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Ahye, Borel set for Shanghai meeting

Rachael Thomspon-King :: Trinidad Guardian :: 11.05.2017

Leading T&T athletes sprinter Michelle-Lee Ahye and shot putter Cleopatra Borel are listed on the provisional start list for the second IAAF Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, China on Saturday.

Ahye will race in the women's 100 metres event which will feature double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson, where two other Jamaicans are listed to compete in Veronica Campbell-Brown and Christania Williams. The others to face the starter are Americans Tori Bowie,Tianna Bartoletta and Morolake Akinosun, and Ivory Coast duo Murielle Ahoure and Marie-Josee Ta Lou.

Ahye will be making her first appearance this season in the Diamond meet while Thompson opened her account last week at Doha Diamond League opener, continuing her dominance with a season-best 22.19 seconds to easily win the women's 200m.

Borel, who competed last weekend, will contest the women's shot put against a field with a few familiar faces in Olympic bronze medallist Hungarian Anita Marton and Yuliya Leantsiuk of Belarus. Both Marton and Leantsiuk competed last week, finishing second and fourth, respectively. Borel was fifth.

Last week and on the weekend was also an eventful period for local track and field athletes.

On Saturday, both Renny Quow and Reyare Thomas starred on the track winning gold in their respective events at the Ole Miss Classic in Mississippi, in the US. Quow won the men's 400m, clocking 46.38 seconds while Thomas won gold in a time of 23.31 in the women's 200m.

Warren rewrites NJCAAA shot put record

At the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region I Track & Field Championships in Arizona, on Thursday, Portious Warren erased a 27-year-old record, when the Central Arizona College athlete threw a personal best 16.90m to grab gold in the women's shot put, to better the 16.86m NJCAA standard achieved in 1990 by Nigerian Grace Apiafi.

"I feel relieved and thankful. Mainly because since last year's outdoor season my coach and I have been trying to get the record. And to finally say that I have done it's just an amazing feeling," said Warren earlier this week.

She copped silver in the discus with a 41.84m toss and picked up another silver in the javelin at 38.79m. Warren was fourth in the hammer throw with a 48.39m effort.

Central Arizona College freshman Jeminise Parris scored double gold and a silver at the NJCAA Region I meet. She crossed first in the women's 100m hurdles in 13.64 seconds and in the 100m dash, clocking 11.84 and then finished runner-up in the 400m hurdles in 1:03.14.

Heptathlon gold for Roberts

At the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Outdoor Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, Khemani Roberts was at her best nabbing two medals, a gold and a silver.

The Coppin State University sophomore reached the top of the podium in the heptathlon, tallying 5,036 points.

Roberts was second in the women's high jump with her best leap at 1.71m. She also tackled the women's javelin and placed 10th (31.80m) and over on the track, she was part of the Coppin team that placed 10th in the 4x100m relay in 47.94.

Haysean Cowie-Clarke and Mark London, both of Coppin State, were also in action at the meet.

Cowie-Clarke, a senior, reached the men's 100m final after clocking 10.47 in the preliminary round. He crossed in a slower time of 10.52 to place sixth in the medal race.

He did not go away empty-handed though and he was part of the bronze-winning 4x100m relay team in 40.86.

London, a junior, was not as successful, placing 10th in the men's 800m in 1:52.69, not quick enough to advance to the final and his 4x400m relay unit was 10th in 3:17.25.

Gilding nabs shot put gold

Latoya Gilding of Jackson State University sealed gold in the women's shot put, with her best throw measuring 14.96m at the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Championships, in Alabama. Gilding also claimed a bronze in the discus with a 46.23m toss.

At the Tom Farrell Classic in St John's, Jamaica in New York, Monroe College freshman Dawnel Collymore secured silver in the women's 1,500m in 4:56.68.

In Houston, Texas, at Tom Tellez Invitational, Kendell Perouza, a Wiley College senior, crossed second in the men's 400m hurdles in 54.17.

His schoolmate Quinn-Lee Ralph competed in the men's 200m and the senior placed seventh in both the men's 100m (10.52) and 200m (21.24).

Across the state at the Texas Tech Masked Rider Open in Lubbock, Mauricia Prieto of South Plains was fifth in the women's 100m in 11.35 and got a silver medal, racing in the 4x100m (45.51).

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