Jeter (10.78) but the American has gotten the better of her rival in their last two match ups in Lausanne and Birmingham. Jeter's compatriot, London 200m champion Allyson Felix and Jeneba Taramoh and former Olympic and World runner up Kerron Stewart also of Jamaica are also in the line up.

Olympic sixth place finisher Jehue Gordon is among the starters in the men' 400m hurdles event. The 2010 World Junior champion will face six of the men he ran against in the Olympics finals in London including gold, silver and bronze medallists Felix Sanchez (Dominican Republic) Michael Tinsley (USA) and Javier Culson (Puerto Rico). Gordon will be aiming at his national record of 47.96 which he set in the Olympics semifinals. The UWI student will be seeking to continue his impressive performances for the yearsin which he notched three runner up spots in Kingston, Puerto Rico and Norway.

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