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Lendore up to second in indoor ranks

Olympic 4x400m relay bronze medallist Deon Lendore has improved to second spot on the latest IAAF World Indoor men’s 400m Performance List. The Texas A&M University final year student moved up from third spot after his 45.34 seconds clocking to win the event at the Tyson invitational in Arkansas, on Friday.

American Najee Glass is ahead on the rankings with 45.34 with Lendore’s school-mate Grenadian Bralon Taplin just behind in third (45.39).

The Queen’s Royal College graduate lowered his season’s best time from 45.68. The 22-year-old holds the national indoor record of 45.03 seconds which he set last year (the quickest time in the world for 2014). Fellow Olympic relay bronze medallist Jarrin Solomon is at 54th after his 47.06 victory at the Don Kirby Invite in New Mexico on Saturday. Jereem Richards clocked 46.49 on 32 January but his time was not listed as he raced on an oversized track.

Michelle-Lee Ahye is the next highest ranked T&T athlete after Lendore at number three in the women’s 60m. Ahye moved into the top three after she raced to a new season’s best of 7.11 in finishing second at the Millrose Games in New York on Saturday.

The 2011 Pan American Junior 100m champion missed out on her one-year-old national record mark of 7.10 but has been improving all season. The four-time Carifta sprint queen opened her season in December with 7.23 and has lowered that mark to 7.16 and 7.15 before zooming to 7.11.

Kelly-Ann Baptiste is at 22nd with her 7.24 run in the heats at LSU High Performance Meet in Louisiana on Saturday. The 2011 World Championships 100m bronze medallist went on win the finals in 7.28 seconds in her first competition in close to two years.

Ahye is also 62nd in the women’s 200m with season opener clocking of 23.80 in Texas on December 13. Reyare Thomas ran 23.73 on Jan 30 but her time was posted on an oversized track.

Double Olympic and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Lalonde Gordon is also in the top ten, at number seven in the men’s 200m with his 20.71. Gordon set the time in taking silver at the David Hemery Invitational in Boston on Saturday.

Richards is next at 30th with a personal best and second place finish of 21.06 at the New Mexico Classic on 6 February. Kyle Greaux sits at 63rd with his 21.25 victory at the Gothan Cup in New York on January 16. It was a new indoor personal best for the Abilene Wildcats sprinter. Bahamian Shavez Hart leads the world 200m standing with 20.57.

Rondel Sorillo (6.57-15th-men’s 60m) and Sparkle Mc Knight (52.67-18th-women’s 400m) are into top twenty in their events. Sorillo’s time is a new personal best and was set in finishing second at the Rob Mc Cravy Memorial Meet in Kentucky, on 24 January. The World Relay silver medallist is ahead of five time World and Olympic medalist Marc Burns (93rd-6.70) and Jamol James (106th-6.71).

Veteran St Kitts and Nevis sprinter Kim Collins has the top time in the world of 6.48. The 38- year-old former World 100m champion raced to 6.48 seconds twice in February.

McKnight’s time was achieved in finishing third at the Razorback Invitational in Arizona on January 31. The 2013 NCAA outdoor 400m hurdles bronze medallist improved on her previous season’s best of 52.89 seconds set on January 17 which was the fastest in the world then. McKnight is ahead of 2008 World 400m hurdles silver medallist and national 400m flat record holder Janeil Bellille (40th-53.25).

National sprint hurdles record holder Mikel Thomas lies at 29th in the men’s 60m hurdles event with a personal best of 7.72 seconds established in finishing second at the New Mexico Classic on February 7, while Deandra Daniel is at 51st in the women’s high jump with her personal best of 1.85 metres. Daniel set the mark in winning her third straight Mid Eastern Athletic Conference high jump title in Maryland on Friday.

The Coppin State University student improved on her previous best of 1.84 set on February 7, which placed the Marabella North Secondary graduate at 61st on the previous rankings.

IAAF World indoor performance list

60m
Women: 1st Murielle Ahoure (CIV) 7.05, 2nd Dafne Schippers (NED) 7.09, 3rd Michelle-Lee Ahye (TTO) 7.11, 2nd-Millrose Games, New York, February 14, 22nd Kelly-Ann Baptiste (TTO) 7.24, 1h1-LSU High Performance Meet, Louisiana, February 14

Men: 1st Kim Collins (SKN) 6.48, 2nd Akeem Haynes (CAN)/Trell Kimmons (USA) 6.51, 15th Rondel Sorillo (TTO) 6.57 pb, 2nd-Rob Mc Cravy Memorial Meet, Lexington, January 24, 93rd Marc Burns (TTO), 2nd-Green and Gold Invite, Birmingham, January 24, 106th Jamol James (TTO) 6.71, 1st-PVCC Indoor Invitational, Valley, Pheonix, January 31

200m
Women: 1st Kyra Jefferson (USA) 22.81, 2nd Jenna Prandini (USA) 22.87, 3rd Kamaria Brown (USA) 22.97, 62nd Michell-Lee Ahye (TTO) 23.80, 2nd-Reveille Invitational, College Station, December 13 (Oversize track-Reyare Thomas (TTO) 23.73, January 30)

Men: 1st Shavez Hart (BAH) 20.57, 2nd Aaron Ernest (USA) 20.66, 3rd Andre De Grasse (CAN) 20.67, 7th Lalonde Gordon (TTO) 20.71-2nd David Hemery Invitational, Boston February 14, 30th Jereem Richards (TTO) 21.06, 2nd -New Mexico Classic, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 6, 63rd Kyle Greaux (TTO) 21.25pb, 1st-Gotham Cup, New York, January 16

400m
Women: 1st Courtney Okolo (USA) 51.35, 2nd Taylor Ellis-Watson (USA) 51.72, 3rd Shamier Little (USA) 51.92, 18th Sparkle McKnight (TTO) 52.67, 3rd-Razorback Invitational, Fayetteville, Arizona, January 31, 40th Janiel Bellille (TTO) 53.25, 3rd-Aggie Invitational, College Station Texas, February 7

Men: 1st Najee Glass (USA) 45.34, 2nd Deon Lendore (TTO) 45.38, 1st-Tyson Invitational, Arkansas, February 13, 3rd Bralon Taplin (GRN) 45.39, 54th Jarrin Solomon (TTO) 47.06, 1st-Don Kirby Invite, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 14 (Oversize track-Jereem Richards (TTO) 46.49, Texas, January 31

60m hurdles
Men: 1st Aleec Harris (USA) 7.50, 2nd Dimitri Bascou (FRA)/Orlando Ortega (CUB)/Jason Richardson (USA)/Ashton Eaton USA) 7.51, 29th Mikel Thomas (TTO) 7.72 pb, 2nd-New Mexico Classic, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 7

High jump
Women: 1st Kamila Licwinko (POL) 2.01, 2nd Mari Kuchina (RUS) 1.99, 3rd Airine Palsyte (LTU) 1.98, 51st Deandra Daniel (TTO) 1.85 pb, 1st-MEAC Indoor Champs, Landover, Maryland, February 13

4x400m
Women: 3rd University of Arkansas (Sparkle Mc Knight) 3:30.50 (oversize track), January 24

Men: 1st Texas A&M (Deon Lendore) 3:03.23, January 31?

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