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Borel in line for top sports award

Shot putter Cleopatra Borel is in line to cop her fourth Sportswoman of the Year Award when the First Citizens Sports Foundation host its 2014 Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Awards at Queen’s Hall in St Ann’s, Port-of-Spain, on Friday.

She won the National Association of Athletics Administration (NAAA) nod to be the national sporting organisation’s ambassador in this category at the awards.

Four years ago, the champion athlete considered retiring from competitive sports. She had a change of heart, however, a decision that not only benefited the track and field star, but the national community, too.

Outstanding performances from Borel won her Sportswoman of the Year accolades in 2002, 2007 and 2010 respectively.

At the Central American and Caribbean Games in Mexico, last November, she won gold with a throw of 18.99 metres beating Cuba’s Yaniuvis Lopez (17.88 metres) and Sandra Lemos (17.50 metres) of Colombia.

What made her participation at the international event more memorable was the fact that it was her third gold medal at a CAC Games.

She registered a toss of 18.57 metres that placed her behind New Zealand’s shot put icon, Valerie Adams (19.88 metres) at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, to bring home silver.

These achievements added to the many chapters that epitomise Borel’s amazing ability to maintain her status as one of the world’s best female shot putters.

On her return home from these international meets last year, Borel was saluted as the T&T Olympic Committee’s Senior Sportswoman of the Year. In January, it was the NAAA’s turns to celebrate her with the honour of Senior Female Athlete for 2014.

She will take the spotlight at the FC Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award where she would be first celebrated as a nominee before the short list of athletes is announced and the winner declared.

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